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Mogwai1985
Mogwai1985 Posts: 31
in Fitness and Exercise
Would you consider vacuuming to be light, moderate effort or heavy, vigorous effort?

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  • camrunner
    camrunner Posts: 363
    I'm gonna go with light, unless MC Escher designed your house.
  • Jeliwood
    Jeliwood Posts: 61
    I think it would depend on the size of the space you're doing, the amount of time you're doing it, and the type of vaccuum you have. If you're getting down on your hands and knees and using the hose to get the baseboards of the hand attachments to clean vents and such then I'd say heavy. If just normal one room, light.
  • amruden
    amruden Posts: 228 Member
    Did your Heart rate go up?
    how fast did you push the vacuum?
    How long did you do it?

    Personally I would not even count it!
  • Mogwai1985
    Mogwai1985 Posts: 31
    The only reason I do count it is due to the fact that I live in a 2 story house with a converted basement (Basement carpeting in the bedroom, living room and "play room"). I always end up moving tables, chairs ad recliners to clean. I don't think my heart rate increases all that much, it always takes me at least 60 minutes to do the full house (7 fully carpeted rooms, 2 hallways, 5 rooms with area rugs, 2 full flights of stairs).
  • julialla
    julialla Posts: 232 Member
    I have a big old house with a ton of steps and furniture--it takes at least 6 hours to clean when it isn't "that messy." Even then, if I were to some reason plug cleaning in as exercise, I would use the light setting. It's better to under, than over-estimate calories burned I believe. But, to each their own, but vacumming isn't the hardest of tasks so stay on the safe side :)
  • tinahelton
    tinahelton Posts: 65 Member
    I think it would depend on the size of the space you're doing, the amount of time you're doing it, and the type of vaccuum you have. If you're getting down on your hands and knees and using the hose to get the baseboards of the hand attachments to clean vents and such then I'd say heavy. If just normal one room, light.


    I agree with this one! I clean houses for a living & get down and dirty with it..lol. I use the light setting even though I have to lug around a heavy Kirby up and down stairs as well as carrying it to the truck then lifting it in & out of the truck. Even when I get down and scrub baseboards, floors, move furniture, etc... I always use the light setting. The calorie burn setting seems to high but, I have looked it up on other calorie burn sites & it shows even more calories burned. Today I worked for over 5 hours & for 300 minutes of work it shows I burned something like 971 calories. Constantly moving (gotta get it done :).
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
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