Ugh.

JulieR8480
JulieR8480 Posts: 3 Member
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Today while it’s a gazillion degrees outside - I decided today was the day my 13 yr old and I would clean her club house in the barn loft. No breeze / no AC and limited fans. We sweated to ABBA for 45 min . Drenched and accomplished it was a good fun workout . Not sure how to tag it in my exercise.

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,017 Member
    Temperature has not really an influence on how many calories you burned. You just sweated more and lost a lot of fluid. How would you log this if you'd done this in a normal temperature room?
  • JBanx256
    JBanx256 Posts: 1,479 Member
    is there an entry for "yardwork" or something similar? Maybe?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,881 Member
    In the MFP cardiovascular exercise database, consider:

    "Cleaning, heavy, vigorous effort"
    or
    "Cleaning, light, moderate effort"
    or
    "Moving household items, carrying boxes"
    or
    "Moving household items, boxes, upstairs"

    . . . whichever sounds the most like what you did, or split the time among some of those if it seems more realistic?

    Since this is (presumably) a thing you don't do very often, just getting in the ballpark is fine, no need to agonize over being exactly exact. Just make your best guess and go on with life.

    Yirara is right, the heat makes it more exhausting (good hydration - maybe electrolytes - would help, even after the fact if you didn't drink during) . . . but it sadly doesn't make the activity burn any more calories than if done in more comfortable conditions.

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