If during quarantine you hold the house in order, and do not spread empty packages from the chips around the room, probably your figure remained in the same form as self-insulation. Ask why we decided so? The study of the British magazine Good Housekeeping calculated how many calories you spend when working around the house. We give their data translated into Russian with useful comments on how to increase energy consumption. Calculated calories suggest a 30-minute execution of a certain type of cleaning for a 40-year-old woman with a growing 174 cm and weighing 64 kg. If you weigh more, then calories spend more.
Dust rubbing - 109 calories
While you wake and squeeze the rag, reach your hands to the upper shelves and lean to rub the plinth, the press works at the limit of activity due to the change of stretching and reducing the abdominal muscle. Simultaneously train hands - biceps and triceps, shoulder belt and wide back muscle. Do not be lazy and clean in an intense tempo, at the same time, arrange a workout for the heart and lungs - such an occupation can be compared with Cardio with a slow run or fast walking.
carry out wet cleaning need a couple of times a week
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Cleaning vacuum cleaner - 96 calories
During the control of the vacuum cleaner, you train in the same way as during classes in the crossover - promote your arms forward, and then closame the blades, reducing your back muscles. At the same time, when cleaning with a vacuum cleaner, a press runs during slopes to purify the floor under beds, sofas and other furniture. Do not be lazy to change the nozzles and pay attention to everything - from the plinths to the web on the ceiling. Turn on the incendiary music to remove it is more fun.
Wet floor cleaning - 90 calories
If you have steam vessels, in a couple of minutes of wet cleaning, you practically do not spend calories. The other thing is when you take a rag in the old way, wet it with water, squeeze to the barely wet state, fall on your knees and start to wash the floor with wave-like movements. During this "exercise" runs the shoulder belt, the widest muscles of the back, the muscles of the neck and chest are strengthened. To laugh at themselves, include the songs of old pop groups, in which the performer is crawling on the floor in so music - you feel the star!
Bathroom washing - 79 calories
The authors of the study noted that the bathroom cleaning can replace 20 minutes of ballroom dancing, just imagine! Arm yourself with rubber gloves, sponge, white and start your "dirty dancing." While you are standing the boots up, rubbing the bottom of the bath, the muscles of the back surface of the hip are stretching - an excellent alternative to the boring for many stretching. At the same time, wipe the sink, the mirror, the shelves in the lockers, remove the surface of the washing machine and replace the towels - the bathroom will be bullied with cleanliness and freshness.
Be sure to take the bathroom after cleaning as a sign of gratitude to yourself
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Cleaning windows - 79 calories
Wash up a shine of the window or stretch on the rowing simulator 10 minutes - what is common? At a minimum, the same calorie consumption. With clean windows, you will be more pleasant to watch what is happening on the street while you are locked in your "Castle". Start with the cleaning of the window sill, then wet the glass and rinse them from the inside, open the windows and clean them outside. Lifehakk: Rinse the windows on a cloudy day, as their surface will be breathing instantly, and you will not have time to polish it until the stains disappear. Be careful and do not get up on the windowsill - buy a scraper for cleaning and secure yourself from falling.