Is it ok to count yard work....
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jlzrdking
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as exercise?
This past weekend I woked on breaking up and old sidewalk, using a jack hammer, then loading a wheel barrel with debris and making many trips up and down a hill to the street.
My heart rate was def up and thought this is good exercise too but I could not find anything on MFP to log yardwork as exercise.
Granted it's not a tough workout but I was curious to know if I had burned any calories.
Anyone have any advice or is this just wishful thinking??
I only got half the sidewalk done so there is more work to be done. :happy:
This past weekend I woked on breaking up and old sidewalk, using a jack hammer, then loading a wheel barrel with debris and making many trips up and down a hill to the street.
My heart rate was def up and thought this is good exercise too but I could not find anything on MFP to log yardwork as exercise.
Granted it's not a tough workout but I was curious to know if I had burned any calories.
Anyone have any advice or is this just wishful thinking??
I only got half the sidewalk done so there is more work to be done. :happy:
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I found that there are a lot of exercise-like things missing (African Dance, shopping... yes, shopping counts, at least for me :-) ). try adding it, and using this site to calculate your calories burned:
http://www.self.com/calculatorsprograms/calculators/caloriesburned/yard_work0 -
I've got a large yard, a push mower and live in the south.
So, yes, any time I mow the lawn it counts. :glasses:0 -
Hecky yes it is more then okay to count yard work! If your moving then your burning calories! I try to count everything I can I know there is a section for housework under exercises I'm pretty sure there is one for yard work as well! I'll bet you burned more calories doing yard work then you would have walking!0
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I've got a large yard, a push mower and live in the south.
So, yes, any time I mow the lawn it counts. :glasses:
me too!!0 -
yes yard work does count as long as you are breaking a sweat, just like doing some gardening as well.
you add how many minutes you done it then hit mild , moderate, or heavy exercise and it will calculate for you
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I saw "gardening" somewhere, so if THAT counts then what you did MUST!0
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I say add things that are out of the ordinary and you do quite a bit of work over an extended period of time. I would say you could probably liken it to some strength training exercise for maybe half the time you actually worked (better to underestimate than over).0
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I live in Wisconsin and we shovel SNOW! I had to add the exercise to the database for myself.0
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Good now when I finish with this sidwalk I will know how to enter into MFP.
And when yard mowing starts I will also enter that.
Thanks0
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