Do you count house/yard work or shopping as exercising??
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I don't count house cleaning or shopping but I count yard work like raking and mowing the lawn.0
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No. I might as well count the calories I burn walking to the bathroom if I did. Like some others said, I only count deliberate exercise.0
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I do not log house work as an exercise. I do however, log mowing my lawn as an exercise. It's a push mower and I am perspiring, it's a workout. As for shopping it depends on how fast I shop that day.0
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No. I might as well count the calories I burn walking to the bathroom if I did.
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Why are people still assuming that exercise is only counted when you sweat? I sweat in my sleep.... I'm sure as hell not logging that as exercise. I just walked for 3 hours non-stop without breaking into a sweat while carrying all my groceries (I walked 11km carrying them) and yet I regard that as exercise..... I do that daily.
My heart rate was no higher than normal, I didn't sweat.
SO according to the people here...... if I do the same intensity doing that...... even though I did it before when I was fat.... it's not exercise & I should not log the 500+ calories I jut burnt?0 -
no, just no0
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No.0
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Yes, exercise is exercise! No point neglecting it because if you are in a caloric deficit in the first place, the nutrients given to your body are already at their bare minimum, no point in further dropping the nutritional content as it can cause your body to jump into survival mode eg. Starvation mode.
this is just no...
if you are eating you cannot go into starvation mode...you have to eat NOTHING for 72 hours to go into starvation mode...and even then effects are minimal...0 -
if it doesn't make you sweat, it's not exercise.
If I'm shoveling manure, digging holes for trees - yes. If I'm raking. no
I take water aerobics every Saturday morning, and since I'm in the water I am not sweating, but I know I'm definitely getting a workout, so it is exercise!0 -
I only count deliberate exercise as exercise. Anything that I do above and beyond that is active or physical I just consider a bonus.
^^ THIS. I like to be active. Time spent INTENTIONALLY exercising, I log. If i happen to decide to do more, great. The scale will probably reflect it. But this is about a LIFESTYLE change. Our lives should be naturally active, plus some extra time spent working towards our goals.....
I don't mean to be preachy, I just think that if we are all in this for the right reasons then counting "cleaning the house" (which we all should be doing anyway) seems silly. Just my opinion, though. I suppose everyone has a system that works for them.
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I for sure count gardening as work. Every summer spend two hours every day in the hot sun digging, weeding, raking, hauling mulch etc. Between that and walking the dog I lose 5-10lbs and a pant size compared to winter around xmas time. Clearly, that is good exercise.
Also, I am very sweaty from working like crazy. That should give you a clue as to whether you count it or not.
i sweat when I am constipated, but I don't log that ...and it takes some serious effort to take a dump when you are backed up ...hell I probably burned 1000 calories and went into starvation mode....0 -
For myself, it depends on how much walking I would do. Since I work late, and quite hit up the gym I will take nightly walks w/ my dog and husband. Depending on the walk it will be anywhere from 1-3 miles. I figure if I am walking around an outlet mall I would end up burning off the same amount from when I was walking w/ my husband and dog.
Also - regardless back in the day I worked at the mall at a GAP. So many senior citizens walk around the mall in the morning doing labs getting exercise.0 -
Intense yard work I count since it takes about 3 1/2 hrs to maintain my yard in spring/summer but I dont count housework or shopping to me thats like counting cooking or taking a shower..they are normal daily activites0
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I for sure count gardening as work. Every summer spend two hours every day in the hot sun digging, weeding, raking, hauling mulch etc. Between that and walking the dog I lose 5-10lbs and a pant size compared to winter around xmas time. Clearly, that is good exercise.
Also, I am very sweaty from working like crazy. That should give you a clue as to whether you count it or not.
i sweat when I am constipated, but I don't log that ...and it takes some serious effort to take a dump when you are backed up ...hell I probably burned 1000 calories and went into starvation mode....
^^^^ HAHAHA. I agree, though. TIme spent intentionally exercising = exercise. Time spent doing household stuff we need to do anyway does not = exercise.0 -
Only if it's raking leaves or shoveling snow...where I really breath heavy and break a sweat.0
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If you break a sweat and are breathing heard, it's exercise, but I wouldn't necessarily track it.0
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It depends on the housework. I have 5 kids so I clean something every day. If I am dusting the whole hoise, sweepeing and mopping and moving furniture to do so and without much stopping it takes most of the day to do my whole house. I may log an hour or slightly more. Yardwork such as howing and mowing I definitely count. Riding mower- never.0
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I count yard work because my yard is so bad, I assure you I'm burning some serious cals to get it cleaned up.0
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I count the trek I take to get laundry done, but only because it's not an everyday thing, and it's a pretty long haul.0
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Only if it's raking leaves or shoveling snow...where I really breath heavy and break a sweat.
but to each their own0 -
Yes! But I let my fitbit zip do the work of figuring out calories burned. You'd be amazed at what your burn from just cleaning and yard work, even for 15 minutes. It all adds up. Having a fitbit makes it very accurate. I love how it syncs up with my myfitnesspal acct. I used to struggle so much over trying to figure out calories burned. Now it's not a problem and 5 minutes here of cleaning, 10 minutes there of dancing with my son are all part of what's counted.0
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Aerobic yard work...you bet! So that would be more than 12 minutes of some effort...mowing a large yard, pulling weeds, digging, etc. the big stuff. Having an iced tea and organizing seeds...probably not!0
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Yes! But I let my fitbit zip do the work of figuring out calories burned. You'd be amazed at what your burn from just cleaning and yard work, even for 15 minutes. It all adds up. Having a fitbit makes it very accurate. I love how it syncs up with my myfitnesspal acct. I used to struggle so much over trying to figure out calories burned. Now it's not a problem and 5 minutes here of cleaning, 10 minutes there of dancing with my son are all part of what's counted.
Yep this is why I let my Fitbit One do the logging of me walking around the yard with one item of washing at a time to hang. It's ALL counted as exercise.... each & every step you take is more than doing absoutley nothing .......0 -
I've got my settings on sedentary as I have a desk job so I log my housework (well anything over 10 minutes) as it's stuff I wouldn't do day to day. I do all my cleaning and ironing and most of my shopping at the weekend so weekends are more active for me even without the cycling and running. It may not be 'working out' but it is exercise.0
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My "normal" daily activity, about 95% of the time, involves getting out of bed, driving 10 minutes to work, sitting at my desk for 8 hrs (getting up to go to the bathroom about 2 or 3 times), driving 10 minutes home, cooking dinner, watching tv, going upstairs about 2 times to go the bathroom, and then going to bed. I have calculated my TDEE based on a sedentary lifestyle.
this weekend, I went to a large Outlet shopping center and spent at least 3 hrs walking around shopping.
Since that was about 100% more activity than I get in a normal day, I counted the calories burned as exercise. (very slow/leisurely walking for 3 hrs - and it was still over 300 calories burned).0 -
My profile is set to sedentary as I have a desk job Monday to Friday. I'm also close to 300lbs (hopefully not for much longer). Getting food ready or housework, that my wife and I split, isn't enough to be considered extra work (imo) since it's a daily/usual non-strenuous thing. However, when I shoveled 2 yards of soil to fix up our lawns or removed and re-sodded our lawns I absolutely counted it. I don't have an HMR so i looked it up on the colariesperhour site and halved what it suggested.
Shopping? uhhhh, no! as in I don't do shopping unless it's for food. I'm allergic to malls.0 -
Depends. When I go out for errands, I'm walking so I wear my HRM and record calories burned. As far as cleaning goes though, I don't count it because I do it everyday.0
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Just the yard work, if you sweat, heart rate goes up....add it.0
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No.
Sometimes if it "above and beyond normal housework/yardwork' I count half of it.
But day-to-day living, like doing a load of laundry, vacuuming, watering the garden, is not counted by me.0 -
Yard work yes, for me it involves a heck of a lot of weeding, which is like doing 90,000 squats. And only incredibly intense housework. Like someone else said, if it makes me sweat to the point of needing a shower, then it is counted.0
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