Weight loss: How daily household chores can help you get in shape!

Just getting rid of a couple of inches off the waist or drastically cutting down on your body weight, we are all willing to go to great lengths to get that ideal shape we desire!

While you constantly try to zero down on that perfect diet or workout which is tailor-made for you, a few simple additions and subtractions here and there can help you reach your goals faster and see a difference in your waistline! One of the important ones being simply increasing your physical activity!

If you thought to be physically active meant just spending hours outside the home, think again. In some smart ways, you can make your everyday chores into fat-busting activities! Yes, just doing simple household chores or tasks can double up as calorie busting moves and in this way, help you lose weight.

Remember how your elders always said that helping around the house helped them stay healthy and fit? Well, they might be right! While these may not just help you drop down the stubborn kilos in a day, there is no denying that these activities can help you stay active and lose weight faster! Studies say that when it comes to calorie burning, the most effective activities can be the ones that work the same way as a regular gym workout.

For optimum weight loss, you must burn more calories than you can consume. Hence, you must get rid of the extra stored up fat and the calories by constantly staying busy. According to a report, engaging in 11-12 hours of household activities, done at a moderate pace can effectively work in making you drop a dress size and burn upt0 to 2300 calories a week, which implies that you stand to lose up to one kilogram every month! Coupled with workout and eating the right kind of food, it can easily act as a tool to fasten your weight loss journey.

Experts suggest that engaging in strenuous household chores (such as mopping the floor, cleaning the house, moving furniture around or even doing the laundry) is equivalent to 15 minutes of running, 20 minutes spent in a spinning class or circuit training. Parents, even childcare can help shed the kilos!

This being said, here is our pick of the most engaging household chores which can help you ditch the flab faster:

Think about it this way. Mopping, as an activity requires you to bend down a lot, reach out to those tough nooks and crannies and move around a lot to clean. Bending about to pick things, or tidying up the house, in general, can be one of those activities which can help you get in shape a little easier. The activity can burn up to 230 calories, which is just the number you gain from snacking on french fries.

Just as effective are household chores like gardening and vacuuming.

The next time you are asked to help around move big furniture or help a friend move house, we suggest you happily volunteer. Moving furniture is no doubt, a heavyweight job that requires a lot of bending down, lifting. Consider this as an easy weight training exercise without the use of actually workout tools! It may even surprise you that this activity can help burn up to 100-200 calories in a mere 20 minutes. How is that for a quick on-the-move workout.

So, the next time you shy away from doing household chores, how about you sweat it out?