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cupcakes8kr
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Hi everyone, need some imput. I purchased a new HRM ( other one broke) . Wore it for the first time while cleaning the house. It registered that I burned 418 caloris? Is that possible? I didn't even wash floors.
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Sophie
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Sophie
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Hmm I dunno. I don't think HRM's can accurately track things like cleaning, but i'm no expert.
They're made for tracking true cardio exercise.0 -
Hi everyone, need some imput. I purchased a new HRM ( other one broke) . Wore it for the first time while cleaning the house. It registered that I burned 418 caloris? Is that possible? I didn't even wash floors.
Thanks
Sophie
Possible? Yes. Your body burns calories daily even if you're laying in coma.
That said, I find it worthless to count things such as cleaning the house as exercise calories. You're only going to hurt yourself in my opinion.0 -
How long did you clean the dang house????? HAHA
Yeah it's possible. I mean, HRM's generally are very accurate. Depending on your weight, how much effort your exerted and how long you did it then yeah, it's a definite possibility that's accurate.0 -
Hmmmm, that would make more sense0
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Hmm I dunno. I don't think HRM's can accurately track things like cleaning, but i'm no expert.
They're made for tracking true cardio exercise.
They're made for tracking your heart rate and the ratio of calories burned to that. They can track calories for anything as long as you have a heart beat.. but that doesn't mean you should count EVERYTHING you do as an exercise.0 -
Were you running around like a crazed monkey and wear a backpack full of bricks? hehe.
I would be suspect of those numbers.0 -
To get a more accurate number of extra calories burned you might wanna wear it when you're not doing anything for the same amount of time, and subtract that from how much it registered. We're all always passively burning some calories just be being alive but I don't think you would count the baseline metabolic functions as exercise.0
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LOL I cleaned for over two hours.
I just bought the HRM and was testing it out - normally I don't count that as true exercise.
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LOL Thanks for the vision of a crazed monkey Jeff made me smile0
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Cleaning the house is true cardio exercise, especially for more overweight people because it's a pretty difficult task for some people. Hell, I work up a sweating vacuuming the floor. Anything that gets your heart rate going and you breaking a sweat is true exercise. There is no manual that lays out what is considered "real" exercise and what isn't.0
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I would say no. And have you programmed it to your age, weight, height, etc, etc?0
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Yes , all set for my age, weight etc. I just deceided to take 1/2 of that as calories burned,0
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I wear a bodymediafit band, and house cleaning burns more calories for me than going out for a walk, depending on how vigorously I clean. (Being on my feet with light activity during the weekend burns more calories than sitting at work all day and then exercising hard for 60 minutes).0
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There is no manual that lays out what is considered "real" exercise and what isn't.
Sure there is, and it's quite simple. If you did it specifically for exercise, it's exercise and you count the Calories. If you would have done it anyways, such as cleaning or walking around the mall shopping, it's not exercise. There is some gray area however, because if you went to mall specifically to get exercise rather than to shop, then it counts because it was done just for exercise.0 -
Based on my stats - I wear an HRM when I exercise - if I were to do a cardio exercise, I burn at least 10 calories per minute. So in 2 hours that would get me 1200 calories that I've burnt. Since cleaning the house is a lot less intensive than cardio, for 2 hours of work, 400 calories would sound about right to me.0
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I would say no. And have you programmed it to your age, weight, height, etc, etc?
Definately agree with the above statement.0 -
I think it's possible. You'd burn that much in 2 hours by walking at a moderate pace. But like others said, do you really want to consider that exercise? Even a sedentary lifestyle takes into account regular stuff like housecleaning.0
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I would count it if it was something OUTSIDE of my normal activity levels.
And yes - it is possible to get a burn like that. Because of my size, I burn about 1000 in about 55 minutes of Zumba. This is with me trying to keep my arms below my heart for the most part so that my heart rate doesn't get too high. However, my friend (who is much smaller and works out a heck of a lot harder) only gets about a 700 calorie burn.0 -
On the flip side, if you are doing all of this at a fast pace, it could count. Work up a sweat? But IMHO, it might be just light walking as far as calories go0
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