If you wash your dishes by hand, you'll tack on an additional calories worth of exercise for every hour you spend over the sink. Of course unless you're doing the washing up at a commercial kitchen you'll be pretty unlikely to spend an hour washing up, with most people spending just 15 minutes cleaning away the plates from dinner, in which case you'll burn 26 calories.
Nobody really wants to run outside to take the rubbish out. However taking the rubbish out, especially if you hose or wipe the bins down, burns a surprising amount of calories — almost the same as popping on the joggers and going for a long walk. With all the positional changes you make during ironing it burns up a surprising amount of calories — 88 an hour in fact.
To boost this number even more, try putting the freshly ironed-item on a coathanger and putting it away each time you finish — it's annoying and repetitive, but you'll rack up thousands of steps without even realising.
It's the chore that everybody hates doing each morning, but making the bed is the perfect way to kick-start your metabolism and warm up your body.
To get the most out of making the bed, try timing yourself to see how quickly you can get it done — the constant rushing will double the calories you burn in half the time.
Whether you're on your hands and knees scrubbing the bath or working the mould out of the tile grout, cleaning the bathroom is no easy task. On average you'll burn more calories cleaning the bathroom than going on a bushwalk, especially if you hit all those hard-to-reach places like behind the toilet. If you've got a little one around the house or hate putting things away then you'll constantly find odds and ends lying strewn all throughout the place.
Just the simple act of picking these up and putting them in the right place burns the same calories as going for a power walk! Do you keep putting off that flickering light in the kitchen? Well the simple act of grabbing a chair and changing the bulb can burn up to 50 calories — more if you need to get the ladder out, and even more if you decide to clean the lamp shade while you're up there.
The simple act of whipping up a meal burns more calories than you realise. When combined with washing up, cooking a meal and cleaning up can burn a few hundred calories — that's almost a whole Mars Bars' worth. We're not kidding when we say that carrying groceries into your home is fully-fledged workout — especially if you're one of those types who believes everything must be done in one trip. Depending on what you buy, carrying groceries up the front steps can burn an incredible calories in just 15 minutes.
To supercharge your workout, try catching the bus to the supermarket and walking home from the bus-stop — it's annoying, but it will tick off your daily workout in one go.
Being an active parent is really hard — until you realise how much incidental exercise you're getting from looking after the kids alone. Simply the act of showering, dressing and feeding the kids burns calories an hour — and that's before you've dressed yourself.
Upping your water intake may increase lipolysis, the process by which the body burns fat for energy, according to a mini-review of animal studies published in Frontiers in Nutrition. Lemon water can promote fullness, support hydration, boost metabolism and increase weight loss.
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How many calories does 4 hours of cleaning burn? How do I calculate how many calories I burn a day? How many calories should I eat a day to lose 2 pounds a week? Can I lose weight eating 2 calories a day? We could go to the gym and get a good workout, for one.
But sweeping the floors, scrubbing the tub and washing the dishes can be a workout in itself and give you a clean house at the same time. Factors like our age, weight and fitness level affect the final tally but have you ever wondered how many calories do we burn doing household chores?
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Ironing: calories per hour Once the laundry is done and dry, you can burn another calories per hour by ironing it. To make things a little more interesting, place the ironing board in front of the TV and watch the healthiest celebrities of for inspiration as you iron. Doing laundry: calories per hour Washing and folding laundry can help you burn calories per hour. If you want to burn even more, wash it by hand, carry the wet laundry outside and hang it out to dry in the sun.
It will save you a lot on your power bill too. Sweeping: calories per hour Sweeping the floor burns about calories per hour. You can burn more if you put on some music, dance while sweeping and sweep more vigorously. Letting a toddler stand on top of the mop while you drag it across the floor will push the mop down harder, exerting extra pressure for a more thorough clean. It will help you build extra muscle in your arms too.
Vacuuming: calories an hour On average, you can burn calories an hour vacuuming the carpets. Dusting not only makes your home a healthier place to be in but it has the added bonus of burning calories per hour. Scrubbing floors: calories per hour Scrubbing the floors is a real calorie-burner. In fact, you can burn calories per hour doing this, depending on how vigorously you scrub. At the same time, your floors get a deep clean.
Making the bed: 70 calories per hour There are expert hacks to help you get the best sleep ever , but it all starts with a freshly made bed. Making the bed can also burn 70 calories an hour.
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