There are many ways that you can increase the amount of calories that you burn on a daily basis. After all, burning calories is the only way to increase the weight which is lost – and it doesn’t have to be boring or consist of traditional exercise. Burning calories can be as easy as completing activities around the house or simply using activities with your children to burn calories.
Did you know that you could burn up to fifty thousand calories per year just by doing chores around the house? This is up to one thousand calories per week! Household chores include folding laundry, washing walls, cleaning the bathroom and tidying items around the house. There are many times that we don’t feel like partaking in household activities but now – we have motivation and inspiration to burn calories while cleaning up the household!
For instance, there are ways that we can up the amount of calories that have been burned though vigorous spring cleaning, washing walls and multitasking while cleaning various parts of the house. If you spend up to two hours per day cleaning – even less vigorous cleaning than you could be putting in as much of workout as going to the gym!
Here are some of the most common household chores and how many calories will be burned in an hour of completing these simple household tasks:
Walking through the home tidying various spaces 237
Gardening and Weeding 287
Walking up and Down Stair 537
Ironing and Folding 123
Mopping Floors 193
Dusting items in the home 174
See, there are many ways to incorporate calorie burning into the day – without exercise. How can you up the amount of calories that are being burned throughout the normal daily chores?
• Alternate cleaning on each level of the home so you are encouraged to go up and down the stairs and move from room to room. When you move from room to room while going up and down the stairs you are giving yourself the opportunity to burn more calories.
• Stop leaving a pile at the bottom of the stairs and making one trip. The alternative of taking one load at a time up the stairs and placing the item where it belongs can burn more calories and allow you to get a better workout while building muscle tone on the stairs.
• Bend and stretch during your workouts to encourage the floor to counter level bending. Rather than placing everything on one table it is important to enable the items to be reached for. Remember – every single calorie counts when you are trying to burn calories by working out in the household.
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