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Calories burned worm digging?

Posted by Sofia Downing 18 May, 2011

Can’t say I ever wondered how many calories I’d burn digging worms, but that didn’t stop me from being amused to find that very activity in the bible of energy expenditure, The Compendium of Physical Activities Tracking GuideSo, digging worms, with shovel? That’s a 40 MET activityWhat’s a MET?It stands for metabolic equivalent of task, and the easiest way to define it is as a reference, where 10 METs is the energy required to laze around doing nothing Worm digging with a shovel therefore, takes 4x the energy required to lie aroundActual calories burned will vary based on many factors, though a rough generalization would be that a 10 MET activity would burn 1kcal/kg/hr Laze around for an hour, and if you’re a 72kg guy like me, you’ll burn 72kcal doing soA great many folks trying to lose weight keep track of the calories they burn exercising Often they’ll use them as negative calories whereby they’ll subtract them from the calories they’ve consumed to give a net totalUnless you’re a truly hardcore record keeper or exerciser, I don’t think that’s the greatest planReason being is that record keeping is fraught with errorI’d look at your exercise as being a means to buffer your error, not as a means to lower your count Only exceptions there would be incredibly accurate record keepers, or folks who were exercising significant amounts The exercising folks, it’s not that I’d want them to calculate net calories, just that I think it’s important, if exercising for more than 45mins, to fuel properly so as to minimize the potential impact of exercise on hungerOh, and in case you were wondering, that same bible notes caulking or chinking a log cabin as a 50 MET activityPlaying the accordion? 18 Bookbinding? 23 Horse grooming? 60 Pushing a plane in and out of a hanger huh?? 60, and SCUBA diving as a navy frogman? 120

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