Pushing a 50kg double stroller. Cardio or Strength?

Zamzambam
Zamzambam Posts: 1
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
My main and most accessible exercise is to walk my 1 & 2 y.o. children in a double stroller. All up I'm pushing about 50kg's. I log this as a cardio exercise e.g. 1 hour at 10km's per hour. However I wonder if I should also be logging something for strength. Thoughts? TIA

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  • November_Fire
    November_Fire Posts: 165 Member
    Honestly I wouldn't log it at all. Pushing a pushchair isn't strength training, whichever way you swing it.

    I walk 15,000+ steps a day with a pushchair and don't log it. I let Fitbit make an estimate based on the steps and adjust (or don't) my calorie goal from there, but I'd feel like I was kidding myself to pretend a few miles walk was 'strength training'.
  • jacksonpt
    jacksonpt Posts: 10,413 Member
    I wouldn't consider it strength training, either. There is probably some benefit to muscular endurance, but it's not really strength work.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    it's cardio.
  • scraver2003
    scraver2003 Posts: 526 Member
    I, personally, would just log it as cardio. Pushing a stroller is tough work, and definitely great for endurance, but I would not classify it as weight training.

    I find the hardest part are the down hills - you have to hang on tight. Exhausted just thinking about it.
  • _lyndseybrooke_
    _lyndseybrooke_ Posts: 2,561 Member
    Why would you log it as 1 hour at 10km's per hour if it's walking? 6 miles per hour is more of a jog or slow run than walking. I wouldn't factor in the stroller at all. I'd log it as cardio, walking at approximately the speed you are actually walking.
  • enigmaneo
    enigmaneo Posts: 61 Member
    They have one walking a dog or something like that. That one might work.
  • h7463
    h7463 Posts: 626 Member
    edited January 2015
    I've watched my niece and her friends do it with their strollers, and the closest exercise would probably be 'power walk'... They've been doing it on the high school track with the strollers, so it's pretty easy to estimate the distance they walk. But it isn't anywhere near 10 mph speed..
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    50kg for a 1 and 2 yr old? Are these baby power lifters?
  • Lofteren
    Lofteren Posts: 960 Member
    If you can do something continuously for an hour it is not strength training because it isn't heavy.
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