Would your housework qualify as exercise?
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Anonymous
| Heavy gardening/landscaping days, yes. As in when I'm pulling vines and lugging bags of mulch and soil around by hand and using a saw to cut trees and clear brush. But I'm out there for hours |
Anonymous
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Roughly the equivalent of walking at 3.5mph, METS 3.0-3.5. Check the table under reference values.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_equivalent_of_task |
Anonymous
Nope. Not even close to that. Brisk walking for 20-30 minutes 1 mile minimum is considered exercise. |
Anonymous
| I'll have to ask the cleaning people. |
Anonymous
| Micro movements also have health benefits. |
Anonymous
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If I did it correctly it would. If you are mopping floors, scrubbing baths and showers, cleaning the curtains and blinds, wiping down all walls and surfaces, regularly degreasing surfaces in the kitchen, cleaning light fixtures, and cleaning under and around all furniture, on top of the sort of cleaning everyone does (dishes, laundry, vacuuming) it would absolutely constitute daily exercise. Getting your house truly clean requires more than a little elbow grease.
But I'm lazy so I don't. I do hire someone to come in and deep clean once in a while to make up for it. |
Anonymous
| No. We have a housekeeper and I personally prefer Barre and Pilates. |
Anonymous
How dirty is your house? Vacuuming takes me less than 5 minutes. |
Anonymous
About 20 minutes every week. Vacuum rugs, move rugs, vacuum again. Damp mop. |
Anonymous
| No but it is exercise. I put my peloton on. |
Anonymous
| Physical activity is not always equivalent to exercise m, but sometimes it is- use a METS calculator. |
Anonymous
| How would housework be exercise? How dirty is your house? Yuck. |
Anonymous
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My rest day is cleaning the house and light yardwork.
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Anonymous
| LOL. I don't do nearly enough cleaning to count as exercise (i hate housework). But when I do, I do go all out and I'd say it would count. But thats like, pretty darn rare. If I only worked out once a month I don't think I'd be very fit! |
Anonymous
Wow how tiny is your home? Vacuuming just my main floor takes ~10-15m, plus if you move furniture it takes longer. Then add stairs, upstairs, bedrooms, etc. Maybe you don't do it very thoroughly? |