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Counting yard work as exercise??????

selfmom5
Posts: 30 Member
The last couple of weeks I haven't had time to "workout" on my elliptical. It's spring and I have a HUGE garden. So I have been spending atleast 4 hrs outside a day working in it. It is a lot of hoeing, weeding, tilling, pulling up sticks ect... Saterday alone, I hoed between 20 acres of corn! I have only been logging half of my gardening time in, but should I log in all of it? It's so hard for me to say I am "exercising" when I am doing my garden work.... Lol I know it's hard work though!!! I lost 3 lbs last week

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Right there with you! Logged 4 hours with the weed eater today...wearing my heart rate monitor... 880 calories of cardio! Yay...!0
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I log half of my gardening time when it is not normal things I do. Like Friday I did a lot of weeding, I push mowed our lawn (we have a riding lawn mower too but I didn't use it), and I used the weedeater. I was at it for about 5 hours but I logged two hours of gardening.0
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Put it into MFP exercise.
Mowing with a motorised push mower comes in around 600 cals an hour.
Most weeding and lopping and digging has impressive calorie burn look it up.
Its all exercise.0 -
raked my front and back lawn for an hour yesterday and it was definitly work0
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I worked hard in my gardens today--up and down, raking, moving the full wheelbarrow, etc. You better believe I count it as exercise calories!!0
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Put it into MFP exercise.
Mowing with a motorised push mower comes in around 600 cals an hour.
Most weeding and lopping and digging has impressive calorie burn look it up.
Its all exercise.0 -
Hmmm . . . I've never hoed before (hah!), but it sounds kinda like shoveling snow. If I were you, if you don't normally do that, then I'd wear my HRM and input the cals into MFP. And then get a back massage!0
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I log half of my gardening time when it is not normal things I do. Like Friday I did a lot of weeding, I push mowed our lawn (we have a riding lawn mower too but I didn't use it), and I used the weedeater. I was at it for about 5 hours but I logged two hours of gardening.
Thats usually the way I do it also if heavy hoeing and shoveling moving dirt etc. I will log 1/2 the time spent.0 -
I do. using my HRM0
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I cross-checked some of the exercises listed in MFP with a different app that I have been using (daily burn tracker), and I noticed, that the calories for the activities are generously high.0
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Hoeing doesn't burn the calories people think it does.0
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It's OK to log it as a burn. You either log it as a burn, or if you do it on a regular basis, you set your activity level higher and don't log it. Either way the calories burned get counted, as they should be, because they are real.0
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Ok I will just continue to log in half my time..... And hoeing is MAJOR work around here! Bermuda and weeds are tuff buggers!! And not to mention I have 2 acres that is my "personal" garden....we compost a lot and I move a lot of dirt.... Carry 40lb bags around and throw lots of sticks. You want a good biggest loser workout? Drag/pull 4 hoses connected
you feel the burn lol!!
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