cal burned by housework

pixymom1963

Does anyone have any idea how to judge calories burnd by cleaning house. Vaccuming, laundry, dishes, mopping....that sort of thing.

magickclaire

you can put it through your exercises under light cleaning I believe : D

AmyJopp

It is listed in the database im sure.....under cleaning .......moderate......light.......vigorous

4lafz

It's in the exercise database - quite a few people use it (I don't because I cleaned before). Calories burned are quite high on the MFP estimates (at least for me - according to my HRM)

SandyBaldwin

Gardening too? Like, all day, sweating like a pig gardening? Mowing a huge sloping lawn?

jenneyd

I use the data base, and my oh my, you can burn a nice amount of calories doing housework, especially when it is vigorous, heavy, like moving the sofa to clean under it lol

pixymom1963

Thanks guys! You all rock!