yard work, cutting trees down, lifting logs

When I've been moving logs from wood stores I put it down as cleaning/moderate effort. Or you could put it as gardening

Wear a heart rate monitor (HRM) it will give you a ballpark figure of what you are burning with calories. Lifting weights (logs) is not a cardio exercise. It should be considered strength training. When you walk logs to another location the walk will record more calories being burned. Lifting weights(logs) can increase metabolism and that could result in weight loss but remember that lifting logs 1 or 2 days does not compare to going to the gymn 3-4times a week. Not a doctor here just into fitness

I did find this though...http://www.myfitnesspal.com/exercise/calories-burned/chopping-wood-421381

dlrock wrote: »

I'm like trm68, I'd like to know too. Hubby and I go out in the woods for two hours on the weekends and cut down trees, cut up logs, lift them in the mule, lift them out of the mule to stack them on a trailer and then lift them off the trailer at home to stack them on a wood pile. Yes, I'm excited to be able to do this at my age but am curious to know the calorie burn and how this is effecting my body.

Obviously there is a modest increase in calories from doing this type of activity. It's probably not as much as you think because the actual time of exertion is relatively small compared to the time not moving or just walking along. Most "activity estimates " will assume more continuous activity.

As far as lifting the logs, the "effect" really depends on the amount of weight vs your current ability. This is the kind of thing that would results in more benefits when you were first doing it, and less new improvement as time went on--unless you kept cutting the logs bigger and bigger.

Any activity is positive, vigorous activity ever more so.