Logging YARDWORK? Anyone know how besides "Mowing Lawn Gener

I use "gardening" when I'm doing miscellaneous yard work, aside from mowing the lawn.

I cant find anything besides "Mowing Lawn General." Is there anything else?

If you are logging yard work don't forget to back out maintenance calories, as the total you will get is total calories, not extra calories burned, so if yo don't back them out you will double count them, once in your daily allowance and again when entering the activity (if you don't back them out).

If your maintenance is 2200 cals that would be 1.53 cals/minute, which is not much but on low impact activities where you may only burn 4-5 cals/minute the maintenance cals make up a large % of the total burned.

Too much hassle man, I see yardwork as a normal part of the day / week; not a workout. I never count it as expenditure.

What do you mean, "Back them out?"

Well if you do yard work for 2 hours and burn 600 calories, you would have burned some had you not done the work and the 600 is the total burned over 2 hours, not the extra calories burned. So using my example above if your maintenance is 2200 cals you would back out 1.57 cals/min or 188 for the 2 hour workout, and you would only enter 412 (600-188) into MFP, as that is what you burned due to gardening as the 188 you would have burned had you done it or not.

I use one that is just "Yard Work" at 200 calories an hour. I am not sure if I created it or not but I got the cal/hr from when I used another calorie tracking site and my nutritionist agreed with the amount. If you are trying to lose weight I probably wouldn't track it but once you hit your target weight or start fine tuning the diet you will want to track it. Reason being, 200 calories X 3 days a week = 600, so do that for 6 weeks and you have "burned" another pound and if you are not giving the body that fuel it will take it from your muscle mass.