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    Midwest Exercises Need to Be Added

    Posts: 45 Member
    edited January 20 in Fitness and Exercise
    I just got done digging a drainage ditch to turn my driveway from a lake back in to some semblance of a drivable area. Of course I was going to log that on my exercises and when I looked it up, it wasn't there. ( I know, big shock 80 ) We need a Midwest exercise section on this site. LOL So, what exercises would you add? =)

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      Personally, I wouldn't add anything. If you feel you can't do an additional workout, that's fine. If you feel hungry, I'd add in an extr 100-200 calories if needed, but I wouldn't log that as exercise for me.
    • Posts: 685 Member
      picking corn?
    • Posts: 318 Member
      I just got done digging a drainage ditch to turn my driveway from a lake back in to some semblance of a drivable area. Of course I was going to log that on my exercises and when I looked it up, it wasn't there. ( I know, big shock 80 ) We need a Midwest exercise section on this site. LOL So, what exercises would you add? =)

      Hah! I'd add gathering branches from the trees that blew over in last night's storm, and walking from the furthest end of the parking lot to the entrance of Home Depot. Maybe in cardio? :wink:
    • Posts: 1,046 Member
      From the thread title, I was kinda hoping this was going to be about cow tipping. Although I have to admit that I was born and raised in Wisconsin, and I've yet to tip a single cow.
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      Hah! I'd add gathering branches from the trees that blew over in last night's storm, and walking from the furthest end of the parking lot to the entrance of Home Depot. Maybe in cardio? :wink:

      LOL . I purposely put my exercise level at moderate so when I do big stuff like this I get to add it. It's kind of like writing something down on my to do list just to check it off. =D
    • Posts: 141
      Personally, I wouldn't add anything. If you feel you can't do an additional workout, that's fine. If you feel hungry, I'd add in an extr 100-200 calories if needed, but I wouldn't log that as exercise for me.

      Do you normally dig drainage ditches by hand as part of your regular day? I suppose you have your activity level set to account for that so you wouldn't need to add it as exercise...better you than me :)

      Items to add:
      Sandbagging is always fun in the spring
      Spelunknig
      Changing from shorts to a winter coat and back into shorts on the same day is good exericise too.
    • Posts: 45 Member
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      Hah! I'd add gathering branches from the trees that blew over in last night's storm, and walking from the furthest end of the parking lot to the entrance of Home Depot. Maybe in cardio? :wink:

      LOL . I purposely put my excerise level at moderate so when I do big stuff like this I get to add it. It's kind of like writing something down on my to do list just to check it off. =D
    • Posts: 45 Member
      From the thread title, I was kinda hoping this was going to be about cow tipping. Although I have to admit that I was born and raised in Wisconsin, and I've yet to tip a single cow.


      haaa haaaaa. my brother did that in college. said it was pretty hilarious!
    • Posts: 141
      From the thread title, I was kinda hoping this was going to be about cow tipping. Although I have to admit that I was born and raised in Wisconsin, and I've yet to tip a single cow.

      That is because you know it would ruin the cheese! :)
    • Posts: 1,956 Member
      Personally, I wouldn't add anything. If you feel you can't do an additional workout, that's fine. If you feel hungry, I'd add in an extr 100-200 calories if needed, but I wouldn't log that as exercise for me.

      ^That

      But you could log it under "Yardwork" or create your own if you wore a HRM and title it "Ditch diggin' - to hide the bodies"
    • Posts: 141
      =)

      Do people not know what this means???
    • Posts: 187 Member
      Walking beans, splitting wood and anything involving planting new crops or tending animals. I'd probably mark it as some sort of calisthenics but that could just be the lazy way out.
    • Posts: 5 Member
      During winter, I definitely could use a calorie calculator for shoveling snow and scraping my windshield!
    • Posts: 446 Member
      corn detasseling? walking beans? mullet grooming?
    • Posts: 262 Member
      picking corn?

      We have machines that do that. Although we DO detassel corn by hand sometimes.
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      Do people not know what this means???

      If your from the mid west you do.

      I would like to add chipping 3 inches of ice off my drive and shoveling off the roof. No not part of my everyday routine.
    • Posts: 1,402 Member
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      LOL . I purposely put my exercise level at moderate so when I do big stuff like this I get to add it. It's kind of like writing something down on my to do list just to check it off. =D

      HAHA - I have soooo done that. Makes me feel like I have accomplished something.
    • Posts: 6,998 Member
      picking corn?

      Ha ha ha, and soybeans.
    • Posts: 45 Member
      you bet ! Shoveling huge piles of snow is some serious cardio
    • Posts: 624 Member
      Ha! It's actually a good point. I know a lot of people don't log stuff like this, but I honestly have no clue how many calories that must burn! Absolutely that counts as exercise!
    • Posts: 45 Member
      nice, I have not done the roof thing yet=)
    • Posts: 369 Member
      I also forgot that flipping ridge the snow plow deposits at the end of your driveway that is 4 foot high and wide.
    • Posts: 20 Member
      Back in the day, my brothers would have said bailing hay. Standing in the wagon and picking up, carrying, and stacking 100lb. bails all day long in the Indiana summer heat is definitely a workout.

      As far as the drainage ditch, I could use one, too. Although, our yard currently looks so much like a lake that I'm tempted to simply stock it with fish and call it a day.
    • Posts: 45 Member
      Ha! It's actually a good point. I know a lot of people don't log stuff like this, but I honestly have no clue how many calories that must burn! Absolutely that counts as exercise!

      I agree =)
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      ^That

      But you could log it under "Yardwork" or create your own if you wore a HRM and title it "Ditch diggin' - to hide the bodies"


      I don't know... Have you ever dug in the ground to this extent? This is far more strenuous than yard work. I wore my HRM shoveling snow a few months back. I burned almost three times what MFP calculated, and soil is heavier than snow...
    • Posts: 73 Member
      Hauling hay and/or feed
    • Posts: 45 Member
      corn detasseling? walking beans? mullet grooming?

      mullet grooming? come on now tsk tsk
    • Posts: 189 Member
      Shoveling snow and gardening are both a category in the exercise section... I have used both...
    • Posts: 1,402 Member
      Stone picking - walking
      Hay baling - boxing (all upper body movement)
      Shoveling manure - gardening
      Painting house/barn - circuit training
      shoveling snow (by hand) - walking and circuit training or if you are really bad at it, acrobatics, since you land on your backside as much as you accomplish the actual task.


      These are the equivalents I can come up with for things you don't do everyday but are DEFINITELY a workout.
    • Posts: 45 Member
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      Do you normally dig drainage ditches by hand as part of your regular day? I suppose you have your activity level set to account for that so you wouldn't need to add it as exercise...better you than me :)

      Items to add:
      Sandbagging is always fun in the spring
      Spulunknig
      Changing from shorts to a winter coat and back into shorts on the same day is good exericise too.

      spelunking is fun!

      Changing from shorts to a winter coat and back into shorts on the same day is good exericise too.
      LOL
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