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Shoveling Snow How To Calculate

Live_To_Win
Live_To_Win Posts: 340 Member
edited February 13 in Fitness and Exercise
I spent an hour moving very heavy snow earlier, and entered it as calisthenics / vigorous (push ups/sit ups) . Is that the correct thing to put it under.. Since I am going to go out now and spend another 2 hours doing more I would like to know if I am documenting it correctly cause I am starving and had a largish lunch.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

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  • Makoce
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
    There's snow shoveling in the cardio database.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    Yep, it's in the DB. The number will be inflated though I am sure. If it gives you something like 600 calories, it's most likely incorrect.
  • superraachel
    superraachel Posts: 106 Member
    The plow truck came by today and added a 30" high x 36" wide pile of heavy packed boulder snow to the end of my driveway today, so I had to shovel. Not cool, plow truck, not cool. I wore my HRM to shovel and compared it to the database's reading. The database was actually under my HRM by 5%. And I never get actual HRM values lower than what the database projects. Granted, I was drenched in sweat and had to peel off my coat when I got inside.
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