Three More House Work Ideas That Help You Burn Fat

By Al M. Kind

The a previous article House Work Ideas That Help You Burn fat we discussed how washing the dishes and scrubbing the bathroom can be treated as exercises that can actually help you burn fat.

This article will discuss a few more house work ideas that will aid in your fat loss goals. Read on below to find out more.

Washing the Car

Washing the car alone each morning alone can make you lose 10 pounds in a year. Like washing dishes you wash the car swiftly. Never get interrupted and move around you car mitts quick and fast. A popular technique is to wash, soap, and rinse one panel at a time. This can be very demanding if you work yourself up quickly.

Treat it like you treat your high intensity interval cardio. You should not take more than 20 minutes washing the car. Doing it by panels makes you concentrate at one point at time. Do not stop and pause before each panel completes the preferred cycle of cleaning.

If it has been more than 20 minutes and you have not finished the whole car then leave the rest for the next day. This is a very intense exercise when done properly. Remember to shut out the world while doing each body panel.

Cleaning the Ceiling

Reaching the ceiling with dusters, brooms and other lengthy cleaning gadgets can be like yoga. It is not meant to be intense. Try reaching out and breathing deeply. This will increase your flexibility and enhance your diaphragm.

It really works well as the stretch on high enough ceilings can stretch muscles that are not usually used. Using a ladder can be helpful as you increase your agility while balancing. Believe it or not this is a very good exercise to strengthen the abdominal walls.

You will experience at tighter mid section and more fluid body with all the stretching you will be doing when reaching up to the ceilings. As a bonus you may even temporarily increase your height by half an inch provided that enough stretching of your spine happens.

Tending to the Lawn

This was probably the most popular outdoor home activity that could be called exercise. Unfortunately, no one really does this anymore. Lawn mower brochures have been replaced with IPOD magazines or digital single reflex camera catalogs.

If you have a lawn you should stop paying kids to mow them and do it yourself. It is better if you do it manually rather than use a powered mower. Go find an old school push reel lawn mower and start exercising! This can be an intense form of cardio which can equal running.

Doing this consistently and with a sense of urgency will make your heart rate go up. And doing it for an extended period of time will make it like steady state cardio, at 60% to 70% of your maximum heart rate.

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