Suprising Activities that are Considered Exercise?
cassi9879
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I'm working on an article/blog post about surprising activities that are considered exercise. Since I've pretty much only done workout DVDs and a little gardening for my exercise I don't know what all is out there.
On your journey, what funny/surprising activities have you found to burn calories?
On your journey, what funny/surprising activities have you found to burn calories?
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Everything burns calories. By virtue of being alive you burn calories. Now what you want to define as exercise is something else again.0
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hula hooping
roller blading
just came back from snowshoeing
every day I try to find fun and new things to do!0 -
like mokey says everything you do burns calories since your body needs energy all the time for breathing, blinking, organs working, blood circulating et.
as for exercise, i define exercise as anything that either challenges or maintains my current fitness level.0 -
Cleaning the bathroom (or anything really)
One of the reasons housewives in the 40s, 50s, 60s were thinner than we are today as a society is because they were constantly looking after the house, lifting things up, vacuuming. It really does burn a lot of cals.0 -
Cleaning the bathroom (or anything really)
One of the reasons housewives in the 40s, 50s, 60s were thinner than we are today as a society is because they were constantly looking after the house, lifting things up, vacuuming. It really does burn a lot of cals.
And they didn't eat half their meals at fast food places or binge on bags of potato chips and junk. It was considered slovenly to be overweight back when I was growing up.0 -
On your journey, what funny/surprising activities have you found to burn calories?
sleeping0 -
I've read we actually spend more time now on housework, because the standards have changed. Who knows.
All activity can be considered 'exercise'. There are govt databases of calorie burns for everything from milking goats to changing light bulbs to sex.0 -
On your journey, what funny/surprising activities have you found to burn calories?
Shaking my head at many a MFP thread/post.0 -
Cleaning the bathroom (or anything really)
One of the reasons housewives in the 40s, 50s, 60s were thinner than we are today as a society is because they were constantly looking after the house, lifting things up, vacuuming. It really does burn a lot of cals.
And they didn't eat half their meals at fast food places or binge on bags of potato chips and junk. It was considered slovenly to be overweight back when I was growing up.
also they were also doing things like taking diet pills, frequently skipping meals or doing a cottage cheese and grapefruit for breakfast and lunch diet. add to that women back then had far less of a wardrobe than we do now so there was more of an incentive to stay the size you started.0 -
On your journey, what funny/surprising activities have you found to burn calories?
Shaking my head at many a MFP thread/post.
It's part of the endless search for more calories to eat without actually doing anything to earn them.0 -
I have an entry in my exercise log for "thefeniks" That's my BF's user name. Doing him burns calories and should count as exercise, right? Riiiiiiiiiiight.0
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"dusting - light effort"
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On your journey, what funny/surprising activities have you found to burn calories?
I would say the TEF due to protein consumption. It's hard work.0 -
"dusting - light effort"
Women shouldn't do it. My forearms got SO bulky from dusting.0 -
On your journey, what funny/surprising activities have you found to burn calories?
Shaking my head at many a MFP thread/post.
It's part of the endless search for more calories to eat without actually doing anything to earn them.
it's for the people who want to say the burned some calroies and didn't train.
For some people "exercising" is enough.
I haven't "exercised" in years.
I train. I train very hard- i'ts important to me to be better than I was yesterday and to be on a progression forward.
Just mindlessly burning calories for the sake of burning calories isn't my thing- but it works for some people because it's better than doing nothing.
> playing with the dog
> raking leaves
> mowing the lawn
> serious house cleaning (moving furniture- boxes)
> moving
> chasing my horse that got loose
> jumping (horses)
> riding a motorcycle aggressively- and no I don't' mean on the freeway- I mean like at a track.0 -
Cooking/food prep - I have used this a few times when I've spent hours in the kitchen (baking or around Thanksgiving). I was not surprised that it burned calories, of course. I was surprised at what the database said it burned.0
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I like playing paintball. Burns calories, its fun and being able to shoot my kiddos and husband is a huge stress reliever!0
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Cleaning the bathroom (or anything really)
One of the reasons housewives in the 40s, 50s, 60s were thinner than we are today as a society is because they were constantly looking after the house, lifting things up, vacuuming. It really does burn a lot of cals.
Corsets helped too! And were pretty sexy!0 -
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Shaking my head at many a MFP thread/post.0 -
For the article, I'd probably add painting a room. At least if you do it kind of quickly. I don't know who is going to paint a whole room just to burn some calories, but if someone wants to get a Starbucks after, I could see that
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Saw "breast feeding " on a status update the other day...I plead the 5th, but I understand.:)
I salsa dance Fridays....that's like Zumba for 3 hrs....no such thing as a slow salsa song! Fun and serious burn.
U can make washing dishes an exercise, my friend does squats as she washes dishes! Lol!
Just "Do u" and ...have fun!
Shan, atl0 -
i saw one lady's exercise log on here a year ago and she was logging "intercourse, vigorous" 6 days a week.
i don't think it was Kim Khardasian, but i can't recall.0 -
We're right back to the beginning. EVERYTHING burns calories. That's were the term Basal Metabolic Rate comes from. The calories you burn every single moment of every single day just existing. The very fact that you move around a bit during the day burns more calories. Every move you make burns a few calories over your BMR. Problem is very few people are eating their BMR, especially not those searching for innovative ways to say they burned calories.
You can make a list of putting on your socks, combing your hair, brushing your teeth, pouring cereal, etc but it's all part of the calories you burn everyday which is where we come to your Total Daily Energy Expenditure. Everybody should have some idea of what their TDEE is without adding any intentional exercise like running, cycling, aerobics, lifting, etc. You don't have to come up with creative things like making Thanksgiving dinner in order to satisfy your need for more calories.
If people set themselves a realistic budget then you shouldn't be needing to make up exercise calories to justify eating more. One step to learning to live a healthy life is to not see every activity as a way to earn more food. Food is fuel for your body. It's not your friend, it's not your reward, it's not going to fix the bad things in your life.0 -
It is really weird what folks will log, lol.
But I did have one of the popularly-ridiculed ones matter a lot. I was losing weight really well in the spring, and then I took a break from logging and weighing until late summer. I went back to the level of calories I saw working in the spring (from my chart). I saw the amount of calories I ostensibly burned from exercise. Except it didn't work in the late summer. I was like WTF?
It really was the gardening that did it. It was hours of gardening a day, only logged as 45 min max. That made enough difference in my TDEE that it was not the same TDEE in the fall without all those hours spent working in the yard.0 -
It is really weird what folks will log, lol.
But I did have one of the popularly-ridiculed ones matter a lot. I was losing weight really well in the spring, and then I took a break from logging and weighing until late summer. I went back to the level of calories I saw working in the spring (from my chart). I saw the amount of calories I ostensibly burned from exercise. Except it didn't work in the late summer. I was like WTF?
It really was the gardening that did it. It was hours of gardening a day, only logged as 45 min max. That made enough difference in my TDEE that it was not the same TDEE in the fall without all those hours spent working in the yard.
I think that's a thing people miss too- the TDEE is not a fixed number- it fluxates as your body changes and as the season changes (many people have a seasonal hobby- and or kids with seasonal sports)... it's not a fixed number- you always need to re-evaluate it!0 -
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For the OP - I wouldn't log this as exercise, but I was genuinely surprised at how many calories my Fitbit said I burned while changing light switches and power receptacles throughout my house. It was mostly the running back and forth to the circuit box that did it. I could see someone logging a "general home repair" activity or something similar.0
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I've seen furniture assembly in the MFP database.
Some days where I've spent an 8 hour day wrangling electric stands/medical equipment in and out of boxes and on and off of pallets, I am tempted to use it...0 -
Uh really...0
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