Silly Question

There is actually an "cleaning" under the excercise database. Just enter cleaning in the search, and they have moderate and vigerous. Good Luck!

me personally wouldn't count that as exercise- I don't even count cutting my huge yard with a push mower as exercise- But thats just me others may count it-

Here is my thing if I did it before and still had this weight to lose then Im not going to count it-- I only count exercise as excercise- when I strap on my HRM and hit the gym thats exercise or when/if I pop a dvd in thats exercise, or when I hit the street for 3-5 miles walking/jogging thats exercise- Everything else is just a plus in my book.

i WOULD count it...do you clean your house every day for 6 hrs? it IS extra activity, whether or not you raised your heart rate. if someone has a job at a desk all day and does this instead....it is a change in normal activity. Good for you and what an accomplishment! YIPPY for you....makes me want to tear into my house!

technically, if your raising your heart rate it's exercise. But in reality, it all depends on if you FEEL it. An HRM would help with that. Other then that you're just guessing.

Mama, I don't know about you, but when I swim, I FEEL it. Course I do laps alternating freestyle, breast, and backstroke so maybe you are talking about something else. But I'm in pretty decent shape, and I feel it mightily.

technically, if your raising your heart rate it's exercise. But in reality, it all depends on if you FEEL it. An HRM would help with that. Other then that you're just guessing.

Mama, I don't know about you, but when I swim, I FEEL it. Course I do laps alternating freestyle, breast, and backstroke so maybe you are talking about something else. But I'm in pretty decent shape, and I feel it mightily.

if im going easy, then no, i dont feel it, but yes, you are right, if you are doing laps..you WILL feel it..and yea, my heart definalty was going up..I dont see how carrying heavy baskets of clothes, a vucuum and running up and down 2 flights of stairs repeatatly WOULD'NT raise you HR...

It might, some, it depends on how long you are active. The problem with housework is, the majority of the time you are doing less strenuous stuff. Or to be more specific, less strenuous to someone who is in reasonable health. If you are very sedentary (as Matty said) then maybe it will raise your heart rate enough to count. It's relative so it's tough to answer this definitively. An HRM would definitly help. I know for me, I tend to do one thing at a time (laundry, dishes, vaccum...etc) so the amount of time I'm actually carrying stuff up and down stairs totals less then a minute. Which doesn't even burn 10 calories so I wouldn't consider it exercise. But I guess if the time you are actually laboring with stuff is up around the 8 or 10 minute mark, then yeah, I think you could count it. what you would put in for calories without having an HRM though, that's a difficult one to answer.

And don't forget, she said she was also moving furniture.... This sounds like a major spring cleaning, not your everyday run of the mill dusting, vacuuming, and doing dishes.

And, she logged it as light, and for less time than she actually spent, so it sounds as if she's accounting for the easier cleaning jobs...

I would definately log it myself, if I spent 6 hours spring cleaning! I only do 15 or 20 minutes a day (I have 4 kids who all do chores, I love slave labor), with a couple of trips up and down stairs for laundry. I don't count my normal stuff, but if I spent 6 hours doing out of the ordinary stuff, oh yeah, I'd be counting it!