housework

reenie2013
reenie2013 Posts: 8 Member
edited November 2023 in Getting Started
In exchange for my partner doing the bulk of things I dislike, such as shopping, I do the bulk of housecleaning.

My share of the big weekly house turnout after yoga on Sat takes a good 3 hours. Aside from Sunday, my long run and big biking day, when I might also chuck in an after dinner hour's walk, my heftiest exercise day is Saturday (90 mins yoga, 30mins bike, 3hours cleaning, 1hour walking)

So, I was a bit surprised that there's no provision on MFP for calories burnt doing housework. I put it as light gardening, because I reckon that eg. pushing a vacuum cleaner uses about the same energy as pushing a lawnmower, but it made me wonder whether this is a case of traditional "women's work" being under-valued? I mean gardening (traditional "man's work") counts!

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  • simplycorey
    simplycorey Posts: 721 Member
    MFP has it under cleaning. ;)
  • jessspurr
    jessspurr Posts: 258 Member
    bump because I want to read later :)
  • snazzyjazzy21
    snazzyjazzy21 Posts: 1,298 Member
    There's a list in cardio for cleaning, both light and vigorous? It has nothing to do with gender roles and everything to do with what you call it.
  • jessspurr
    jessspurr Posts: 258 Member
    Gardening is traditionally "man's work"?
  • gigglesinthesun
    gigglesinthesun Posts: 860 Member
    be aware though that in the MFP database it most likely overestimates the calories burnt. Good luck :-)
  • Restybaby2012
    Restybaby2012 Posts: 568 Member
    In exchange for my partner doing the bulk of things I dislike, such as shopping, I do the bulk of housecleaning.

    My share of the big weekly house turnout after yoga on Sat takes a good 3 hours. Aside from Sunday, my long run and big biking day, when I might also chuck in an after dinner hour's walk, my heftiest exercise day is Saturday (90 mins yoga, 30mins bike, 3hours cleaning, 1hour walking)

    So, I was a bit surprised that there's no provision on MFP for calories burnt doing housework. I put it as light gardening, because I reckon that eg. pushing a vacuum cleaner uses about the same energy as pushing a lawnmower, but it made me wonder whether this is a case of traditional "women's work" being under-valued? I mean gardening (traditional "man's work") counts!

    Here's a link or two......take a peek and see what you find for calories burned. Im considerably disabled and cant do the workout things most of ya do so I have to improvise. I figure if I can work up a sweat and keep busy, I gotta be burning some calories somehow.

    http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

    http://www.my-calorie-counter.com/Activity_Calorie_Calculator.asp
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