I am able to log in the minutes mowing my yard?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,585 Member

    You can log it in the Cardiovascular exercise area as either "Mowing lawn, general" or "Mowing lawn, riding mower", whichever applies best.

    FWIW: Many of us who've been here for a long time avoid logging as exercise things that are routine home chores that we do regularly on repeat - not necessarily daily, but on a regular schedule. Instead, we consider those things when we pick our MFP "activity level" setting.

    Any MFP activity level setting assumes a certain amount of daily life movement, like home chores, grocery shopping, cleaning, etc. If we log those things as exercise, too, there's a risk of double-counting activity calories. If something is major and not routine, we'd maybe log it.

    For example, I wouldn't log my regular house cleaning or basic weekly-ish yard work like watering plants or light weeding, but I would log it as exercise if I spent multiple hours one rare Spring weekend cleaning the attic moving boxes and furniture around; or if I dug a whole new garden bed. Those would be major and unusual.

    It's up to you to define what's normal stuff you should consider when setting your activity level vs. what to log separately as exercise, of course. I'm simply suggesting thinking carefully about it to avoid double-counting activity, because it's can be easy to overshoot or undershoot calorie goal in real life while hitting it on paper, if we mis-estimate our activity/exercise.

    Best wishes!

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