Is this real life? (Exercise Database)

tino124

There are categories for "Cooking", "Music" and "Mild Stretching" but nothing for Sprints, Hills, HIIT, or any very intense activity.

Seriously? No wonder people can't lose weight. Brb, burning 700 calories playing the piano, going to reward myself with a bag of chips.

And I'm aware I can create my own exercises, I just think the default choices are absolutely ridiculous.

xxbookwormbabexx

Agreed!
I think that only activities intended to be exercise should be logged.

darrensurrey

Haha, you really can add piano! HIIT piano? Flight of the bumble bee, 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off.

3foldchord

BBQ CHIPS OR SALT& VINEGAR ?

LeggyAmericanGirl

There are categories for "Cooking", "Music" and "Mild Stretching" but nothing for Sprints, Hills, HIIT, or any very intense activity.

Seriously? No wonder people can't lose weight. Brb, burning 700 calories playing the piano, going to reward myself with a bag of chips.

And I'm aware I can create my own exercises, I just think the default choices are absolutely ridiculous.

Love this. The food preparation one kills me. I unfriended this chick she daily logged 1000 calories burned for food preparation. Seriously.

besaro

"people can't lose weight."? IDK about you, but I am, and I see lots of before and after success stories.

invisibubble

This bugs the crap out of me as well.

gigiangelique

There are categories for "Cooking", "Music" and "Mild Stretching" but nothing for Sprints, Hills, HIIT, or any very intense activity.

Seriously? No wonder people can't lose weight. Brb, burning 700 calories playing the piano, going to reward myself with a bag of chips.

And I'm aware I can create my own exercises, I just think the default choices are absolutely ridiculous.

right! i dont count cleaning or shopping ever thats just dumb.

VelociMama

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jboccio90

so can i count blow drying my hair then?

besaro

so can i count blow drying my hair then?

if you want.

teenio7

(username) burned 656 calories doing 175 minutes of cardio exercises, including "Music playing, piano, organ, violin, trumpet"

haha if that's true, I should really learn how to play...

tino124

I'm going to petition MFP to include Remote (Changing Channels) as their next exercise to add to the database.

/facepalm

FattieBabs

Hi guys, I DO play the violin and the only sweat I break out is when I have a difficult solo to play in a theatre full of people. I really wish I DID burn up those cals, it might make me do more practice!! Music, late nights and curries and parties with cast and crew are a surefire way to put on weight over a period of time but I had had a lot of fun\1. I am now paying the price and trying to lose it!! I have a show coming up soon so, as an experiment, will eat up to my cal level but do no exercise, apart from playing violin, and see if I lose any weight. Theoretically I should lose more than my weekly assigned rate. All for the sake of scientific research! I will let you know how I get on...

LoriLou67

As a musician, I do log rehearsal. I don't eat those calories back, but I do log it as an activity. It is not part of my daily routine (unfortunately), there are muscles being used (I play woodwind instruments), and it is good for my brain. It does not take the place of cardio workout or strength training, nor do I use it as an excuse to dive into a bag of anything. Don't knock it.

Keiko385

(username) burned 656 calories doing 175 minutes of cardio exercises, including "Music playing, piano, organ, violin, trumpet"

haha if that's true, I should really learn how to play...

If he/she was practicing with the marching band it is possible

ClementineGeorg

right! i dont count cleaning or shopping ever thats just dumb.

People that cook many hours a day on a regular basis can just state they have a „Lightly active” lifestyle. That is like having a job that implies standing most work hours. If people are „Sedentary” and log cleaning and cooking this may be ok, but if people are at least „Lightly active” they should not log these small thing, because that is included in being active.

But there always are exceptions.
Doing a whole day cleaning around the house, moving funrniture and many hard things that occur rarely... someone could log this.
Or cooking a 4-6 hours for a family reunion, besides being active like in „normal days”.

needamulligan

"people can't lose weight."? IDK about you, but I am, and I see lots of before and after success stories.

Me too.

My biggest issue is that every single exercise I've entered is WAY overstated when I compare it to my HRM. That might by more of the reason that progress slows, not how you create your calorie deficit.

LorinaLynn

Jerry Lee Lewis could lose weight playing a piano.

darrensurrey

Well, much to the amusement of my Friends, I included "humping" in today's exercise log. My parents needed some furniture moving. :bigsmile:

I don't intend to eat the calories back, mind... purely added it for amusement value because I am an attention *kitten*. :happy:

cheninaerin

I agree to some extent, but I also clean really vigorously... As in I purposefully turn it into a workout and sweat my butt off doing it... So I log half of what I do on those days ;D

cheninaerin

(username) burned 656 calories doing 175 minutes of cardio exercises, including "Music playing, piano, organ, violin, trumpet"

haha if that's true, I should really learn how to play...

If he/she was practicing with the marching band it is possible

More than possible, probable- my boyfriend is in college marching band, its hard work!

jwstew007

After reading the title, I was expecting a queen sing a long..

or is this just a fantasy

adietz12

I wish Les Mills classes were listed. I work out in them all the time. I also feel the calorie counts listed here for exercise are way too high. The best sense of the reality is with a heart rate monitor.

_SABOTEUR_

Whatever the exercise is I only log half the time on here because I feel the amount of calories they suggest you've burned is way too much. For instance, I swim for 90 minutes and it is vigorous (I swim 4 sets of medley and then break for 2 mins and go again). If I put that into the exercise database it would suggest i have burned over 1500 cals. If I ate those back it would almost double my food intake...

I usually go by the rule that no matter how much exercise I've done I only eat a max of an extra 15% calorie-wise.

stephdeeable

I log 1000 calories burned every time I type a post.

DamnImASexyBitch

Who cares? Honestly there is so much whining about what others are and aren't doing to lose weight. If they want to log every single thing they do through out the day and attempt to give themselves credit they are only hurting themselves. It doesn't effect you and your weightloss journey.

invisibubble

I will iterate at this point that this bugs me because there are NO listings for many recognised forms of what is considered cardiovascular exercise.

That and the calorie count for most is buggered, I do wish they'd put up resources for more accurate calorie counts for people who don't know. Or at least give their odd algorithms so people can tell it's likely quite off.

rlmadrid

(username) burned 656 calories doing 175 minutes of cardio exercises, including "Music playing, piano, organ, violin, trumpet"

haha if that's true, I should really learn how to play...

If he/she was practicing with the marching band it is possible

Maybe they were playing all four instruments at once? I'd say that is log-able.

KRobertson36

Just my thought I would add anything which is outside your norm. I know one of my friends bangs away on the drum and lost weight doing it. granted he did it for hrs at a time, but hey. I would say if you never cook and begin cooking go for it. I know before when I ran a restaurant I spent a good amount of cal cooking. Why should that be taken away from people?

When I joined MFP I was under the impression this assisted people in a life change. From some people getting up and cleaning walking while shopping may be forms of exercise for those people. This site if to help people. If for you cooking or cleaning doesn't do it then don't log it. I know in my band geek days playing the trombone took some energy. I haven't played in many years "IF" I decided to play again for a little while I might log those. Again outside my normal daily activity.

On another note....if you ride a exercise bike every day at what point do you stop logging it because it became a part of your normal routine? Just some food for thought.
Just my thoughts

soulfulsally

At first I was like, yeah that's strange to log playing the piano. But maybe playing piano is a chore to that person, so logging the calorie burn = motivation to practice. Might be the same for people who log cooking and cleaning. I log yoga and pilates even though MFP lists them as only 42 calories burned per 10 minutes. Not really worth logging from a calorie burn standpoint (I do work up a sweat though), but logging gives me extra motivation to keep doing exercises I don't particularly like.