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Estimate calories burned sweeping indoors, sweeping outside and dusting, from your body weight and minutes on each task.
The Sweeping Calorie Burn Calculator estimates the energy cost of a cleaning session by splitting it into sweeping outdoors, sweeping indoors and dusting, then applying the MET equation kcal/min = MET x 3.5 x kg / 200 to each block. The MET values come from the Home Activities section of the Compendium of Physical Activities: 4.0 for sweeping a garage, driveway or path, 3.3 for sweeping floors or carpet indoors and 2.3 for light dusting and tidying. It is for anyone who wants housework counted properly rather than lumped under one vague figure.
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Indoor sweeping, outdoor sweeping and dusting are each priced at their own MET value.
Reports the blended MET for the whole session, so you can see which activity band it falls in.
Subtracts resting metabolism to show the extra energy the chores actually cost.
About 190 kcal an hour for a 55 kg person sweeping indoor floors at the Compendium's 3.3 MET value, and roughly 230 kcal an hour sweeping outdoors at 4.0 METs. A 20-minute indoor sweep is around 64 kcal at that weight.
Yes. Sweeping indoors at 3.3 METs and outdoors at 4.0 METs both sit inside the 3.0 to 5.9 MET moderate-intensity band, so the minutes can count towards the WHO target of 150 to 300 moderate minutes a week. Dusting at 2.3 METs is light activity and does not.
Rough concrete, longer strokes and heavier debris all raise the effort, and outdoor sweeping usually covers more ground. The Compendium reflects that with 4.0 METs for sweeping a garage, path or the outside of a house against 3.3 for indoor floors and carpet.
It is worth logging, but at 2.3 METs dusting is light activity — roughly 130 kcal an hour for a 55 kg person. It contributes to total daily movement rather than to a moderate-intensity target. Treat all these figures as informational and consult a professional for medical activity advice.
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