Moving

cmacphee3

Does anyone know a more accurate number of calories burned by moving furniture and boxes? I spent 3 solid hours yesterday lifting boxes and furniture up stairs, through the house, loaded into a truck and then unloaded into the new place yesterday. I thought I'd take a look at what that would burn, but it says for 3 hours (It took 4 hours, I took an hour off for driving and breaks) that I burned more than 2000 calories! I was lifting things that were very heavy to me and I am sore today, but I didn't sweat as much as I do while running.

I know many people do not log calories burned for things they do that are not actual exercise, but I had to skip my routine today because of soreness from moving, so I'd like to know if I at least burned a decent number of calories yesterday.

Thanks in advance.

healthynotthin

What did you use to record your calories? Which exercise? If you want to record a modest amount of exercise but acknowledge that you still moved a heck of a lot, you can use "cleaning, light, moderate effort" or "heavy, vigorous effort" (each between 400-500 calories burned for 180 minutes). Moving household items says burning anywhere between 900-1300 per 180 minutes, though, so I'm not sure where you got 2,000 from. Congratulations on the active day though!

laarae

It's not exact but I would say that qualifies as cleaning-heavy

cmacphee3

What did you use to record your calories? Which exercise? If you want to record a modest amount of exercise but acknowledge that you still moved a heck of a lot, you can use "cleaning, light, moderate effort" or "heavy, vigorous effort" (each between 400-500 calories burned for 180 minutes). Moving household items says burning anywhere between 900-1300 per 180 minutes, though, so I'm not sure where you got 2,000 from. Congratulations on the active day though!

If you look up moving, there is moving furniture which was 1793 for 3 hours and Moving boxes was 2092 for 3 hours. It is over 2600 for moving boxes upstairs! But obviously I was not only moving boxes upstairs for 3 hours.

In any case, I think that your idea with using heavy cleaning

cmacphee3

What did you use to record your calories? Which exercise? If you want to record a modest amount of exercise but acknowledge that you still moved a heck of a lot, you can use "cleaning, light, moderate effort" or "heavy, vigorous effort" (each between 400-500 calories burned for 180 minutes). Moving household items says burning anywhere between 900-1300 per 180 minutes, though, so I'm not sure where you got 2,000 from. Congratulations on the active day though!

Also, i forgot to ask, could the calorie burn be so high for me because I'm set on sedentary and I'm a lot heavier than you maybe? Do they adjust burn for weight?

cmacphee3

It's not exact but I would say that qualifies as cleaning-heavy

Yeah, at my weight it seems 3 hours of heavy cleaning is 896 calories burned, which is more reasonable than the 2062 it says I burned for moving boxes!