Effectively Burns Calories, These 10 Activities Are Equivalent To Sports

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JAKARTA - Regular exercise is a healthy way of life. If you don't have time to do activities that burn calories such as exercise, then you can replace it by doing some daily activities at home.

The benefits are the same, which is to make the body sweat and of course erode the accumulated fat little by little. Want to try it, check the list of activities below.

Sweeping floor

If you don't have time to exercise, sweeping the floor is like walking. Try to do this activity, besides keeping your house clean, you can sweat it out by sweeping the floor.

Mopping

There is still one type of homework by sweeping the floor, which is mopping the floor. Even though you use water in mopping, but in a mopping motion it is like stretching the body in gymnastics. You can tone your hand muscles and make them stretchier.

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Gardening

When you check the plants in the yard in the morning, you will be basking in the morning sun which contains vitamin D. Plus when you are doing activities, fertilizing, watering, and mowing, then you are doing the equivalent of exercising.

Gardening benefits not only physically, but also mentally because it can calm and relax the mind.

Shop

How many times have you circled the same shelf while shopping? Not only does it determine what item you want to look for, but shopping is also the equivalent of exercise. Because walking without realizing it has reached hundreds of meters. To make sure, you can count them using a step counter app.

Cook

Starting from preparing ingredients to cooking in a standing position can be the equivalent of a sport. According to studies, cooking at home is also healthier because you know for sure the composition of food that you process yourself. Besides that, cooking by yourself is also more hygienic.

Washing clothes

According to Medical Daily, washing clothes can burn 116 calories. Washing activities, from wetting clothes, brushing, rinsing twice to drying them can make the motoric muscles of the hands more active.

Tidy up the room

Organizing things in the room burns calories unexpectedly. Starting from cleaning furniture to repositioning several items requires a lot of energy.

Washing the vehicle

Both two-wheeled vehicles and four-wheeled vehicles, car washing can be draining. Switching positions from squatting and standing over and over again is not an easy thing, this activity is the equivalent of squats because it is done many times.

Illustration of washing vehicles (Pexels/Karolina Grobowska)

Clean the stairs

Every ladder there is always a handle hand. Well, cleaning that part is actually a sport. Cleaning every corner by hand can increase the motoric activity of the hands. Not to mention changing positions which can also burn calories.

Go up and down the stairs during repair

The simplest activity is to replace the home bulb. You need to go up the ladder, raise your hand towards the bulb holder, and replace it. Finally, descending from stairs requires balance and care.

Which activities you usually do at home to change your exercise or sweating out while doing it?