Suprising Activities that are Considered Exercise?

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  • Lindsay_1984
    Lindsay_1984 Posts: 85 Member
    Video Games. I get a pretty good workout from "Just Dance" for Wii. Similar calorie burn as I get doing a 3.5mph walk.
  • vanguardfitness
    vanguardfitness Posts: 720 Member
    lots of fidgeting at the computer chair. Probably those Wii video games that involve dancing
  • cassi9879
    cassi9879 Posts: 57 Member
    Wow! Of all the places I posted this question MFP had the most responses! Quite the array of answers too.
  • mel4bee
    mel4bee Posts: 225 Member
    I chew gum lol :) and I play Just Dance on the wii. I think it is sooo much fun and it goes by soo fast.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    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.

    The average US house in the 50s was around 900 square feet.

    Now, always having to wash dishes and/or clothes by hand - yeah, that added up to some serious work!
  • cassi9879
    cassi9879 Posts: 57 Member
    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.

    What's TEF?
  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    Saw "breast feeding " on a status update the other day...I plead the 5th, but I understand.:)

    MFP doesn't have a way to calculate calories for nursing moms, so we have to do an estimate either in exercise or food to make sure we eat those calories back. I wish that counted as exercise during growth spurts.

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