Scrapping wallpaper and popcorn ceiling - calories?

morethanjustamomto4

:-) Before you ask, I did look these topics up in the search and didn't find any decent answers. Looking on line I found sites that said you can burn 200-275 calories an hour PAINTING in the house. I'm wondering how many calories I might have burned stripping wallpaper in my friends house and scrapping her popcorn ceiling down. I did that instead of going out and riding my bike. Any thoughts or a place I can look to figure out the calories used in those two activities? If I have to guess I want to be conservative with it but don't want to jip myself either. We have worked almost 3.5 hours so far.

OOPS, yes I see my spelling error just can't fix the topic title. Sorry! lol

HeidiCooksSupper

This is a sympathy response but with little that will help you -- but those two activities are so annoying, you should get double whatever someone comes up with!

Here are some sites that calculate for related stuff:

http://www.my-calorie-counter.com/Calories_Burned/home-repair-painting-papering-plastering-scraping-inside-house-hanging-sheet-rock-remodeling.asp

http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-burned-painting-a129

http://calorielab.com/burned/?mo=ac&ac=06160&ti=Painting,+papering,+plastering,+scraping,+inside+house,+hanging+sheet+rock,+remodeling&q=&wt=150&un=lb&kg=68

They all seem to make different assumptions and come up with different figures. I just googled 'calories scraping' and got a whole mess of links.

morethanjustamomto4

This is a sympathy response but with little that will help you -- but those two activities are so annoying, you should get double whatever someone comes up with!

I know, right?! LOL Maybe I should get "extra" burned calories because it wasn't even my house. :-) I really liked that first site you listed. It says I should have burned 622 calories for the three hours! Some how, unfortunately, that just didn't seem right. :-) I guess if I'm going to be conservative I'll say 450 for three hours. Maybe that will work.

phjorg1

All counters include BMR. The amount of burn you get over that would be 2-3cal/min tops on such a low impact activity.

Oh, and hrm is useless for activity such as this. It will give an inflated number.