Gardening, shoveling, calories

likehlikeo
likehlikeo Posts: 185 Member
edited November 17 in Fitness and Exercise
Hello everyone :)

My mom an I created a complete new flower bed out of an old pond. We dug out at least 50 big rocks, which easily weight 15-20 pounds each and put them on a pile. I shoveled dirt like a maniac and filled up the entire previous pond. We then put the rocks in circles, filling each one up with more dirt, to create a spiral and planted flowers and lavender.

The entire project took us 4 hours with a 20min. break.

I have no idea how many calories I could calculate for that...I only know, that I will have a really sore body tomorrow...

Any guesstimations?

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  • LuckyStar813
    LuckyStar813 Posts: 163 Member
    In the Cardio area of Exercise you can look up Gardening and it to your journal.
  • likehlikeo
    likehlikeo Posts: 185 Member
    Ah, weird, when I used the iphone app, it gave me 6 calories for 4 hours of "gardening"...it works now I'm on my desktop.
  • bennettinfinity
    bennettinfinity Posts: 865 Member
    Without knowing your stats, I'd guess somewhere in the of 200 kC +/- 100% range.

    But really (and I'm not trying to be snarky here) unless it's purposeful, repeatable exercise, I wouldn't even worry about logging it. Did you burn some extra calories? Yes, but you're not going to move the rocks and dirt again tomorrow, next week, or even next month. In the overall scheme of things, it's not particularly meaningful.
  • debrakgoogins
    debrakgoogins Posts: 2,033 Member
    bennettinfinity wrote: »
    Without knowing your stats, I'd guess somewhere in the of 200 kC +/- 100% range.

    But really (and I'm not trying to be snarky here) unless it's purposeful, repeatable exercise, I wouldn't even worry about logging it. Did you burn some extra calories? Yes, but you're not going to move the rocks and dirt again tomorrow, next week, or even next month. In the overall scheme of things, it's not particularly meaningful.

    It is meaningful if you are eating back some of your exercise calories. The work she did was hard work and could put her under 1200 calories for the day if she doesn't log it.
  • rileyes
    rileyes Posts: 1,406 Member
    I've done a lot of heavy-duty landscaping like that--it's hard work! Digging may be equivalent to shoveling snow--I hear that is a good workout.
  • ClubSilencio
    ClubSilencio Posts: 2,983 Member
    Are you hungrier than usual? If so you probably burned more calories than your usual workouts.

    I've burned 1000 cals during workouts but doing manual labor like that leaves me absolutely zonked. I'd say that's 500 at least.
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