Table of contents:
- Wash the dishes
- Sweep up
- Vacuum
- Mop the floor
- Laundry
- Wipe the window
- Car wash
- Scrub the bathroom
- Gardening
- Home decoration
If you don't have time to go to the gym, now there are other ways you can still burn the stored calories in the body.
Housework is a great way to help you burn extra calories. But, just like going to the gym, the more effort you put into it, the greater the benefits you get. For example, mopping and sweeping are great exercises for shaping the arms. Making the bed, drying clothes, and cleaning windows are great stretching exercises to increase flexibility and tone your thigh muscles. Not to mention that walking around, including going up and down stairs, is a good aerobic exercise.
Meanwhile, more energetic household chores such as decorating the house and cleaning the warehouse can burn more calories. Don't forget about the garden - weeding, digging, mowing the grass, pruning the bushes are great exercises to build muscle and burn extra calories.
Cleaning your house may not be the most ideal way to burn calories quickly, but consider another benefit: drying your sheets and sweeping helps you to protect yourself from dust allergies, it also repels other disease-causing bacteria.
Come on, start cleaning the house!
Wash the dishes
Scrubbing and washing dirty dishes can burn about 160 calories per 30 minutes. Putting clean plates and glasses back in their place can burn 105 calories, if you go back and forth.
Sweep up
Sweeping is boring, but 30 minutes of doing this can burn 136 calories.
Vacuum
Depending on how much space you clean, every 60 minutes of vacuuming, you will burn at least 200 calories.
Mop the floor
Mopping the floor for 60 minutes burns 400 calories. Now, imagine how many calories you could lose if your house were two stories high …
Laundry
Starting from washing (using the washing machine), drying, folding, then putting it back in the wardrobe can consume at least 280 calories. If you add iron, that means there are 140 additional calories you can burn every hour you do it.
Wipe the window
Wipe windows, as well as other household furniture that you can clean (eg vases, frames, table decorations), can burn 167 calories per 30 minutes.
Car wash
Try washing your own car at home instead of spending money on going to the repair shop. Manual car wash can burn 153 calories.
Scrub the bathroom
Cleaning the bathroom can burn 180 calories per 60 minutes.
Gardening
Weeding, digging, cutting grass, trimming the bushes can consume 325 calories per hour.
Planting trees and flowers besides beautifying your patio, also helps you burn 250 calories per hour.
Home decoration
Rearranging a bedroom or TV room can burn 167 calories per 30 minutes. Moving home furniture can lose 100 calories in just 15 minutes, even more if you move it back and forth from top to bottom.
(Note: all calorie counts are only a guideline based on the 68 kg benchmark for a normal female body weight. Results may vary depending on your intensity, posture and body weight)
