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Medical Video: How Many Calories Do You Burn for Doing Household Chores
If you don't have time to go to the gym, now there are other ways that you can still burn heaps of calories in the body.
Housework is a great way to help you burn extra calories. But, just like gym, the bigger and more organized business you put in, the greater the benefits you get. For example, mopping and sweeping are good exercises for forming arms. Tidy up the bed, wash clothes, and clean the window is a good stretching exercise to increase flexibility and tighten the thigh muscles. Not to mention walking around, including going up and down stairs, is a good aerobic movement.
Meanwhile, more energetic housework such as decorating a house and washing a warehouse can burn more calories. Don't forget about the park - weeding, digging, mowing the lawn, trimming the bushes are good exercises for building muscle and burning extra calories.
Home cleaning may not be the most ideal way to quickly burn calories, but consider other benefits: drying the sheets and sweeping helps you to protect yourself from dust allergies, also to expel other disease-causing bacteria.
Come on, start cleaning up the house!
Wash the dishes
Rubbing and washing dirty dishes can burn about 160 calories per 30 minutes. Putting clean plates and cups back into place can burn 105 calories, if you do it back and forth.
Sweep
Sweeping is boring, but 30 minutes of doing this can burn 136 calories.
Vacuum
Depending on the area of the room being cleaned, every 60 minutes vacuum, you will burn at least 200 calories.
Mop the floor
60 minutes of floor mopping burns 400 calories. Now, imagine how many calories you can destroy if your house is two stories high ...
Laundry
Starting from washing (with a washing machine), drying, folding, then putting it back into the wardrobe can spend at least 280 calories. If added with ironing, it means that there are 140 extra calories that you can burn every hour you do it.
Wipe the window
Wipe windows, as well as other home 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 to go to the garage. Washing a manual car can burn 153 calories.
Rub the bathroom
Cleaning the bathroom can burn 180 calories per 60 minutes.
Gardening
Weeding, digging, cutting grass, pruning bushes can spend 325 calories per hour.
Planting trees and flowers in addition to beautifying your home terrace, also helps you burn 250 calories per hour.
Home decoration
Rearranging the bedroom or TV room can burn 167 calories per 30 minutes. Moving home furniture can eliminate 100 calories in just 15 minutes, even more if you move it from top to bottom.
(Note: all calorie counts are only guidelines based on normal female body measurements with a body weight of 68 kg. Results can vary depending on your intensity, body posture and weight)
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