How many calories?

pkfrankel
pkfrankel Posts: 171 Member
edited December 18 in Fitness and Exercise
Yesterday I spent four hours digging a small pond, hauling the dirt by wheelbarrow about twenty five yards, hauling limestone rocks (avg weight 20 pounds) and building a 20 foot retaining wall. Heart rate probably never rose above 100 bpm.

Any guess on how many calories that may have burned?

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  • kristenlees122
    kristenlees122 Posts: 242
    no idea, but have you had a look for like online calculators? i think i found once where you can input your height and weight and then the exercise you did, i dont know what you would put though lol :) just google, see if you have any luck
  • juliee274
    juliee274 Posts: 124 Member
    There is an option under exercise for "gardening, general." That said, MFP usually is generous in their calorie give in all exercises, but it sounds like you were working hard. Your heart rate doesn't have to raise high to burn calories! Your workout was more equivalent to strength training. I usually take 1/2 to 2/3 of their suggested calories based on how hard I was working.
  • pkfrankel
    pkfrankel Posts: 171 Member
    I found a study that says a 185 pound person burns 222 calories in 30 minutes. I imagine that hauling rocks in a wheelbarrow is similar. I guess that would equate to about 1600 calories. As long as I burned the excess calories from Friday's over indulgence.
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