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Need Snow Shoveling as an activity

7070614
1 month ago

Need to add an activity for snow shoveling. I was planning on going to the gym today, but after 90 minutes of shoveling myself out of yesterday's storm, I think that counts! Would be nice to have Snow Shoveling as an activity to log. Just sayin'.

  • 0 1 month ago

    If you want to log that, you can record that as Cardio and change the activity name to snow shoveling later in Garmin Connect.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Bitti

    Thank you. Yes, that's exactly what I did. But still, that workaround doesn't provide the same trackable features and functionality as if it were an "official" activity. 

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to 7070614

    I agree. But to be honest, if snow shoveling was included in the list of activities, one could probably easily come up with tens if not hundreds of similar activities (raking leaves, chopping wood, digging a hole, plowing a garden, stacking boxes, ...) which would completely clutter up the activity type lists with quite little benefit. But of course you can submit your idea also officially (but I wouldn't keep my hopes up): www.garmin.com/.../

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Bitti

    Oh, your point isn't lost on me! I get what you're saying... when instating anything new in life, the slippery slope is always a danger. But still, the Garmin watch serves the purpose of tracking fitness improvement activity. As such, this new technology shouldn't be limited to only the traditional fitness/sports activities. It should be able to track any mainstream activity which enhances our fitness level. 

    So, why not add a new category called "outdoor work", or something to that effect? The slippery slope effect could be avoided by limiting the activities to those which exercise both anaerobic and aerobic functions.  I.e., snow shoveling, raking leaves, and chopping wood use lots of arm movement, upper body strength, torso strength, balance, and cardio. On the other hand, doing something like pushing a lawn mower would NOT count as that's essentially the same as walking, so as you said earlier, can be simply logged as "cardio". Gardening wouldn't count either due no strength or cardio benefits. 

    My point being, that such a category could be managed to include only the most often used four or five outdoor work activities (which again benefit both strength and cardio at the same time), thereby avoiding a slippery slope effect. 

    And thanks for that link! I didn't know it existed. I thought that these forums were for suggesting ideas. Silly me to think that Garmin reads them.