Snowshoeing

Frenchgrad

Hi everyone! I have a quick question I’m hoping you all can help me with. I just spent about 2 hours snowshoeing. Totally fun, btw. My question is: should I log it as separate exercise even though my FitBit tracked my steps? Would it be double dipping, considering the steps are already counted?

Thanks for your help!

lorrpb

It's counted in your steps. Hope you had fun!

ronocnikral

also depends, did you wallow through waist deep snow? or were you on a trenched out path?

Frenchgrad

lorrpb wrote: »

It's counted in your steps. Hope you had fun!

Yeah, I had that feeling. Thanks!

ronocnikral wrote: »

also depends, did you wallow through waist deep snow? or were you on a trenched out path?

Definitely not waist deep. There’s a big snowstorm right now and I was out in it, but I was following a snowed over paved trail.

onward1

Lucky you, fresh snow! I like to go off trail and make fresh tracks when I can, it seems like more work, so I imagine, or hope, I'm burning more calories. We're in desperate need of snow at the moment here in Vermont, so yeah, lucky you.......have fun!

Vladimirnapkin

That's way harder than just "stepping," but I wouldn't know how to account for it!

Tacklewasher

MFP Has an entry for it.


It's close to cals burnt running for me.

Frenchgrad

Tacklewasher wrote: »

MFP Has an entry for it.


It's close to cals burnt running for me.

I believe that! I was so completely starving when I got home that day that I made dinner right away. I didn’t log anything in addition to my steps. It looked like I got about 10k just from snowshoeing, so I ended up with a ton of “extra” calories. I was so tired that I fell asleep on the couch before I could eat them all, lol!

It was definitely strenuous, mostly because of the fresh snow; but my friend & I were also going at a pretty quick pace. The snowstorm dumped about 6 inches on us; so combined with the snowfall we got last Thursday, about a foot fell in 2 days. This week we’re gonna have 40s, so a lot of it will melt.