Cleaning...Light or Heavy??

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  • pepperpat64
    pepperpat64 Posts: 423 Member
    I make my cat clean the shower…

    However, I never see him cleaning, I just see him doing this...

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    That is exactly what I would do if you made me clean your shower. :grumble:
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  • KylaDenay
    KylaDenay Posts: 1,585 Member
    Someone else to attack hey guys? Must be exciting for you all.

    Troll clearly
  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
    Someone else to attack hey guys? Must be exciting for you all.

    No one has attacked you.

    Whereas someone else in this thread has called other people a$$hats and *kitten*. and yet you think you were attacked?
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    OP dont take the forums too seriously.

    If you feel you are moving and exerting reasonable amounts of energy then its up to you whether you log it or not.

    Personally id be a bit sceptical, but the test will come on how much you lose especially if you try eating any of those calories back.

    Heres an article that purports to show calorie expenditure, use it at your own peril.
    http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/exercise/tips/housework_workouts.htm

    http://caloriecount.about.com/cleaning-house-exercise-q6500

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/housework-not-exercise-study-finds-2464068
  • PurringMyrrh
    PurringMyrrh Posts: 5,276 Member
    LOL I have had many cups of water and have had to use the rest room for a couple hours now, but I can't step away from this.

    TMI...who cares...

    This is just too entertaining.

    People people people please stop with the trying to protect OP crap. Its nonsense. No one was being mean, rude or telling her what to do. I guess those of you did not read the entire thread. Or just are not mentally stable enough for forums.
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  • BombshellPhoenix
    BombshellPhoenix Posts: 1,693 Member
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  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
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  • uconnwinsnc1
    uconnwinsnc1 Posts: 902 Member
    This thread has gone to hell in a hand basket.
  • PurringMyrrh
    PurringMyrrh Posts: 5,276 Member
    This thread has gone to hell in a hand basket.
    Yeah, like by the OP's second post.
  • jkal1979
    jkal1979 Posts: 1,896 Member
    Even if you did use the exercise calculator on here to figure it out, it's still going to be overestimated. I wrote this last year after seeing so many people log cleaning and food prep in their exercise log. I was curious about how many calories MFP said I would burn while doing what I consider light cleaning.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/jkal1979/view/the-great-housecleaning-experiment-561618
  • AskTracyAnnK28
    AskTracyAnnK28 Posts: 2,817 Member
    This thread has gone to hell in a hand basket.
    Yeah, like by the OP's second post.

    yes - but apparently if you carry the basket around you can log in the calories you burn!!!
  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
    This thread has gone to hell in a hand basket.
    Yeah, like by the OP's second post.

    yes - but apparently if you carry the basket around you can log in the calories you burn!!!

    What if I not only carry it but swing the basket around??? Do I burn more calories?
  • jkal1979
    jkal1979 Posts: 1,896 Member
    This thread has gone to hell in a hand basket.
    Yeah, like by the OP's second post.

    yes - but apparently if you carry the basket around you can log in the calories you burn!!!

    What if I not only carry it but swing the basket around??? Do I burn more calories?

    I would log it as strength training.
  • BombshellPhoenix
    BombshellPhoenix Posts: 1,693 Member
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  • PurringMyrrh
    PurringMyrrh Posts: 5,276 Member
    This thread has gone to hell in a hand basket.
    Yeah, like by the OP's second post.

    yes - but apparently if you carry the basket around you can log in the calories you burn!!!

    What if I not only carry it but swing the basket around??? Do I burn more calories?

    I would log it as strength training.
    Especially if it's full of cleaning supplies. Problem solved.
  • uconnwinsnc1
    uconnwinsnc1 Posts: 902 Member
    This thread has gone to hell in a hand basket.
    Yeah, like by the OP's second post.

    yes - but apparently if you carry the basket around you can log in the calories you burn!!!

    What if I not only carry it but swing the basket around??? Do I burn more calories?

    I would log it as strength training.

    Can't be strength training if you don't lift bro.
  • Guns_N_Buns
    Guns_N_Buns Posts: 1,899 Member
    The last time light cleaning caused this much of an uproar was when Bill Clinton offered to pay for Monica Lewinsky's dry cleaning.


    edit: JK, it was a heavy load.

    You win my favorite today.
  • KylaDenay
    KylaDenay Posts: 1,585 Member
    LOL I have had many cups of water and have had to use the rest room for a couple hours now, but I can't step away from this.

    TMI...who cares...

    This is just too entertaining.

    People people people please stop with the trying to protect OP crap. Its nonsense. No one was being mean, rude or telling her what to do. I guess those of you did not read the entire thread. Or just are not mentally stable enough for forums.
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    OMG everyone probably thinks I am crazy in offices next to me laughing so hard out loud!!!
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
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  • occultllama
    occultllama Posts: 31 Member
    Perhaps no one can answer your question on what is light cleaning vs. heavy cleaning because no one logs it.... because you shouldn't.

    ^^^This. Its pretty much an activity of daily living. The only time it can POSSIBLY be considered exercise is if you're pregnant or something....lol. Folding laundry gets my heart pumping. But even then. More than likely no.

    I work as a cleaner, if I'm doing it for six hours a day, four days a week I'm going to log it.

    In response to the OP, I log vacuuming, wiping mirrors, cleaning toilets and showers, and wiping down machines as light cleaning. Heavy cleaning is scrubbing out the sauna, washing the windows, and scrubbing the bathroom mats.

    I work in a gym so my cleaning is a bit more intense than normal round the house stuff most people do.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    Someone else to attack hey guys? Must be exciting for you all.

    It's really cute how you start off in this thread with zero helpful advice to the OP but accuse others of having no life and to put the claws away...only to then claim you're now a target by running around the thread all "Ermegerd guiz, you're so meeean." Are you. ...are you trolling right now?

    That's what I was just thinking
  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
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  • molls10m
    molls10m Posts: 22
    Light - daily things like dusting, vacuuming, dishes.

    Heavy - Spring Cleaning, washing the shower

    I don't log any cleaning, but that's my take on it.

    No, people shouldn't be rude. You did nothing to deserve being mocked. Next to every name is an arrow. If you click on it, you get the option to ignore all future posts from that person. Some people literally log in JUST to spread nastiness around, lol. Make good use of that Ignore thing and the forums become a happier and more supportive place. :)

    Like this a lot, I didn't know about the ignore option, keeping that one in my back pocket. Also I agree with your version of the cleaning.
  • maoribadger
    maoribadger Posts: 1,837 Member
    I wouldnt consider it heavy cleaning unless I was moving furniture and boxes etc. I cleaned kitchen today including hauling everything out cupboards, climbing on sides to get to cobwebs etc, still consider it light. That said I wouldnt log it either as I am only set to lightly active. I do log my walking I do at work via my fitbit adjustment but even thats an underestimation as I am pulling trollies and lifitng ppl all day. I think all people are trying to point out is fine be curious and ^^^there is my definition of the difference. But if you choose to log it do it for the motivation rather than eating the cals back or you may be cheating yourself.
  • FitForL1fe
    FitForL1fe Posts: 1,872 Member
    Someone else to attack hey guys? Must be exciting for you all.

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  • silentKayak
    silentKayak Posts: 658 Member
    Answering the question you asked:

    Light cleaning: Making dinner, wiping up, picking up after the kids, straightening up piles of junk, sweeping the floor, running the vaccuum, mopping the floor. Calories burned are not really that much more than "walking around the house looking at stuff". There's no lifting and little big-muscle movement. OK, you might have to run laundry or the vaccuum up and down the stairs or move the couch, but most of the work isn't like that.

    Next week when I paint a bedroom, I'm gonna call that heavy cleaning. I'd put it in the same category with raking leaves, shoveling snow, gardening, washing the car, scrubbing the moss off the deck, cleaning a year's worth of junk out of the garage, etc. That's actually a workout and you feel tired after and you could be sore the next day.

    Answering the question you didn't ask and probably don't care about:

    Personally, I don't log light cleaning, and I do log heavy cleaning. Light cleaning for me is an every-day activity and fits into my normal "sedentary" lifestyle. Heavy cleaning is unusual and could actually burn a lot of calories, so it's a gym substitute that day.
  • danielmbuckley
    danielmbuckley Posts: 13 Member
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  • Shalaurise
    Shalaurise Posts: 707 Member
    I have nothing useful to add!

    How do I even log standing somewhere matching socks...

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    Oh yeah... I don't.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    I wouldn't bother logging 'light cleaning', which, to me, is a normal every day activity. I'd consider 'heavy cleaning' to be anything that I might do for an extended period of time that gets my heart rate up or causes me to break a sweat - things like scrubbing floors or moving heavy furniture.

    :drinker:
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