Cleaning Stalls, Calories? Strength or Cardiovascular?

When I had an internship at a local horse showing stable, I dropped 14 lbs and got really toned arms. I dunno whether to define it as cardio or strength! I was loading up and lugging around 50 lb barrels up and down a ramp for about 2 hours, and then I got to be a barn manager and was doing haybales too. It's definitely a fat blaster, that's for sure!
Get yourself an HRM and find out what you're burning.

Hey good on you for getting out to clean the horse stalls! I do agree with the others around here though - be careful about logging that sort of work. I look after 17 horses and teach lessons regularly, but I don't log those calories. The reason I don't log them is because it's stop and go work, not consistent. Ie: You're not constantly moving your fork for the whole two hours straight. Yes you do burn calories, but, there is no clear way to log them. It's sort of like how we don't log every step we take all day. Ie: We don't log grocery shopping as walking, even though we walked most of the time. I also am not a fan of logging housework, gardening, or any other stop/go activities.

You also have to keep in mind that even though it took you two hours to clean the stalls, you wouldn't have burned the same amount of calories someone else might have, since three stalls typically takes 15 - 40 minutes depending on the type of bedding, whether you're stripping the stalls or not, and whether you include other chores as part of that (ie: In my barn you muck, knock down cobwebs, dump and scrub the water/feed buckets, hay, and sweep the area near the stall as part of mucking, other places they literally just muck.)

That said, ultimately it's just personal preference what you do and don't log. You should be really proud of your accomplishment!!!

I personally log a lot of my regular activities because when I did my initial setup with MFP, I marked myself as having a sedentary lifestyle because for the most part I did. If I do 1 hour of cleaning I may log it as 20-30 min of light housekeeping because I want to be realistic about the calories I may be burning. Also, I like to have something to look back on to see what I had been doing the past month and see where that has gotten me. Additionally, I do get cardio from walking, jogging, water aerobics, biggest loser workout, etc and I log that as well.

With that said, I also watch what I put into my mouth and I choose not to eat my exercise calories back (if I am hungry I will eat some back). Keep in mind, I am not working right now (for pay), I stay at home and take care of my grandson who keeps me going to. Right now, this is what is working for me. I have been successful at consistently losing weight for the past few months and even won a weight loss challenge in my community. So, what I have been doing has worked for me. I guess that's it in a nutshell. You need to log what you choose and measure your results over time and make your own adjustments as needed.

I am sure you can really work up a sweat mucking stalls so I personally would log that but that's my opinion. Good luck and keep up that hard work

What is exercise to your body is getting the heart rate up and using your cardiovacular energy system to power the muscles.

And shoveling equine fecal matter does exactly that. It's not exactly scooping a cat box.

Well I am going to check out a farm job cleaning sheep pens, pig pens and maby a couple stalls . I know for the sheep there are atleast 100 head so I can definitly be sure that I will ache from head to toe when I start that job lol sheep waste is very heavy lol and I will log it as gardening to make sure that I do not over eat but at the same time i will be packing extra fruit, veggies in my lunch. not to mention hauling hay for all the animals, bedding, feed and operating equipment , I will be sore for a few days lol.