Cleaning As An Exercise.

I have counted it as exercise before, but only on days when I dont get any other work out in

Ok, I'm sorry if I offend anyone out there...but cleaning is NOT an exercise. Yes, you burn calories doing it and sometimes you can even break a sweat doing it, but cleaning is apart of every day life and should be treated as just another thing tacked onto your daily activity level.

Anyone out there agree with me?

I disagree to a point. While there's daily cleaning (wipeups, light dusting, laundry) things like scrubbing the floor, vacuuming, and cleaning the base boards or behind furniture isn't a daily thing for the average person. So this definitely would be extra activity.

I agree somewhat. I agree that everyday cleaning is just that and if you have set your lifestyle accordingly you shouldn't count it as an exercise. However, when you are scrubbing, walls, floors, moving furniture around, and really doing a thorough cleaning that you don't always do daily, you can count it as an exercise. I add cleaning under exercise when I do these sorts of things, but not when I vacuum, dust, wash floors with a mop,... which I consider all normal weekly cleaning. Also, if you have your lifestyle set for sedentary then cleaning would be an exercise since you are more than just sitting at a desk. All depends on the person and the lifestyle!

I only ever count it as exercise if it's like above and beyond cleaning.. like the other day.. i weeded my flower beds, we had a tree fall on the house, we cut that up and moved it, i clean our bathroom i MEAN SCRUBBED, moved furniture to clean under it and moved it back cleaned out closets, packed boxes of stuff to get rid of, moved those all over the place, and etc.. but it took me ALL DAY like 6-7 hours NON STOP but i only logged 2 hours of it.. and still did a workout for the day..

well, if you never clean - then it IS exercise to you! lol

hahhaha right?!

its an exercise if you wear a HRM and burn more than 100 cal in 30 minutes, otherwise... not really

I agree....I only count Spring cleaning. You know the crazy hardcore kind.

I think it is pretty funny when someone logs cleaning everyday for 6 months.

I don't log my cleaning, I also don't log my walk to and from the gym even though it takes me 40 minutes because these are things I normally do. I do however log my walk to work.

I agree with some of the other posters. I only log it as exercise when I do deep cleaning, such as moving furniture to clean walls & base boards or getting down on hands and knees to scrub floors. The light every day stuff though I wont log, but if it took me hours and I am completely beat afterwards for sure I am logging it.

I do hard-core cleaning once a week, and I do count it towards my exercise calories. It's a great motivator to clean, and some of us slobs really need that motivation! :laugh:

Don't worry about what other people track as exercise, what good does that do you?

I actually do not agree with you completely. I do not count my laundry and dusting and picking up things but I do count it if I do an extra cleaning. It can even be spring cleaning which is not done all of the time only a couple times a year and other things like that. It is still the body moving in such a way that burns calories so I do not see why it could not count. Some people I know went from eating whatever they wanted and sitting around all day to watching what they eat and starting to move. So those are things they had not done in the past that the body now has to compensate for. It is overall burning calories. Total thought is don't starve your body and be happy for everything you do that is keeping you active...even if it as little as cleaning to some people. As long as you are loosing you are working towards a goal to loose weight and better yourself. Be proud of yourselves for that 30 minutes you cleaned and that 30 minutes you ran hard, or even that 30 minute workout you used to scream at but you continued to push and now can do it well!

I don't count it unless it's an unsually heavy cleaning. I also don't count the 100 jumping jacks I did for a challenge. My question is why does it matter other people count? They aren't making you count it so how does this impact you?

Where's that dead horse GIF when you need it...

i strongly disagree with this, i count it as exercise because im a stay at home mom and some days thats all the exercise i can get in, it isnt like im taking the garbage out and saying i spent 5 minutes exercising...

I don't agree either. I work at a desk 5 days a week. When I clean on the weekends, it's not just dusting or doing my weekday chores, like dish washing, making bed, etc. It's hauling laundry up and down, moping, taking trash out, bending over and scrubbing tubs/toilets etc. While my heart rate may not be 150bpm, I'm certainly breaking a huge sweat and on the move constantly for a period of 3-4 hours easily.

I may not log my cleaning routines into my exercise log but I for sure put out quite in effort in getting all that done. And you can't say it's not exercise for someone who is maybe 300lbs overweight. Just the fact that they are on the move around the house and not sedentary is an improvement! No need to bash people for it.

Where's that dead horse GIF when you need it...

Check the eating back you exercise calores, HGC, or TOM threads.

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