No calories burned for snow blowing???
chetfreeman
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The MFP database has no calories burned for snow blowing???!!!. I guess all MFP users live down south and what with global warming it's not needed. Fortnately other websites do.
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Try using a shovel instead.3
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Snow blowing=walking0
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Actually I do blow most of the snow with my blower, not my lips. I just don't have enough hot air. I try to avoid using a shovel except for the places the blower doesn't do. LOL. But now I need the calorie burn rate for blizzard blowing. We're supposed to get 20 to 30." If you equate snow blowing to walking you must do your walking at 10 mph.0
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It's probably close to push mowing the lawn. Good luck with the snow that is coming!0
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I had to shovel this morning and broke a sweat in my jacket, very uncomfortable feeling...yuck!0
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I shovel, but if I wanted a snow blower, I would hire the big bad wolf instead of spending several hundred(thousand?) dollars on a gasoline powered device. Huff & puff ;-)0
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OP I think you are too concerned with a minor, one time, calorie burn from a snow blower...4
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If you really want to know google it. There are several sites that list it. (Sorry can't figure out how to cook and paste URL with tablet)
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I'd put it similar to lawn mowing.0
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I wouldn't log it period.
Without a HRM (which would probably be innacurate, due to the vibration of the snow blower), it's impossible to know how much you actually burned during it, and risk overestimating your exercise calories.
Log purposeful exercise.0 -
A number of variables, including your own weight and the depth of the snow (more difficult to snow blow 18 inches of snow than 4). One of the on-line calculators have put the calories burned at 305 calories/hour for someone that weighs 150 pounds.
That seems a reasonable estimate for the amount of work involved.0 -
chetfreeman wrote: »The MFP database has no calories burned for snow blowing???!!!. I guess all MFP users live down south and what with global warming it's not needed. Fortnately other websites do.
You're walking behind a motorized stroller.
There's no calorie burn for it, come on.2 -
I don't log blowing snow with my self-propelled, 2-stage snowblower, because I'm basically just walking along behind it slowly and steering. There is somewhat more work involved when I pull it backwards (faster than shifting into reverse), or pushing it into a particularly dense patch, but not that much. I just figure that it's part of my normal routine. I do log shoveling snow, since that's real work.
If I were using a one-stage snowblower without a motorized drive, I would log it as walking.1 -
Depends on the amount of snow you are blowing. A couple inches would be just like a lawn mower - A couple feet is a different story if you are pulling and pushing the blower into the the bank. I just spent 2 hours cleaning a 4 car driveway after 2 feet of snow - and its nothing like pushing a lawn mower or walking behind a motorized stroller...1
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No, doesn't depend. It's a motorized stroller for adult men.
Granted, they're fun, but yeah... no... not a workout. Not hard to do, and about as minimal an effort one can put into snow play.1 -
Depends on the amount of snow you are blowing. A couple inches would be just like a lawn mower - A couple feet is a different story if you are pulling and pushing the blower into the the bank. I just spent 2 hours cleaning a 4 car driveway after 2 feet of snow - and its nothing like pushing a lawn mower or walking behind a motorized stroller...
put that away - get out a shovel- and then you have a real calorie burn.0 -
chetfreeman wrote: »The MFP database has no calories burned for snow blowing???!!!. I guess all MFP users live down south and what with global warming it's not needed. Fortnately other websites do.
You're walking behind a motorized stroller.
There's no calorie burn for it, come on.
-As I sip coffee from my kitchen watching a plow truck clear 3 inches of snow away.
I'd love to invite these idiots up north after a 2 ft storm of wet heavy snow. Battling the 4 ft snowbanks next to the road and clearing the rest of the driveway for 2 1/2 hours works up a hell of a sweat. There's still a ton of pushing and pulling that 200 lb snowblower. If you've never done it, don't comment.1 -
abrockway21 wrote: »chetfreeman wrote: »The MFP database has no calories burned for snow blowing???!!!. I guess all MFP users live down south and what with global warming it's not needed. Fortnately other websites do.
You're walking behind a motorized stroller.
There's no calorie burn for it, come on.
-As I sip coffee from my kitchen watching a plow truck clear 3 inches of snow away.
I'd love to invite these idiots up north after a 2 ft storm of wet heavy snow. Battling the 4 ft snowbanks next to the road and clearing the rest of the driveway for 2 1/2 hours works up a hell of a sweat. There's still a ton of pushing and pulling that 200 lb snowblower. If you've never done it, don't comment.
2 1/2 hours? You must have one heck of a driveway..... strong first post though, calling other members idiots.
Bad news though, working up a sweat does not correlate with calorie expenditure. Even if you equated to activity to 2.5 hours of strength training you'd be looking at 500 or 600 calories.0 -
abrockway21 wrote: »chetfreeman wrote: »The MFP database has no calories burned for snow blowing???!!!. I guess all MFP users live down south and what with global warming it's not needed. Fortnately other websites do.
You're walking behind a motorized stroller.
There's no calorie burn for it, come on.
-As I sip coffee from my kitchen watching a plow truck clear 3 inches of snow away.
I'd love to invite these idiots up north after a 2 ft storm of wet heavy snow. Battling the 4 ft snowbanks next to the road and clearing the rest of the driveway for 2 1/2 hours works up a hell of a sweat. There's still a ton of pushing and pulling that 200 lb snowblower. If you've never done it, don't comment.
Nice 2-yo resurrection.
BTW - I live in CT and got hammered with snow. I snowblew my driveway and patio. Can I comment? If so, then I'll just say that I didn't burn much until I had to use my shovel.1 -
I don't know about blowing snow but the ratio is one beer every 15' in said snow for maintenance.
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Consider anything you did actually burn as a bonus and warm up with a hot chocolate. Next time do some shovelling and build a luge for the kids to sled down. You'll be a hero.1
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-As I sip coffee from my kitchen watching a plow truck clear 3 inches of snow away.
I'd love to invite these idiots up north after a 2 ft storm of wet heavy snow. Battling the 4 ft snowbanks next to the road and clearing the rest of the driveway for 2 1/2 hours works up a hell of a sweat. There's still a ton of pushing and pulling that 200 lb snowblower. If you've never done it, don't comment.[/quote]
Agree. When we actually had the snow blower working, it didn't turn corners with ease you had to fight with it. It didn't have reverse to you tried to avoid it. It can be hard work using a snow blower.
Its harder now since our snow blower has died, its the shovel or if I'm lucky the Hubby will actually use a tractor. ( hardly never, only once this winter)0 -
As someone said previously, there are a lot of variables. Due to the fact that you don't do it every day, that's its not done as a workout/for exercise, and the wild inexactness of estimating calories burned, I wouldn't bother logging it. If nothing else, it would give me a little buffer for the times I underestimate calories consumed.
If you insist on logging it, log something pretty low. Even if you're fighting with a big snowblower on rough ground, it's not going to be a large calorie burn. I'd probably log it like I did weight lifting... something like 3-5cals per minute.0 -
abrockway21 wrote: »chetfreeman wrote: »The MFP database has no calories burned for snow blowing???!!!. I guess all MFP users live down south and what with global warming it's not needed. Fortnately other websites do.
You're walking behind a motorized stroller.
There's no calorie burn for it, come on.
-As I sip coffee from my kitchen watching a plow truck clear 3 inches of snow away.
I'd love to invite these idiots up north after a 2 ft storm of wet heavy snow. Battling the 4 ft snowbanks next to the road and clearing the rest of the driveway for 2 1/2 hours works up a hell of a sweat. There's still a ton of pushing and pulling that 200 lb snowblower. If you've never done it, don't comment.
Strong 1st post on a necro thread...
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abrockway21 wrote: »chetfreeman wrote: »The MFP database has no calories burned for snow blowing???!!!. I guess all MFP users live down south and what with global warming it's not needed. Fortnately other websites do.
You're walking behind a motorized stroller.
There's no calorie burn for it, come on.
-As I sip coffee from my kitchen watching a plow truck clear 3 inches of snow away.
I'd love to invite these idiots up north after a 2 ft storm of wet heavy snow. Battling the 4 ft snowbanks next to the road and clearing the rest of the driveway for 2 1/2 hours works up a hell of a sweat. There's still a ton of pushing and pulling that 200 lb snowblower. If you've never done it, don't comment.
I live up north, and though it does take a long time to use the snow blower if I'm doing my parents house, and I do sweat, I do realize that it is because I'm wearing a lot of clothes, and moving around, not because I'm putting an extreme amount of exertion into doing the task. I sweat a lot more from shoveling my 1 car driveway and front walk in a 6" storm than I do snow-blowing my parents 8 car driveway on one side, and their 2 car on the other side in a 20" snow storm.
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Ugh, you guys made me post on an old thread!3
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This thread has everything I could want. Random insults from clueless people, multi-year necro, completely unrelated posts and plenty of sarcasm and snark. Thank you.3
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This thread has everything I could want. Random insults from clueless people, multi-year necro, completely unrelated posts and plenty of sarcasm and snark. Thank you.
Topped off with most of the replies from people who don't understand that snow blowing can be a daily, or at least 2-3 times a week, thing for 4 months of the year.
Dammit. Now I'm doing the necro thing too.0
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