ironing

Rosyrockalot
Rosyrockalot Posts: 10
in Fitness and Exercise
Does ironing burn any calories - cant find it anywhere !! if so how many per hour please ?
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  • PriceK01
    PriceK01 Posts: 834 Member
    I consider it part of my normal daily activities. It's not like it's burning any more than doing the dishes or cooking dinner, and I don't count those. Heck, I probably burn more doing my hair each morning.
  • Gail3260
    Gail3260 Posts: 354 Member
    It's not there and questions about logging this (and housework in general) provoke very heated responses.

    I don't iron as a rule (I pay someone else to do it) and I have a very sedentary job. So on the rare occasions I do iron for more than a few minutes I log it as housework/cleaning but only log half the actual time.

    I'm now waiting for the heated responses!!!
  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    Only if you're running while doing it.
  • wheysted999
    wheysted999 Posts: 3
    Does ironing burn any calories - cant find it anywhere !! if so how many per hour please ?

    The difference it makes is so little it's not worth bothering to count ;) But all the little things you do throughout the day instead of sitting or lying down makes a big difference when it's all added up. A busy bee burns a lot more calories than a couch potato.
  • ZoeLifts
    ZoeLifts Posts: 10,347 Member
    Only if you're running while doing it.

    ^This. Unless by "ironing" you mean lifting iron. That can count too.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
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  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
    I'm pretty sure the guy that does my laundry and irons it burns some calories doing it...
  • iulia_maddie
    iulia_maddie Posts: 2,780 Member
    Ironing definitely burns when I do it. Except it burns most of my clothes, not a whole bunch of calories.
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    I only burn myself, not calories, when I iron.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    1000/hour. I'm sending my ironing to you to do so you can burn some extra cals....
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    Do you break a sweat doing it? What's your heartrate at? Is it elevated for more than 20 minutes? What's your activity level set to at? If it's lightly active, certainly don't log it. If it's sedentary, I still wouldn't log it.

    What's the point of logging it? Is it to be able to eat more?

    Really, you want to log exercise... activities that genuinely count toward helping you get in shape. I don't think ironing counts IMO, and will go a step further to say that if you are counting 20 minutes of ironing as your daily exercise, then you are cheating yourself.



    Note:
    My first response was to come up with a sarcastic comment... like, only if your iron weighs 50 pounds...
  • iWaffle
    iWaffle Posts: 2,208 Member
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  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    :laugh: :indifferent: :laugh: :indifferent:
  • Fozzi43
    Fozzi43 Posts: 2,984 Member
    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

    Nope..I'd never log anything unless I'm out of breath while doing it.
  • Rarity2013
    Rarity2013 Posts: 196 Member
    I only really think of housework as a calorie-burning exercise when I'm doing a big session of it ie. the whole house and doing a wide variety ie. vacuuming, washing pots, dusting, de-cobwebbing etc. Anything else seems a bit optimistic, but that said- all activity is good.
  • Penny_Lane_
    Penny_Lane_ Posts: 163
    What is ironing?!!

    Does it have to do with smelting iron in Ironforge?!
  • krash999
    krash999 Posts: 476 Member
    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

    Nope..I'd never log anything unless I'm out of breath while doing it.


    i could count most of what i do if all i have to do for it to count is to be out of breath..... hmmmm... would holding your breath count then?????? :laugh: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
  • iWaffle
    iWaffle Posts: 2,208 Member
    What is ironing?!!

    Does it have to do with smelting iron in Ironforge?!

    It's what Iron Man does.


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  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    Search for *female housework*.
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    Anything I did as part of my daily, weekly routine (vacuuming,ironing,sweeping,sex,mopping,etc) when I got fat DOES NOT COUNT.
    Hope that helps....
  • techteachergirl
    techteachergirl Posts: 161 Member
    I only burn myself, not calories, when I iron.

    Glad I am not alone!!
  • Hendrix7
    Hendrix7 Posts: 1,903 Member
    Search for *female housework*.


    Ahahaha
  • Fozzi43
    Fozzi43 Posts: 2,984 Member
    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

    Nope..I'd never log anything unless I'm out of breath while doing it.


    i could count most of what i do if all i have to do for it to count is to be out of breath..... hmmmm... would holding your breath count then?????? :laugh: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

    I mean heart rate kinda out of breath :flowerforyou:
  • Gail3260
    Gail3260 Posts: 354 Member
    Anything I did as part of my daily, weekly routine (vacuuming,ironing,sweeping,sex,mopping,etc) when I got fat DOES NOT COUNT.
    Hope that helps....

    It was only a matter of time before someone said that.......I got fat while swimming and going to the gym every week....it was eating too much not lack of exercise that was my problem.

    By your logic I shouldn't now log the swimming and other gym work that I still do!
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    Buy wrinkle free shirts and go squat. :flowerforyou:
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    Anything I did as part of my daily, weekly routine (vacuuming,ironing,sweeping,sex,mopping,etc) when I got fat DOES NOT COUNT.
    Hope that helps....

    It was only a matter of time before someone said that.......I got fat while swimming and going to the gym every week....it was eating too much not lack of exercise that was my problem.

    By your logic I shouldn't now log the swimming and other gym work that I still do!

    You actually moved more and started eating less. Do you REALLY think ironing will help in her weight loss!?!
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
    What is ironing?!!

    Does it have to do with smelting iron in Ironforge?!

    It's what Iron Man does.


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  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    Anything I did as part of my daily, weekly routine (vacuuming,ironing,sweeping,sex,mopping,etc) when I got fat DOES NOT COUNT.
    Hope that helps....

    It was only a matter of time before someone said that.......I got fat while swimming and going to the gym every week....it was eating too much not lack of exercise that was my problem.

    By your logic I shouldn't now log the swimming and other gym work that I still do!

    Maybe when you were fat you were just more buoyant and you just floated around.

    Now that you're thin and have more muscle it takes more effort to keep you afloat so you burn more calories?
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    Does ironing burn any calories - cant find it anywhere !! if so how many per hour please ?

    you're joking, right?
  • thisismeraw
    thisismeraw Posts: 1,264 Member
    Everything you do burns calories.

    I'm hoping you aren't planning on adding ironing to your exercise. Normal household tasks aren't exercise. I will only count it as exercise if I do a huge whole house cleaning which lasts for hours non stop. Even than I only log maybe 1/3 of the time.

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