Housework Counts As Exercise! • iFIT Blog
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Picture this: you’ve finished a long day of housework, cleaning up after the kids, and pulling weeds in the backyard…and you’re exhausted. Right when you have some free time to go to the gym, your energy’s all but gone. Sound familiar? Not to worry! It turns out that house and yard work may serve as […]

Honestly I’ve seen some attitudes and articles that “housework isn’t exercise” and… I’m guessing such people don’t do much housework? At a minimum, it could often be a lot of walking, which is fine low to moderate exercise.

Have you ever found housework (or chores) to be good exercise?

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 year ago

    Cleaning large areas or intensive scrubbing is definitely tiring. Vacuum or mop the whole house, or scrub the tub to remove soap scum - it will raise the heart rate and can make the arms tired.

    Light duty stuff like dishes, not so much.

    • Carighan Maconar
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah that’s kinda what I meant, I should have been more explicit. If you have a house, even just the daily cleaning and sorting, taken together, is quite a bit. A proper cleaning you do once a week or so if you do it in one session gets you pretty exhausted. And people rarely recognize it as such, plus of course we rarely do it in one session.

      I only started noticing after my ex moved out and I established Saturday morning as the time I do all the weekly cleaning up, all in one go.