weirdest thing youve seen logged as exercise?

Clarecbear82
Clarecbear82 Posts: 369 Member
edited October 7 in Chit-Chat
What's the strangest/funniest thing you've seen logged as exercise?

Mine would be "singing standing up"
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  • jasmineheaven
    jasmineheaven Posts: 189
    cardio during sexual "release"...kind of hard to figure out the calories lost lol
  • LJCannon
    LJCannon Posts: 3,636 Member
    :happy: It's not 'Weird' exactly, but I love "Kicking My Own Butt At The Gym". It cracks me up every time I see it!
  • thelovelyLIZ
    thelovelyLIZ Posts: 1,227 Member
    I always think people logging sex is pretty silly. I mean, you have to be having REALLY active sex for a pretty long time for the calorie count to be more the negligible in my opinion. But the again, I don't log anything other than intentional exercise, so I don't accidentally exceed my calories. So if I go window shopping for three hours, none of those walking calories will be logged.
  • raevynn
    raevynn Posts: 666 Member
    One of my MFP buddies posted hers as "2 calories burned sitting around listening to boring stories with relatives" once...

    I have another MFP friend who posts his calories burned "building the body of a GOD"
  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
    Someone posted on my news feed that they saw "nagging" as cardio posted! :laugh:
  • Clarecbear82
    Clarecbear82 Posts: 369 Member
    Someone posted on my news feed that they saw "nagging" as cardio posted! :laugh:

    If nagging is cardio according to my partner I should be tiny by now
  • candykay0605
    candykay0605 Posts: 1,019 Member
    about the sex comments if you google it you will find MANY MANY articles about how sex burns LOTS of calories now of course you have to do more than just lay there and they say having an orgasm burns calories. look it up :)
  • pinkprincessmama
    pinkprincessmama Posts: 52 Member
    Cleaning. To me that is just part of everyday life- not an exercise!
  • candykay0605
    candykay0605 Posts: 1,019 Member
    I would say thats according to what kind of cleaning. My daily cleaning NO def not an exercise, now weeked cleaning includes climbing up and down out of chairs scrubbing walls baseboards ect, and moving lots of furniture. By the end of the day, i am sweaty and very tired.:smile:
  • chevy88grl
    chevy88grl Posts: 3,937 Member
    I would say thats according to what kind of cleaning. My daily cleaning NO def not an exercise, now weeked cleaning includes climbing up and down out of chairs scrubbing walls baseboards ect, and moving lots of furniture. By the end of the day, i am sweaty and very tired.:smile:

    I agree. Day to day, normal cleaning? No. But, if I'm moving furniture, steam cleaning, or scrubbing floors on my hands and knees? You can bet I'll count it. If my heart is pounding and sweat is pouring off me? THAT is a workout - regardless of the fact that I didn't complete it in a gym or in front of my tv.
  • anyonebutmehaha
    anyonebutmehaha Posts: 174
    I would say thats according to what kind of cleaning. My daily cleaning NO def not an exercise, now weeked cleaning includes climbing up and down out of chairs scrubbing walls baseboards ect, and moving lots of furniture. By the end of the day, i am sweaty and very tired.:smile:

    *sends her the address to my house*:smile:
  • Kenzietea2
    Kenzietea2 Posts: 1,132 Member
    about the sex comments if you google it you will find MANY MANY articles about how sex burns LOTS of calories now of course you have to do more than just lay there and they say having an orgasm burns calories. look it up :)

    It doesn't burn a lot. Yes you burn calories, but the calorie burn is quite minimal. http://boonethink.com/?p=121
    Not saying you shouldn't have fun trying though ;)
  • tmarie2715
    tmarie2715 Posts: 1,111 Member
    I would say thats according to what kind of cleaning. My daily cleaning NO def not an exercise, now weeked cleaning includes climbing up and down out of chairs scrubbing walls baseboards ect, and moving lots of furniture. By the end of the day, i am sweaty and very tired.:smile:

    That's my cleaning logging, too. :) Obviously I am not counting daily time spent picking up toys, cooking and prepping food, sweeping, dishes, laundry...
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
    Cleaning. To me that is just part of everyday life- not an exercise!

    Ditto, that and preparing food, cos usually they just phone a takeaway? lol
  • ejohndrow
    ejohndrow Posts: 1,399 Member
    -The people who get on here and ask if they can count standing up, like at a cash register, as exercise, and
    -The lady who asked if she could count 'sitting quietly on a bus' as exercise always seemed pretty ridiculous to me.
  • ejohndrow
    ejohndrow Posts: 1,399 Member
    Cleaning. To me that is just part of everyday life- not an exercise!

    Ditto, that and preparing food, cos usually they just phone a takeaway? lol
    Or the people that buy a heartrate monitor, and they basically start counting being alive as exercise, and they insist they've done EVERYTHING possible and still can't lose weight.
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
    Cleaning. To me that is just part of everyday life- not an exercise!

    Ditto, that and preparing food, cos usually they just phone a takeaway? lol
    Or the people that buy a heartrate monitor, and they basically start counting being alive as exercise, and they insist they've done EVERYTHING possible and still can't lose weight.

    Finally, people on my wavelength, I read some of the diary's and statuses and think "you're only lying to yourself, I'm not arsed if you put a stone on this week" lol :happy:
  • cramernh
    cramernh Posts: 3,335 Member
    Playing woodwind instruments...


    I had to run that through a few medical professionals that I used to work for and ask them for the validity of this.. and they all came back indicating that you do in fact burn some calories but probably not as high as MFP is reporting... so I still record it (I play bassoon for two large music groups), but I decrease it by 33%... all of the doctors agreed that would be more accurate...
  • candykay0605
    candykay0605 Posts: 1,019 Member
    about the sex comments if you google it you will find MANY MANY articles about how sex burns LOTS of calories now of course you have to do more than just lay there and they say having an orgasm burns calories. look it up :)

    It doesn't burn a lot. Yes you burn calories, but the calorie burn is quite minimal. http://boonethink.com/?p=121
    Not saying you shouldn't have fun trying though ;)

    hey for me a calorie burned is a calorie burned :)
  • candykay0605
    candykay0605 Posts: 1,019 Member
    I would say thats according to what kind of cleaning. My daily cleaning NO def not an exercise, now weeked cleaning includes climbing up and down out of chairs scrubbing walls baseboards ect, and moving lots of furniture. By the end of the day, i am sweaty and very tired.:smile:

    That's my cleaning logging, too. :) Obviously I am not counting daily time spent picking up toys, cooking and prepping food, sweeping, dishes, laundry...
    exactly on the weekends I bust may tail cleaning, and climbing up and down from a chair is considered exercise! and i do do it more than once< i have vaulted celings! and if moving furniture all day isnt burning calories I wanna know why i have sweat pouring off of me by the time im finished at the end of the day!
  • christibear
    christibear Posts: 93 Member
    I agree about the sex thing, it really only burns between 80-140 calories per half hour which really is not that much, I read once that you have to be a pretty acrobatic and wild for sex to make any real difference so for most people I definitely do not its worth logging, although I usually do not log any single exercise where I burn under 100 calories if that is the only thing I did that day.
  • KathPearce
    KathPearce Posts: 146 Member
    I would say thats according to what kind of cleaning. My daily cleaning NO def not an exercise, now weeked cleaning includes climbing up and down out of chairs scrubbing walls baseboards ect, and moving lots of furniture. By the end of the day, i am sweaty and very tired.:smile:

    *sends her the address to my house*:smile:

    LOL! Love this :)
  • brittanyjeanxo
    brittanyjeanxo Posts: 1,831 Member
    I used to have someone log their.purging as a burn, and every time they went up or down stairs.
  • CrystalMarie253
    CrystalMarie253 Posts: 128
    One of my MFP buddies posted hers as "2 calories burned sitting around listening to boring stories with relatives" once...

    I have another MFP friend who posts his calories burned "building the body of a GOD"

    LOL!!!!
  • tproctor
    tproctor Posts: 90 Member
    SEX!!!
  • LuckyAng
    LuckyAng Posts: 1,173 Member
    I would say thats according to what kind of cleaning. My daily cleaning NO def not an exercise, now weeked cleaning includes climbing up and down out of chairs scrubbing walls baseboards ect, and moving lots of furniture. By the end of the day, i am sweaty and very tired.:smile:

    *sends her the address to my house*:smile:

    LOL! Love this :)

    Me too :)
  • busterbluth
    busterbluth Posts: 115 Member
    Now I want to get a HRM and wear it during sex to find out. I feel like I sweat more while boning than I do at the gym!
  • SassyCalyGirl
    SassyCalyGirl Posts: 1,932 Member
    "shopping at the mall"- LMAO
  • smithjol74
    smithjol74 Posts: 4
    Yeah but they also have articles on the internet that say Elvis is still alive, and that cystic fibrosis has a cure!
  • candykay0605
    candykay0605 Posts: 1,019 Member
    that is why they teach you in school(high and college) that any web sites that dont have .edu, .org, ect cannot be considered usable information and they will give you F's on papers that you quote information from any other source.
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