Can I count this??/

kountrygrl27

Today I spent 7 and 1/2 hours assembling a storage building. Can this count for my exercise and how would I list it,,,,,

dragonbug300

I'd say yes if you've listed your lifestyle as 'sedenetary'. I would only log half of the hours, though, as heavy duty cleaning.

JennsLosing

i wouldnt bother logging that...unless you were cutting down trees and chopping your own wood...thats just me though.

kountrygrl27

well that stinks... I worked up a sweat for nothing....

buttercup62999

for the question would be did I sweat and get my heart rate up? Doing something like that can be very physical, and would burn calories!

AngBenM

Honestly, if you worked up a sweat and were sweating then you definately burned something. I agree with the 1st post, I would track it as cleaning and only record 1/2 of it.

puggleperson

You need a heart rate monitor to tell you how many calories you burned for this type of thing

ShrinkinMel

I record half of heavy cleaning or laborious work.

When I worked in a meat packaging plant I worked so hard that I dropped 15 lbs in the first couple months working there with ZERO change in my diet. It was not only burning calories it was building muscle, 7-10 lb meats lifted continuously through 8 hours will do that.

sarahsmom1

Was it heavy, wood, metal plastic depends what it was made of I have put the plastic ones together I'd say no. If you are actually building from the ground up out of wood I would say maybe half the time lifting and toting wood is heavy if its a metal shed and you built the flooring I"d say about 2 hrs. We it small or big that matters also.

uubulldawg06

i agree with the other two. I would log half the hours as heavy duty cleaning.

MelissaL582

Honestly, if you worked up a sweat and were sweating then you definately burned something. I agree with the 1st post, I would track it as cleaning and only record 1/2 of it.

I agree!

kountrygrl27

it was A metal 10x8 shed.....