How Many Calories are Burned by Cleaning?
For farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort, which is a typical intensity activity under the general description of cleaning activities, the average calories burned by a person weighing 190 pounds (86 Kg) in 30 minutes is 151 Calories. In one hour farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort will burn 302 Calories.
Summary of Cleaning Information and Charts
To help you find the information you need, we first focus on farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort which is the most common cleaning activity. This is followed by the activities with the highest burn rate which is farming, vigorous effort (e.g., baling hay, cleaning barn), and the lowest which is farming, light effort (e.g., cleaning animal sheds, preparing animal feed), giving the average calories burned per minute and per hour, along with food calorie equivalents and our new proprietary calories burned score© and calories burned rank©The calorie score gives an indication of the relative burn rate of the cleaning activities measured as a percentage score out of 100 for the different cleaning activities, where 100% is the maximum calorie burn which we estimate from running at a pace of 4 minutes per mile which is a world class speed for running for 30 mins.
The calorie rank is the rank of the cleaning activity compared with all other 800 activities in our database to give an indication of the percentage of activities which have a higher or lower calorie burn. A rank of 1 means it is the highest ranking activity in terms or calorie burn and a rank of 100 means it is the activity with the lowest carlorie burn compared with all other activities.
Effect of Intensity on the Calorie Calculator
Although the above is a typical example for cleaning, the calculator we use to determine the calories burnt depends on the intensity, duration and your body weight. At the bottom of the article we have a variety of different intensities which can be personalized based on your weight and the duration of the activities, using our free calculator.
Calorie Score and Calorie Rank for Cleaning
At dietandfitnesstoday we have a new proprietary concept of a Calories Burned Score© and Calories Burned Rank©.
Calories Burned in 30 Minutes for a Typical cleaning Activity
As we have previously mentioned Farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort is a moderate and typical level of intensity for cleaning and can be used as a general representative approximate measure for calories burnt by cleaning. For this activity in 30 minutes an average man weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) burns 151 Calories, while an average woman weighing 163 pounds (74 kg), in 30 minutes burns 129 Calories.
Calories Per Minute
The calories burned per minute for Farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort is 5 Calories per minute, for a typical man and for a typical female is 4 Calories per minute.
Calories Per Hour
The calories lost in one hour is 302 calories for a typical man, and 259 calories in one hour for a typical woman.
How to Burn 100 Calories
To burn 100 calories for a typical male would require 20 minutes of the activity farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort and to burn 100 calories with the same cleaning activity for a typical female would take 25 minutes.
Score and Rank
Farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort has a Calorie Burned Score© of 12.40 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 12.40 % of the highest realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calorie Burned Rank© of 80.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 80.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 486.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort
Equivalent Activities
The following activities burn the same number of calories as Farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort -
- bicycling for leisure at 5.5 mph
- bicycling, stationary, 30-50 watts, very light to light effort
- calisthenics, light or moderate effort, general (e.g., back exercises), going up & down from floor (Taylor Code 150)
- canoeing, rowing, for pleasure, general (Taylor Code 250)
- Caribbean dance (Abakua, Beguine, Bellair, Bongo, Brukin's, Caribbean Quadrills, Dinki Mini, Gere, Gumbay, Ibo, Jonkonnu, Kumina, Oreisha, Jambu)
Comparison with Inactivity
30 mins of inactivity for example just sitting and watching television burns 43 calories for a typical man and 37 calories for a typical woman. Which means Farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort burns 3.8 times more calories than the equivalent time of inactivity for an average man and 3.5 times more calories for an average female.
Food Calorie Equivalents
This level of 151 calories burnt by an average man farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort is equivalent to 0.3 Big Macs, 0.5 snickers bar, 1.3 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 0.5 cheeseburgers, 0.5 slices of pizza or 0.4 large blueberry muffins.
For an average female burning 129 calories is equivalent to 0.2 Big Macs, 0.5 snickers bar, 1.1 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 0.4 cheeseburgers, 0.5 slices of pizza or 0.3 large blueberry muffins.
Weight Loss from Cleaning
To answer the question how many pounds will I lose from the activity cleaning? Taking this example of farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort in 30 minutes, the weight loss for a typical man is a minimum of 0.02 pounds, and a typical woman would lose 0.02 pounds.
Based on 4 sessions per week of farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort for a duration of 30 minutes per session, the approximate time taken to lose one pound is 13 weeks for a man and 13 weeks for a woman, assuming no other changes in lifestyle or eating habits.
The same 4 sessions per week of farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort for a duration of 30 minutes per session, would lose 1kg in 5 weeks for a man and 6 weeks for a woman.
Cleaning Activity with the Highest Calorie Burn
The highest number of calories burned for an average person is achieved by farming, vigorous effort (e.g., baling hay, cleaning barn). For this activity in 30 minutes an average man burns 336 Calories, while an average woman in 30 minutes burns 288 Calories.
This activity of farming, vigorous effort (e.g., baling hay, cleaning barn) has a Calories Burned Score© of 31.80 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 31.80 % of the maximum realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calories Burned Rank© of 51.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 51.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 149.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than farming, vigorous effort (e.g., baling hay, cleaning barn)
Cleaning Activity with the Lowest Calorie Burn
The cleaning activity with the lowest calories burnt is farming, light effort (e.g., cleaning animal sheds, preparing animal feed), which for an average man in 30 minutes burns 86 Calories, and for an average woman burns 74 Calories.
This activity of farming, light effort (e.g., cleaning animal sheds, preparing animal feed) has a Calories Burned Score© of 5.70 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 5.70 % of the maximum realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calories Burned Rank© of 92.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 92.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 712.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than farming, light effort (e.g., cleaning animal sheds, preparing animal feed)
Average Calories Burned by Cleaning
Based on the the list of 22 cleaning activities, shown below, the average calories burned for an average male, weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) is 164 Calories for 30 minutes of cleaning. The average burnt for an average female, weighing 163 pounds (74 kg) is 141 Calories for 30 minutes of cleaning.
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