Counting yard work as exercise??????

selfmom5

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

h7463

Right there with you! Logged 4 hours with the weed eater today...wearing my heart rate monitor... 880 calories of cardio! Yay...!

kmbweber2014

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.

Roaringgael

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.

suncluster

raked my front and back lawn for an hour yesterday and it was definitly work

LauriePar

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!!

h7463

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.

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. Most of activities that I like to track, have not even be close to what I tracked for my body stats with the heart rate monitor. I would take the numbers with a grain of...well...potting soil... :happy:

HikeCyclist

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!

Tigg_er

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.

jerber160

I do. using my HRM

elyelyse

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.

Yup, MFPs calorie burn numbers are. Notoriously high. I typically log only 75% or less of my time.

ew_david

Hoeing doesn't burn the calories people think it does.

Hadabetter

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.

selfmom5

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!!