No time or don't feel like exercising? We all suffer from that from time to time. But did you know that maintaining the household also burns calories?
Take a walk to the supermarket instead of by car. Take some extra groceries with you so that you have to put your arms to work on the way back. Both your arms and your legs benefit from running errands. The calories you burn are about 275.
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Before cleaning your bathroom, you have to scrub a lot if you want to get all the lime off the tiles. You also have to bend your knees quite a bit, so that you take the glutes and leg muscles with you. If you then also take the floor with you by vacuuming and mopping. You burn about 400 calories per hour with a round of bathroom cleaning.
With music in the background, dancing around the room, mopping becomes less annoying. A walk around the house can burn around 315 calories per hour.
Cleaning windows is an ultimate job for your arms. Train those upper arms with an hour of laps and put just a little more power than usual. That's how you say goodbye to about 300 calories.
This job is of course the most pleasant in the summer. If after the winter a lot of weeds have grown again. In the spring, go through your legs while weeding. With this you burn no less than 350 calories per hour.
Sources:margriet.nl, Damesspreijes.nl
