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?

  • Maharashtra@lemmy.world
    51·
    1 year ago

    I find this train of thoughts void of a very important variable: there’s no single type of homework and while some might be definitely positive for health, both mental and physical, others are the opposite of that.

    For example, gardening vs painting walls with a toxic fungicidal paint. Housework? Housework!