Pushing a triple stroller? Walking and jogging

mkakids

I cant seem to find info on anything more than a single stroller. I push my almost 6year old, 4 year old and 2year old who have a combined weight of 105lbs, not including the stroller weight.

When I jog with them, im not going fast, about a 12min mile. Walking is a brisk pace, not a stroll.

Any idea where I can find that info?

DragonSquatter

I'm not sure you'll find that specifically, but you can log it as "pushing stroller" (do a search for this, and it'll come up).

MinMin97

Maybe your exercise could be compared to walking at an incline, or hiking?
If you are getting a pretty good workout in (winded, sweating), you might want to log it as hiking carrying<10lb load It burns 261 cals in 30min.

mkakids

Most online calculators use 25lbs as the base for figuring calories burned with a single stroller and they dont let you input speed. Im pushing 100lbs more than that and I dont know if they are assuming a slow stroll or brisk walk, etc...

DragonSquatter

Most online calculators use 25lbs as the base for figuring calories burned with a single stroller and they dont let you input speed. Im pushing 100lbs more than that and I dont know if they are assuming a slow stroll or brisk walk, etc...

Yeah, that's going to be tough. Maybe you can add 50% time to it to add a few more calories to the burn, but it's going to be hard to estimate that kind of thing.

bellaamor30

I am hoping someone's answers this for u, I push a double stroller with my kids totalling 75 pounds. I feel like I'm getting a decent workout in def more sweaty and winded then when its just me, and going up hills with them gets my heart rate up.

BeachIron

I've found that MFP tends to overestimate calorie burns, so just stick with the regular stroller version and call it a day.

Keep in mind that all of these calculations produce estimates that are virtually guaranteed to be either high or low for you. So after you calculate your daily calorie intake, exercise calories burned, and weighed and measured your food intake for the day, you have a multitude of estimates their. The trick is to be brutally honest with yourself and conservative with these numbers, track everything, and adjust every couple of months as necessary.

And to be honest, after tracking on MFP for about a year, I got tired of estimating calorie burns and have gone to a fixed number that I use and adjust for losing and gaining weight. Either way works, but it's a matter of finding what works for you.

danasings

I used "Pushing a Stroller" until I got a HRM and found out that the MFP entry for that way underestimated my calorie burn. I push a double stroller with two boys (4 and 2.5 years old) in it, so I know it's a workout! And since you're pushing three kids, whew!

ETA: I am a 145-150 pound, 5'6" female and would burn between 175-200 calories for a decently-paced 30 minute walk (uphill one way, downhill the other) according to my HRM. Also, I push about 75-85 pounds with the weight of the stroller, two boys, and groceries in the bottom of the stroller on the walk home.

rml_16

I used "Pushing a Stroller" until I got a HRM and found out that the MFP entry for that way underestimated my calorie burn. I push a double stroller with two boys (4 and 2.5 years old) in it, so I know it's a workout! And since you're pushing three kids, whew!

ETA: I am a 145-150 pound, 5'6" female and would burn between 175-200 calories for a decently-paced 30 minute walk (uphill one way, downhill the other) according to my HRM. Also, I push about 75-85 pounds with the weight of the stroller, two boys, and groceries in the bottom of the stroller on the walk home.

I'm 5'3" and about that weight and that's what I burn not pushing a stroller.

RunnerElizabeth

I run pushing a jogging stroller (bob ironman 28lbs, 3.5 yearold 40lbs also random cargo). The kid slows me down, for an 8 or 9 mile run I average between 10:30 and 11:15 per mile. Where I have read to add the amount of calories burned pushing a stroller to the amount of calories I burn running, after seeing that it's over 1000 calories, I decided that probably isn't accurate. Pushing the stroller running is hard and I sweat like crazy but it doesn't get my heart pumping the same way the same run at a faster speed does. I perfer to consider the stroller bonus and just log the running. And if I eat back my excercise calories and I'm still a little hungry, I grab a hanful of nuts and call it a day.

You could always try a HRM, you'd get a more accurate picture that way.