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Calorie burn for playing flute??
lorrpb
Posts: 11,463 Member
Someone on my feed logged 248 calories for playing flute for an hour. Really?
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Hey I logged 98 calories for driving and then another 53 for typing.3
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Why? That would be included in your daily activity level setting.4
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I often wonder how much extra I burn playing (cello) - especially at gigs that go for hours.2
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I saw someone log their calories for sleeping once. Was amazed MFP actually had a calorie burn for it. That was before I knew people just put in random stuff.2
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Lol
Many moons ago, my brother-in-law was in a band that opened for Jethro Tull and I went to see him play. As soon as I read the OP I thought of that concert.1 -
Perhaps "playing the flute" is a euphemism?21
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Same tour. I took this at the Cincinnati concert in 1976. And yeah, Anderson probably burned about 1000 calories per concert.
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I drove to get take out for the fam. 17 calories logged.5
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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »I often wonder how much extra I burn playing (cello) - especially at gigs that go for hours.
I belive that cello and flute share the same "music playing" database entry! Seriously.1 -
Everything I want to say would land me with a warning, a bunch of dirty PMs or both.8
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How many calories do you burn spreading butter?1
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NorthCascades wrote: »How many calories do you burn spreading butter?
About the same amount that you do when digging into a pint of Ben and Jerrys. Bonus burn if the pint is frozen solid.
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I can eat half of those calories back, right?5
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You can eat all of them back because you have to work do hard to get it out. In fact, I think ice cream is a negative calorie food.5
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I saw someone log 2000+ calories burned for working on their car (Mechanical) for a few hours.1
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HellYeahItsKriss wrote: »I saw someone log 2000+ calories burned for working on their car (Mechanical) for a few hours.
Perhaps it broke down and they pushed it home... Up a hill?3 -
Lol i was thinking they must of held the car up over their head with one hand while fixing it.. but yes, i suppose they could have.
I also enjoy the several thousand calorie burns of "Cleaning light moderate effort" that people do for 5-6 hours... like.. really? lol2 -
We know nothing about why this person chose to log this activity or why the person chose that amount of time.
I have logged this activity in the past, and had no problem losing weight. There are any number of situations were this would be a reasonable estimate for Calories burned.
An MFP estimate for 248 Calories for 60 minutes of "Music playing, cello, flute, horn, woodwind" corresponds to a person weighing 272 lbs.
If a person were obese, set at MFP Sedentary, set to lose 1.5 to 2 pounds per week, logs only a portion of the time of the activity or plans to eat back only a portion of the estimate, and normally does not log other activity; logging this activity would be a valid reason.
Playing a musical instrument may not burn many Calories above a person's BMR, but the only wrong estimate for how many Calories burned above Sedentary would be zero.
The MFP exercise Calorie estimate is based on a multiplication factor METs (metabolic equivalent of tasks) applied to a person's BMR (METs = 1.0). The MFP Exercise Database lists "Music playing, cello, flute, horn, woodwind" as having METs = 2.0; which seems to be the lowest METs value for any activity in the MFP Exercise Database. For comparison, "Walking, 2.0 mph, slow pace" and "Yoga" have METs = 2.5.
I play clarinet in a community band. Prior to getting a Fitbit, I was set at MFP Sedentary and set to a 1 lb loss per week. When I attended my weekly two-hour rehearsals, I did not log the activity in the MFP Exercise Diary, because there would be plenty of down time during rehearsals when the conductor would work with other sections. However, when we would play a two-hour concert, I would be playing the clarinet for a good portion of that time, and I would log the activity for only 1 hour, and then eat back a portion of those Calories.5 -
If it was this guy, I'd totally believe it.
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Beat me to it. That dude can play. Does things that no Julliard professor would ever have thought a flute could do.1 -
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HellYeahItsKriss wrote: »Lol i was thinking they must of held the car up over their head with one hand while fixing it.. but yes, i suppose they could have.
I also enjoy the several thousand calorie burns of "Cleaning light moderate effort" that people do for 5-6 hours... like.. really? lol
I play the flute while cleaning, so I get double burn, but I'm still not losing weight! If I also eat ice cream will that help?
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Yeah, I have alway liked the calorie burn of "cleaning house...vigorously"0
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Skin flute?
Still probably a bit high. And for an hour? Ouch.0 -
This one time, at band camp...5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqZD7wVxSi0
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