Add snow shoveling activity

[Grenon]

I see that a prior request to add snow shoveling was declined, but I'm asking again because these days, I am shoveling snow just about every day and it's a work out!  There are probably fewer who do it, but my other exercise is stacking wood.  Please help out the rural folks who can't get to a gym for spinning!

[Fishman1001]

If gardening is an activity than snow shovelling is a workout

[Grenon]

I actually use gardening when I have been shoveling.  It feels like a cruel joke made by some developers who live in California.

[Dmc2879]

I just got done shoveling for 30 minutes. Right when i walked out the door, I started the timer on my fitbit and tracked it that way. It counted it as active minutes, at least.

Moderator edit: format. 

[JGaryP]

My Charge 2 tracked it as Walking!  

[TCla]

Snow shoveling should be added. Or at least shoveling. It's a great workout and something we Canadians do on a regular basis for a few months a year! 

[JGaryP]

I discovered that Lawn Mowing is still in the list, so that's the one I use when I use my snowblower.  At the end of the day, I find I get almost as much of a workout with the snowblower as with shovelling -- if only because I usually limit my shovelling to light snowfalls and cleanup after the snowblower.  I find using the snowblower on straight stretches is much like lawn mowing, but clearing what the plow leaves behind and maneauvering the thing at the turns is heavier work.  We get enough snow here that doing it all by shovelling after a heavy snowfall is a major workout and not advisable.  We get several heart attacks and deaths every year from it.  If it were up to me, I'd add in Snow Blowing and Snow Shovelling.  But if I had to live with just one, then Snow Clearing might be a good choice to cover both.

[JuanJoFitbit]

@Grenon @Fishman1001 @Dmc2879 @JGaryP @TCla Thanks for joining us and participating in the Community! I see that this request was declined before. However, this doesn't mean that all the ideas submitted will be also declined. Our engineering team is actively checking out the board and making sure that your ideas are being reviewed. I found a recent suggestion requesting a "Shoveling" activity to be added as an exercise. Please take a look and vote for it.

Let me know if more questions arise! 

[CyndieRauls]

This needs to be a serious consideration... shoveling is aerobic as well as core strengthening. Have the FitBit powers that be never had to shovel? Yet ‘shooting’ shows up as an exercise option... seriously?  (I entered in snow in the search and shooting showed up.). 

[Robdude96]

Agree! Cannot believe this has been an open issue for so many years! Step up fitbit!!

[Reffa]

I've been wondering how to track the literally hours that I spend shoveling snow in Alberta! Please, please, please, add this activity, it's a full body workout!