Suprising Activities that are Considered Exercise?

Lindsay_1984

Video Games. I get a pretty good workout from "Just Dance" for Wii. Similar calorie burn as I get doing a 3.5mph walk.

vanguardfitness

lots of fidgeting at the computer chair. Probably those Wii video games that involve dancing

cassi9879

Wow! Of all the places I posted this question MFP had the most responses! Quite the array of answers too.

mel4bee

I chew gum lol and I play Just Dance on the wii. I think it is sooo much fun and it goes by soo fast.

Mr_Knight

Cleaning the bathroom (or anything really)

One of the reasons housewives in the 40s, 50s, 60s were thinner than we are today as a society is because they were constantly looking after the house, lifting things up, vacuuming. It really does burn a lot of cals.

The average US house in the 50s was around 900 square feet.

Now, always having to wash dishes and/or clothes by hand - yeah, that added up to some serious work!

cassi9879

On your journey, what funny/surprising activities have you found to burn calories?

I would say the TEF due to protein consumption. It's hard work.

What's TEF?

kgeyser

Saw "breast feeding " on a status update the other day...I plead the 5th, but I understand.:)

MFP doesn't have a way to calculate calories for nursing moms, so we have to do an estimate either in exercise or food to make sure we eat those calories back. I wish that counted as exercise during growth spurts.