Household Chores That Aid in Weight Loss

Household chores can actually help you lose weight. It isn’t that cleaning your house will turn you into a super slim model, but that cleaning your house and cleaning it well you will burn calories. Some chores help you burn more calories then others, but everything you do will help.

How It Works.
Any time you move you increase the number of calories that your body needs. The more you move, the more you burn, the more likely you are to lose weight. Losing weight always requires you to burn more calories then you are taking in, but if you take in a normal diet and move more you will be moving in the right direction.

Get Moving.
In order to start losing weight or to continue losing weight your really need to get moving. The more you move the better off you will be.

Indoor Chores That Burn Calories.
Each chore that you do will burn a number of calories based on the type of movements, how much is done, and also how hard the work is.
Vacuuming burns about 375 calories for every ½ hour. A ½ an hour might seem like a very long time to vacuum, but you can do a great job and vacuum the entire house to burn as much as jogging or running slowly.
Cleaning windows is a much hated job will have you burning 200 calories for every ½ hour.
Mopping by hand and using a mop will burn about 150 calories for every 30 minutes.
Making beds, cooking, dusting, and laundry all burn about 75 minutes for every 30 minutes.
Shopping will burn about 75 to 150 calories for every 30 minutes.

Outdoor Chores That Burn Calories.
Outdoor chores often burn a lot more calories then indoor chores. They aren’t done as regularly and some are done very rarely. However, they do burn a lot of calories.
Shoveling and raking burn about 150 to 200 calories for every 30 minutes.
Washing and waxing the car burns about 150 calories for every ½ hour.
Mowing, as long as you use a push mower, burns at least 135 calories. However, if you do it harder, faster, or with a more complected yard then you can burn as much as 275 calories for every 30 minutes.
Gardening can burn anywhere from 150 calories to 300 calories for every 30 minutes.

Ways To Take Advantage of This.
We all have a hard time finding enough time to get everything done in a week. Now you have a great reason to thoroughly clean your house as one of your workouts. Do a thorough job vacuuming, mopping, and other cleaning chores. If you spend 90 minutes doing a good job cleaning you will burn about 500 to 700 calories depending on your pace as well as what activities you do.

Cleaning is something that we all have to do. However, if you clean with purpose, think about how you are burning calories, and get the job done really well then you will burn calories.’

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