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Rosyrockalot
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Does ironing burn any calories - cant find it anywhere !! if so how many per hour please ?
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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.0
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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!!!0 -
Only if you're running while doing it.0
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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.0 -
Only if you're running while doing it.
^This. Unless by "ironing" you mean lifting iron. That can count too.0 -
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I'm pretty sure the guy that does my laundry and irons it burns some calories doing it...0
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Ironing definitely burns when I do it. Except it burns most of my clothes, not a whole bunch of calories.0
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I only burn myself, not calories, when I iron.0
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1000/hour. I'm sending my ironing to you to do so you can burn some extra cals....0
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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.
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My first response was to come up with a sarcastic comment... like, only if your iron weighs 50 pounds...0 -
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:laugh: :indifferent: :laugh: :indifferent:0
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Nope..I'd never log anything unless I'm out of breath while doing it.0 -
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.0
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What is ironing?!!
Does it have to do with smelting iron in Ironforge?!0 -
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:0 -
What is ironing?!!
Does it have to do with smelting iron in Ironforge?!
It's what Iron Man does.
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Search for *female housework*.0
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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....0
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