Introducing the Ultimate Fitness Regime to Save You Time
January 6, 2017 | Look Good & Feel Good | No comments
Right. Forget crunches, press-ups, and jogging. Yes, you want to improve your fitness. Yes, you overindulged on pigs in blankets and mince pies over Christmas and now you’re feeling the guilt. But keep the money for an expensive gym membership firmly in your pocket where it belongs. There is an easier way.
Let us present the ultimate in multitasking. Burning calories and getting fit by doing simple chores around the home! Work up a sweat scrubbing out your oven, tone your arms vacuuming thick carpets and replace squats with bending down to load and unload the washing machine. Added bonus – adopt this fitness strategy and your home will be spotless literally all the time.
What are you waiting for?
Clean Eating (And by that we mean eating from clean dishes)
And bend and stretch and load that dishwasher.
Time: 15 minutes
Calories burned: 45
Scrubbing the burnt cheese sauce off the lasagne dish you forgot to soak.
Time: 10 minutes
Calories burned: 17
Sweeping up the smashed plate that just slipped out of your fingers (boohoo).
Time: 5 minutes
Calories burned: 13
Suck Up Dirt (And suck in your waistline)
Untangling vacuum cable and cursing your lazy past self for not winding it up neatly.
Time: 5 minutes
Calories burned: 6
Pushing vacuum cleaner over thick, unwieldy carpet that’s hard to clean, but feels amazing underfoot (totally worth it).
Time: 20 minutes
Calories burned: 57
Taking the vacuum cleaner apart to find and remove the sock that you accidentally sucked up.
Time: 10 minutes
Calories burned: 12
Burn Calories (But not your dinner)
Carrying in groceries in from the car and regretting buying so many tins and heavy veggies.
Time: 15 minutes
Calories burned: 25
Preparing a wonderful gastronomic feast with lots of chopping, tenderising, sautéing and blanching (and feeling pretty smart for knowing what blanching means).
Time: 60 minutes
Calories burned: 102
Pacing about and opening the oven door 10 times to see if it’s done yet. (And getting blasted in the face with steam. Every. Single. Time.)
Time: 10 minutes
Calories burned: 28
Sculpt Your Garden (And your physique)
Working up a sweat mowing your lawn.
Time: 45 minutes
Calories burned: 230
Lopping off branches with a chainsaw and rocking the lumberjack/serial killer vibe.
Time: 30 minutes
Calories burned: 170
Planting all the little seedlings you’ve been nurturing and praying you don’t forget to water them.
Time: 60 minutes
Calories burned: 238
DIY Your Home (And your muscle tone)
Revamping your walls with a fresh coat of “Classic Duck Egg” blue.
Time: 120 minutes
Calories burned: 272
Repairing your blown oven element (using our enlightening YouTube video of course).
Time: 30 minutes
Calories burned: 119
Changing a light bulb, proving it only takes one person to do it.
Time: 4 minutes
Calories burned: 4
Walking around your house making sure everyone comes to admire the bulb you’ve just changed.
Time: 15 minutes
Calories burned: 34
Do Laundry Loads (And burn loads of fat)
Lifting bundles of laundry into the machine.
Time: 5 minutes
Calories burned: 7
Pacing waiting for the door lock to release once your washing’s done.
Time: 10 minutes
Calories burned: 9
Hanging out clothes.
Time: 20 minutes
Calories burned: 23
Doing the ironing (which is hardly even a chore considering you can watch your favourite TV at the same time).
Time: 30 minutes
Calories burned: 44
Fitness Regime Complete!
Once you’ve completed all these chores that’s a whopping 1455 calories of energy you’ve used. Not too shabby for a fitness regime, considering 300 calories is equivalent to a 30 min jog!
So if you’re the type who loves pulling weights at the gym, pull your weight with the household chores too and you get an awesome looking home and delighted housemates in the bargain. What’s not to love?
All calorie counts based on stats taken from calorielab.com.
