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moping the floor: light / moderate or heavy / vigerous ?

donyellemoniquex3
donyellemoniquex3 Posts: 2,384 Member
edited January 3 in Fitness and Exercise
just curious.

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  • Plates559
    Plates559 Posts: 869 Member
    Nothing, it's called being a tidy person.

    If you mopped the floor and gained weight, why would logging it help you lose weight?
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    Nothing, it's called being a tidy person.

    If you mopped the floor and gained weight, why would logging it help you lose weight?

    Agree!! Make time to do 'real exercise' and just let the routine cleaning be a unlogged bonus.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    If you are just moping around on the floor, I don't think you burn much.


    Sorry, I couldn't resist the typo.
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    Grab a HRM. Measure what you burn just sitting on the couch. Then measure what you burn mopping the floor for the same amount of time.

    A little simple math will show you how much it burns and then from there you can determine what it is.

    But honestly if you're breaking out into a sweat and your heart is hammering while you're mopping - then it's a vigorous workout. :) And who knows, maybe for some people it IS a vigorous chore!
  • Plates559
    Plates559 Posts: 869 Member
    If you are just moping around on the floor, I don't think you burn much.


    Sorry, I couldn't resist the typo.

    Haha I was going to say, they floors aren't THAT comforting...
  • LoosingMyLast15
    LoosingMyLast15 Posts: 1,457 Member
    just curious.

    to answer your question: it depends. i have a very small kitchen floor so when i wash the floor it would be light for me. if your entire home is tile or laminate and you're washing the floors of your entire home all at one time then i would say heavy.

    i don't bother counting things like this as exercise and unless i am scrubbing my house top to bottom including inside/outside windows (ie spring cleaning where i'm sweating up a storm cleaning and organizing closets and going through drawers for items to donate, et) then i count it.

    the reason i don't count things like basic housecleaning: i don't count things like my soy milk and teaspoon of sugar in my coffee each morning, the vinegar i use in my salad (i count extra virgin olive oil), certain vegetables (garlic for instance) when i'm cooking for ME at the end of the day the "exercise" i do - washing the kitchen floor, wiping down countertops, loading/unloading/washing dishes, laundry, tidying up the house burns those little bits of calories.
  • fit4life76
    fit4life76 Posts: 36 Member
    I never log cleaning. I think of it this way, I have always cleaned my house no matter what shape I've been in so I'm not going to keep track of it now. I think it could especially backfire if you are "eating exercise calories". In my opinion, you should only track actual exercising not daily chores. The only chore I count as exercise is shoveling and when I do that, I wear my HRM so I see what I've burned.
  • Plates559
    Plates559 Posts: 869 Member
    I've always had the mentality that exercise is something you put different clothes on to do. If I have to run after the dog for getting out i'm not going to count that because well that is just life.

    But if I put on my running shoes, put the dog on a leash, and go run around for a while. That I can count.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    Nothing, it's called being a tidy person.

    If you mopped the floor and gained weight, why would logging it help you lose weight?

    Agree!! Make time to do 'real exercise' and just let the routine cleaning be a unlogged bonus.

    These.
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    Doesn't count. Try again.
  • Owlie45
    Owlie45 Posts: 806 Member
    When it comes to cleaning always go with light. Mfp tends to over estimate calories burned.
    Personally I would get on my hands and knees with a knuckle brush and scrub the floor, harder work.

    I enter cleaning allow the time And I eat those calories back, still lose weight.
  • donyellemoniquex3
    donyellemoniquex3 Posts: 2,384 Member
    thanks y'all
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Do you have 3 dogs? Cause that **** is exhausting.

    Seriously though - I don't log cleaning.
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    Grab a HRM. Measure what you burn just sitting on the couch. Then measure what you burn mopping the floor for the same amount of time.

    Doesn't work that way. A HRM isn't accurate when you're just sitting on the couch or probably when you mop the floor. Your HR has to be elevated significantly for the algorithms to work.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Grab a HRM. Measure what you burn just sitting on the couch. Then measure what you burn mopping the floor for the same amount of time.

    Doesn't work that way. A HRM isn't accurate when you're just sitting on the couch or probably when you mop the floor. Your HR has to be elevated significantly for the algorithms to work.

    Best post of the thread.
  • Lady_Bane
    Lady_Bane Posts: 720 Member
    Nothing, it's called being a tidy person.

    If you mopped the floor and gained weight, why would logging it help you lose weight?

    Agree!! Make time to do 'real exercise' and just let the routine cleaning be a unlogged bonus.

    both of the above^^^^
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