cleaning

ambertimmons21

Ok guys, I need your help. I normally spend 30 minutes or so a day lightly cleaning my house(laundry, dishes sweeping,ect.) But today I spent an hour and a half doing my weekly cleaning( vaccuuming, dusting, mopping,toilets, ect). Question is do I count those as excercise calories? I know that alot of you do, but I feel weird logging it as excercise even though it is hard work.

ambertimmons21

Ok guys, I need your help. I normally spend 30 minutes or so a day lightly cleaning my house(laundry, dishes sweeping,ect.) But today I spent an hour and a half doing my weekly cleaning( vaccuuming, dusting, mopping,toilets, ect). Question is do I count those as excercise calories? I know that alot of you do, but I feel weird logging it as excercise even though it is hard work.

lotusfromthemud

Anything you do every day is activity, not exercise.

So, my daily tidying up, I don't log. But, my weekly heavy-duty cleaning, I do. (I need incentive)

It's in the cardio log under "housework". I've worn my HRM, and I burn anywhere between 250-300 calories an hour, so it is work.

songbyrdsweet

I'd say it depends on your activity factor. If you chose sedentary, you can pretty much log anything as activity. If you chose something like lightly active, you'd have to just log exercise, because MFP adds extra calories assuming that you're on your feet more than a sedentary person. I chose sedentary because I like to manually add everything.

ambertimmons21

cool, thanks. I really need to get a hrm.

briblue72

The way I look at it, if I was doing it "before" and was gaining weight/staying the same, it wasn't helping in the battle of the bulge. I only long activity I do for the purpose of exercising... Just my 2 cents...