Gardening - really?!?!?!
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joilet
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So I did an hour and a half of gardening on Saturday, and MFP said I burned 418 calories.
I just didnt' believe it, so to be safe I cut it in half. That doesn't seem possible.
Would a HRM be accurate while gardening?
I just didnt' believe it, so to be safe I cut it in half. That doesn't seem possible.
Would a HRM be accurate while gardening?
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I'm curious about this too! I do a lot of gardening!0
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I was wondering the same thing.....(hoping it was correct) but still wondering0
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Gardening is great exercise - mostly because you really DON'T know how much you are doing because you are so focused. But it you think of the bending over, kneeling, reaching, pulling, pulling, etc. as being exercise similar to the kind of aerobic exercises you do (at least in the warm up stages) and then also some strength building exercises, then it is easier to see how you can burn so many calories. Think about how sore your muscles are after you have spent 4- 5 hours in the yard or garden. The backs of your legs, abdomen, arms, shoulders, lower back - all usually ache and are sore for several days. This indicates those muscle groups are being worked more than your usual exercise pattern. I would believe any number an HRM gives me. If Exercise isn't your "normal" routine, then count it - I certainly do.
Blessings as you continue on your journey to a healthier and happier you.
Vickie0 -
I wore a hrm and mfp was a bit high-- and I was hoeing/making rows/putting up trellis and planting a big garden0
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Yesterday i did some major cleaning in my house, my HRM said I burned 600 over a 4 hour period.
I think gardening does burn a lot of calories, isn't that the reason why a lot of women have affairs with the gardener:laugh:0 -
I spent 2 hours mowing yesterday, with my HRM, stayed in my target zone for most of it, and burned 914 calories!! It is a lot of work!0
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Yes, gardening burns calories. In my case, an hour's worth of gardening is just over 300 calories burnt on MFP. And I believe it might actually be more in reality.
I call gardening "useful yoga"0 -
all right people I gotta get out in the garden, lol0
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Not to be devils advocate, but daily chores like gardening, or laundry, or walking to the mailbox are a general part of life. Is it really necessary to log in EVERYTHING? Besides, I think most would agree that myfitnesspal doesn't always have the best judgement as to how many calories you burn, I think it tends to overestimate. Sorry to sound all pessimistic.0
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"Gardening" is a pretty broad term.
It encompasses everything from tilling top soil and carrying bags of mulch to planting flowers around the borders of the yard.
A HRM would give you a better picture of what you are burning.0 -
I wouldn't say that is accurate. MFP never matches up with what the treadmill says when it comes to calories burned. MFP is always a little over, but who's to say MFP is correct and the treadmill is wrong???0
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I wore a hrm and mfp was a bit high-- and I was hoeing/making rows/putting up trellis and planting a big garden
I think it really depends on just what you are doing while gardening. This MFP member did gardening that required a lot of effort. Likewise, another member pushed around a lawn mower which probably burned a lot. If you were just sitting on the ground putting seeds in holes then you probably didn't burn much. The item "gardening" is extremely vague. I would not trust the number because you do not know what the makers of MFP considered gardening when creating this item.0 -
If it's true then it kinda motivates you to have the best landscaped yard on the block, doesn't it...lol.:laugh:0
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I was moving this weekend and was tempted to wear my hrm but then decided to pretend i didnt burn them and save them for a raining day when im not doing something so productive0
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I don't add garden but I do add when I mow since it only happen once a week or once every other week but garden happens almost every day and just like cleaning is daily.0
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Not to be devils advocate, but daily chores like gardening, or laundry, or walking to the mailbox are a general part of life. Is it really necessary to log in EVERYTHING? Besides, I think most would agree that myfitnesspal doesn't always have the best judgement as to how many calories you burn, I think it tends to overestimate. Sorry to sound all pessimistic.
If you don't garden all the time.. I don't see a problem with adding it. We recently uprooted two plants and planted two bushes and a tree. I u0 -
I know nothing of the gardening debate. i know that when I'm done gardening( I mean mulching, pulling ivy, mowing, digging,hedge trimming, raking- the harder stuff, not just maintannence pruning or weed pulling) I am sweating through a shirt, and while it is not an aerobic exercise, I know I am burning calories. I like the idea of cutting it in half though.
As for the treadmill, eliptical etc. The trainer at my gym says that the machines are too low.0 -
* I put it in my phone because its a lot of work. I also mowed for over an hour yesterday. MFP was pretty accurate in my calories burned because I looked it up on two other websites as well. Both good burns.0
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It's tricky. A friend of mine lost 30 lbs a few years ago staying on a diet and mowing her 2 acres lawn EVERY day with a push mower. On the other hand, last Saturday, I cut and removed 5 trees, cut them for fire wood and stacked it on a pile, shlepped all the branches away, raked an entire acre of lawn. It took me 6 hours - technically I burned 2000 calories just doing that - and ate about 1600. The next day I registered a weight gain of 2 lbs. Go figure!0
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It's tricky. A friend of mine lost 30 lbs a few years ago staying on a diet and mowing her 2 acres lawn EVERY day with a push mower. On the other hand, last Saturday, I cut and removed 5 trees, cut them for fire wood and stacked it on a pile, shlepped all the branches away, raked an entire acre of lawn. It took me 6 hours - technically I burned 2000 calories just doing that - and ate about 1600. The next day I registered a weight gain of 2 lbs. Go figure!
Your muscles held on to the water! They will do that on really hard work outs.0
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