how many calories burned staking wood.

chermath66

My husband and I are cutting wood for the winter and was wondering how do I figure how many calories I am burning. There isn't a category for this in the list. Can anyone help me please?

sarahkatara

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

There is a "Chop Wood" exercise choice. enter weight and time for each exercise you're curious about. it will most likely overestimate by at least a little bit but i have found it's one of the more accurate internet calculators when i've compared with my heart rate monitor readout. Good luck!

californiagirl2012

We do this every year too. We cut and stack our own wood. I would just enter it under cardio "strength training".

I ignore exercise calories anyway so the exercise log is just to track time spent exercising for me. Exercise calories are highly over rated. You can't exercise away eating too much food. I learned this the hard way most of my life running marathon after marathon (and lifting) and not being able to lose weight and in fact continued to gain year after year. And I don't pig out, binge, snack mindlessly, eat out of boredom, etc, but the portion sizes are too big for a small person like me. (well I wasn't small when I weighed over 170 lbs at 51'0"!)

Anyway I found what worked for me was separating out the two things:

Eat less to lose weight
Exercise to maintain or build lean body mass
end of story.

Well, it did work for me. I am the fittest, leanest, strongest, and most muscular I've ever been in my life at age 51 and I'm healthy and don't get sick and have long endurance. Doesn't feel like starvation mode to me. Can you build muscle like I did while supposedly being in starvation mode?

wendymaci

Invest in a good heart rate monitor then you'll know how many calories you're burning doing things that aren't listed. Also, many of the things listed are quite a bit off in my opinion.

chermath66

Thanks for the help. I usually don't log in my exercise until the end of the day. I try to stay at or below my calories before exercise. Exercise calories are just bonus.

ahamm002

Chopping wood burns is great exercise. You can look up the calories burned doing it on multiple websites.

Jynus

Invest in a good heart rate monitor then you'll know how many calories you're burning doing things that aren't listed. Also, many of the things listed are quite a bit off in my opinion.

HRM are only accurate for cardio exercise. chopping wood is NOT cardio. the pathways for a chop are more ATP-CP related.