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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?
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Everything burns calories, even breathing. That doesn’t make it exercise. The only things on that list that could count are shoveling snow, moving furniture, and gardening, depending on what you are doing.
These kind of articles are dangerous and misleading. There is no amount of house work that is going to give you a healthy heart.
I have a dog and vacuum almost daily, it’s not exercise compared to taking him on a 2 mile walk that takes the same amount of time.
Doing housework is more cardio than not doing it, so there’s that
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!
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The amount of calories I have burnt in the last year doing housework is surely less than the calories I burnt on a single 10 mile trek on my peloton tread. Clearly others are doing a lot more than I am if it rises to the level of exercise.
They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for content here. Who the fuck doesn’t know that moving is exercise?
a lot of people don’t consider housework to be exercise for some reason
