Sooo cooking is an 'exercise'....

FeebRyan
FeebRyan Posts: 738 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
But sex isn't! How come?

Sometimes i spend just as much time upstairs as i do in the kitchen and certainly break more of a sweat!

Perhaps i should log it as more belly-dancing!
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  • AnjaZ89
    AnjaZ89 Posts: 235
    haha saw that yesterday too, there is some crazy stuff in the exercise list....
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    log sex as "walking the dog, 2.5 mph" like the rest of us do
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    log sex as "walking the dog, 2.5 mph" like the rest of us do

    Totally this! lolz!!
  • RubyRubixcube
    RubyRubixcube Posts: 258 Member
    wait... thats the code? haha I put it down as horse back riding... although I dont generally log it, I feel its part of day to day life.. which is why I dont log walking while I'm doing my food shopping, or cleaning (unless its that once in a while sort of clean like the garage) or doing the grout clean or something
  • nz_deevaa
    nz_deevaa Posts: 12,209 Member
    I thought I was meant to log it as dancing. Wrong again!
  • Jellyphant
    Jellyphant Posts: 1,400 Member
    Pshsh. I think I once even came across some logging 'Driving' as an exercise. -_-
  • AggieLu
    AggieLu Posts: 873 Member
    Ryan, you make a great point. I burn more calories during sex than cooking (or at least that's what my hrm says ;) ) lol
  • Jkmumma
    Jkmumma Posts: 254
    I made a custom exercise and call it "stuff"
  • tpayne0453
    tpayne0453 Posts: 52
    I don't think it's speaking of the "everyday" dinner cooking - like a marathon Thanksgiving cooking..
  • musenchild
    musenchild Posts: 182 Member
    For some people, cooking is no big deal and they wouldn't dream of logging as exercise. For some, it is a big change from their usual level of movement or it is difficult to stand that long, and for them it represents an unusual amount of effort expended.

    I log sex as walking. Secret's out!
  • hollyNhollywood
    hollyNhollywood Posts: 426 Member
    log sex as "walking the dog, 2.5 mph" like the rest of us do

    :laugh: You know I'm going to be looking for you to be logging that now, right??? :wink:
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,654 Member
    log sex as "walking the dog, 2.5 mph" like the rest of us do

    Now this makes me look at my 40s+ ladies in a whole new light, as many of them 'walk the dog' every day! lol
  • verptwerp
    verptwerp Posts: 3,659 Member
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • cfregon
    cfregon Posts: 147
    Some people will log every single thing they do as exercise (which is sort of self-defeating in the long run)- driving, walking (in the parking lot, etc), showering. I think it should only be logged if it get's your heart rate into the cardio zone and holds it there. Cooking doesn't do this...sex does. That being said...I've wondered for a long time why that isn't in the database...maybe because there are forms of sex that burn way more calories than others... Fifty Shades of Grey vs. Trying to stay quiet while the kids are sleeping in the next bed in the hotel room.
  • zenchild
    zenchild Posts: 680 Member
    I log the cooking marathons I do during the winter. 4 pots of soup, a roast and a batch of cookies and I'm WIPED. I do not log the 20 minutes or so I do every evening when I'm helping my husband put dinner together.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    wait... thats the code? haha I put it down as horse back riding... although I dont generally log it, I feel its part of day to day life.. which is why I dont log walking while I'm doing my food shopping, or cleaning (unless its that once in a while sort of clean like the garage) or doing the grout clean or something

    Come on Ruby, we know you don't really have a horse.

    plus, who would go all the way to the stables just to ride a horse for 2 minutes? :happy:
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    log sex as "walking the dog, 2.5 mph" like the rest of us do

    :laugh: You know I'm going to be looking for you to be logging that now, right??? :wink:

    Who? Me? :blushing:
  • jmeyer925
    jmeyer925 Posts: 326 Member
    Geez! No wonder everyone "walks" so often!!! :laugh:
  • nz_deevaa
    nz_deevaa Posts: 12,209 Member
    log sex as "walking the dog, 2.5 mph" like the rest of us do

    Now this makes me look at my 40s+ ladies in a whole new light, as many of them 'walk the dog' every day! lol

    and for HOURS too!
  • jpbeck
    jpbeck Posts: 30
    Sometimes when I cook I dance in the kitchen. :) Wonder if I should count that?

    Naaa...lol
  • HerBravado
    HerBravado Posts: 392 Member
    log sex as "walking the dog, 2.5 mph" like the rest of us do

    Now this makes me look at my 40s+ ladies in a whole new light, as many of them 'walk the dog' every day! lol

    THIS lmao.
  • ChristineMarie89
    ChristineMarie89 Posts: 1,079 Member
    yoga!! xD
  • annabellj
    annabellj Posts: 1,337 Member
    I always thought of it as doing a load. of laundry people! doing a load of laundry!:blushing:
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,148 Member
    I'm married, so it's unicycling for me.
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Haha. I put it down under "that thing you do."
  • spangey13
    spangey13 Posts: 294
    On a serious note (yawn...): On the weekend just been I made and decorated a two tier 21st birthday cake and prepared a third. I spent close to six hours in the kitchen. I logged this because my activity level is set as the "sit on your butt all day" setting. So six hours standing in the kitchen is definately in my usual day to day activity!
  • redhousecat
    redhousecat Posts: 584 Member
    yeah, so is housekeeping :huh:
    I'm thinking if a person has to put that much effort into housekeeping that it is logged as an attainable goal in exercise, they might need more help than weight and fitness.
  • erinxo13
    erinxo13 Posts: 892 Member
    On a serious note (yawn...): On the weekend just been I made and decorated a two tier 21st birthday cake and prepared a third. I spent close to six hours in the kitchen. I logged this because my activity level is set as the "sit on your butt all day" setting. So six hours standing in the kitchen is definately in my usual day to day activity!

    THIS! I'm a student but I work in a kitchen part time so I'm chopping and running around and making different things...so I log that because I'm on my feet for 6-8 + hours on those days. I don't log the whole day but I log a couple hours of it becasue honestly I'm doing so much of it and I wouldn't be normally doing anything if I was not at work, I'd be sitting doing homework etc.
  • cardenalera
    cardenalera Posts: 18 Member
    I log the cooking marathons I do during the winter. 4 pots of soup, a roast and a batch of cookies and I'm WIPED. I do not log the 20 minutes or so I do every evening when I'm helping my husband put dinner together.

    I'm with you on this, since I own a really small cooking business and do basically all the cooking myself (that's the "small" part of it). Usually is just about 20 or 30 minutes on slow days but sometimes can go up to 3 or 4 hours, and since I run from here to there the whole time I count it as an exercise. I don't deny sometimes it makes me feel a little guilty, cause I know is not proper exercise, but if it makes my heart race and end up tired I gotta log it.

    As for the sex part.. Yeah, I tried a custom exercise but it raised too many questions. :happy: I calculate about 150 cals for half an hour, so I log it now as Walking at 2.8 mph..
  • Shelgirl001
    Shelgirl001 Posts: 477 Member
    On a serious note (yawn...): On the weekend just been I made and decorated a two tier 21st birthday cake and prepared a third. I spent close to six hours in the kitchen. I logged this because my activity level is set as the "sit on your butt all day" setting. So six hours standing in the kitchen is definately in my usual day to day activity!

    THIS! I'm a student but I work in a kitchen part time so I'm chopping and running around and making different things...so I log that because I'm on my feet for 6-8 + hours on those days. I don't log the whole day but I log a couple hours of it becasue honestly I'm doing so much of it and I wouldn't be normally doing anything if I was not at work, I'd be sitting doing homework etc.

    My job keeps me walking, cleaning and lifting things for hours at a time, too. I will log about half the time I am at work as exercise. I also log laundry and heavier cleaning that takes a lot of time. It does cause a rise in heart rate a lot. I have my activity level as light, so I feel this is accurate. I am not really sure how it would be anyone elses business anyway, though.

    Also I log sex, if I ever have any, as calisthenics, because it is generally similar for me, ;)

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