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Epesii
Epesii Posts: 1
edited November 9 in Fitness and Exercise
Hey everyone!

Question;
Every day, I have to muck out my mare's stable. This includes lifting her poop into a bucket, then lifting the bucket into a spreader, sweeping, filling and carrying haynets, moving waterbuckets, walking to and from the fields; let alone riding the girl!!

Does anyone have any idea what calories this burns? As I can't find it in database and would be helpful to my weightloss

Thanks!

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  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    Honestly, I wouldn't even log it as this is daily activity for you. Changing your settings to Lightly Active or Active might be a more appropriate way of accounting for the calorie burn, and you wouldn't have to worry about logging it every day.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    http://queryhorse.com/toppages/articles/caloriesmucking.asp
  • steff274
    steff274 Posts: 227 Member
    Hey I have added you I log it when I do more than one stable when I am on the yard working because I will need the extra calories to prevent me from dropping too much weight!!
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    edited January 2015
    Work (including housework, yard work & childcare) is part of your activity level—not exercise.

    Start with active, wait several weeks, then reevaluate your progress: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided

    Work = activity level. Workouts = exercise.
  • losergood2011
    losergood2011 Posts: 172 Member
    This is not light work. I don't a entry for farmwork. If I have a heavy day (haven't mucked out the mud pen until spring, put up 7 ton hay, spend a day at a clinic that requires lots of ground work and trot canter) then I adjust it. Mucking is a great workout - heavy lifting with shovel, rotation of spine and hips, lifting wheelbarrows or buckets :-) Good for you!
  • harric88
    harric88 Posts: 82 Member
    Put it this way I never saw above 9st when i had my horse - horseless and now 13st 5 :) - mucking out = abs!!!
  • loratliff
    loratliff Posts: 283 Member
    I log riding itself, but not grooming, mucking, or other stablework. I agree with others that changing your activity setting is probably more accurate.
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