Calories Burned While Hammering Calculator

Hammering is a strenuous activity and therefore you can burn a large number of calories while doing it. On average, you can burn 35 calories per 10 minutes of hammering, that’s 210 calories per hour. 

Read on to find out more about how hammering can positively impact your health, strength or weight loss goals and if having a job in the construction industry can equal in you achieving your weight loss goal.

How Many Calories Can You Burn While Hammering Nails?

Hammering nails is one of the most common activities needed when constructing something. Maybe you’re putting together some furniture or building an outdoor shed, a hammer and nails will certainly be in your toolbox. But, does this common activity help you burn calories?

Well, in fact, yes it does! If you were to hammer nails for 60 minutes you could burn an average of 210 calories! Of course, this depends on the effort and type of hammering you are doing as well as whether you’re just standing hammering nails into a wall or piece of wood or also carrying, pushing and lifting these items too. 

How Many Calories Will Be Burned After Hammering for 30 Minutes?

On average, people don’t tend to be hammering for hours on end, usually, you just need to put together something small or maybe hang a few pictures frames, right?

The average minutes spent doing these day to day hammering activities is about 30 minutes, so we will base our calorie counting on that timeframe. It’s been discovered that 10 minutes of hammering equals around 35 calories being burned, so 30 minutes could burn an average of 105 calories!

Pretty good just for doing a few household activities. Bear in mind that just hammering is a workout for the arms and upper body only. This could equal some serious weight loss and muscle toning in those specific areas. 

Do Construction Jobs Make You Burn a Lot Of Calories?

It’s well known that construction jobs are extremely hard on the body, the physical effort needed to do these roles is astonishing. Of course, it depends on the role that you do, some construction roles burn more calories than others. Take a look at the table below to see the average calories burned per construction role.

Construction Role	Average Calories Burned Per Hour	Notes
Engineer	129	Engineering can be tough work, but a lot of this is just handwork rather than work for the whole body.
Light equipment operator	179	Tools such as electric drills are classed as light equipment but even handling these can burn some calories.
Plumbing	215	This can be an exhausting job by itself, let alone carrying the heavy piping, it’s a decent workout for a spot of weekend work.
Wallpapering	217	Applying wallpaper isn’t an easy task, cutting and sticking the wallpaper is exhausting, mentally and physically and therefore burns a few calories.
Electrical activities	236	Being an electrician often means not only carrying all the equipment necessary but stretching up to light switches and into small places to fix wires can be great exercise.
Gardening	337	Digging holes, mowing lawns and planting seeds are all great activities that make you burn quite a few calories.
Tiler	272	Carrying the tiles and equipment is physically exhausting, also the activity needed to secure the tiles is tiring and can burn a lot of calories.
Painter	386	As you can imagine, painting can burn a lot of calories due to the amount of body movement needed.
Carpentry	438	Most carpentry jobs should be left to professionals, however, some jobs can be done at home with little or no training involved.
Machine Driver	430	You might think that just sitting on a machine but there’s a lot of arm and leg movements needed to drive these machines.
Roofer	430	Climbing up to the roofs is hard work let alone putting down and securing the tiles to the roof,
Operating heavy power tools	451	Of course, heavy power tools are difficult to use and therefore a lot of energy and physical power is needed, thus burning quite a lot of calories.

Can I Lose Weight by Doing Construction Work?

As we mentioned above, construction jobs are extremely strenuous and can be a great workout for your body, therefore, it’s certain that by doing a construction role you can lose weight. However, losing weight isn’t just dependent on your physical exercise, it’s combined with your diet too!

So don’t expect to suddenly shed pounds just because you’ve become a builder, you need to adjust your eating habits to lose weight healthily and successfully. 

Can I Lose Weight by Hammering Every Day? 

If you were to get a job in the construction industry, especially in carpentry or as a builder it’s almost guaranteed that you will be hammering every single day.

Whatever the role is, hammering is guaranteed and as I’m sure you’ve gathered from the rest of this article, it can certainly benefit your health.

Nevertheless, just hammering won’t necessarily help you lose weight from all over your body, especially if you’re only able to hammer with one arm!

Unfortunately, hammering will only strengthen the muscles in that arm and across your back, your lower body and legs won’t be getting a workout and therefore, it’s unlikely you will lose weight in those areas.