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?

    • Bilbo BagginsEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      The amount of calories I have burnt in the last year doing housework is surely less than the calories I burnt on a single 10 mile trek on my peloton tread. Clearly others are doing a lot more than I am if it rises to the level of exercise.