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Spent 30mins moving boxes.. I burnt 398 calories?

Aubshmee
Aubshmee Posts: 14
edited February 7 in Health and Weight Loss
Yeah, okay.

Everywhere I've gone on the internet says that I would have lost 300+ calories for merely moving boxes around for a half hour? Is this really right?

If this is a bunch of bologna, what would be the range of calories actually burnt? The boxes were kind of heavy and I did sweat a bit, but I don't think it was 398 calories worth of sweat.

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  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
    For weird things that involved effort, but not a lot, I usually just use walking, 2mph and put the time down.
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    You might be able to somewhat of an estimate if you used a heart rate monitor. But other than that, how can they possibly know? You could have been moving empty boxes! LOL
  • _KitKat_
    _KitKat_ Posts: 1,066 Member
    I would think that it is an over estimate (1/2 hour of intense circuit training only burns about 335 calories for me), if I do a lot of heavy activity outside of my normal day for 4-5 hours, I log it as a half hour of cleaning about 140 calories or so. Most of the time I just don't log it at all.
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    I probably wouldn't even log it.
  • Cindyinpg
    Cindyinpg Posts: 3,902 Member
    Yeah, not so much. I move boxes, (putting away a liquor order) all the time and unfortunately in my case as per my Bodymedia, it only burns about 4 or 5 calories a minute, at best, even working hard. Like all activity, it will depend on your size and fitness level. Logging it as walking is probably a good choice.
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