Horsey activities and calories burned!??

[Hels_Bells]

Now the dark days are moving behind us I'm trying to loose some of the pounds added by all that stodge I had to eat over winter to keep warm!!!

Am trying to keep an exercise/food diary which has worked well for me in the past but am just wondering how many calories do we burn doing all our horsey chores.

Every day without fail I spend about 60 minutes in the morning, mucking out 2, and feed prepping, rug changing, water and haynet filling etc for 3. Then again in the evening I spend about 20-30 minutes bringing them in, making up more feeds etc etc.

All I have to go on is apparently 30 minutes of horse grooming can burn off 108 calories; and 15 minutes of mucking out burns off 55 calories....

But who actually spends 30 minutes vigorously grooming a horse?? It probably takes me about 10-15 minutes to actually muck out my two but am not necessarily performing something akin to digging a hole during this time!!!

How many calories are burned during that hour, when I'm changing rugs, walking back and forth accross yard carrying buckets etc, filling water buckets and other little tasks!!!!? I have seen a couple of threads on here which provide some help but am still not convinced I'm burning off all those calories doing my chores!!!!

 

[Ladylina83]

It must be LOADS

I have just started riding mine again + a friends so say 6 times 20mins a week + jobs as they have been coming in at night and taking hay up the field for my friends 6 ponies (so thats a lot of hay !!!)... I have also been eating like a PIG - I mean like toast cereals Pizza Pasta Cheese bread and butter and chocolate biscuits and my wieght has stayed the same !!! Normally I eat a really balanced diet and only have to think about a hobnob and I balloon !

It is hidden exercise ( like I have been walking up the field and back 3 times more than normal) I bet if you stopped you would notice !!

I wouldn't really class it as exercise as such just activity - count your riding as exercise though

 

[debsey1]

I've had my new horse coming up 3 weeks and I have definately lost weight (althought haven't weighed myself). Mornings consist of rugging up mine and my sisters horse, turning out to field x 2, mucking out 2 stables, filling haynets & water buckets and finally, a general sweep up. Plus, before all of this I walk 2 dogs for 30 mins.

At weekends and my day off I ride for approximately an hour and a half each day, more when the evenings stay lighter for longer.

If I haven't lost weight I've defianately toned up