Home Maintenance Can Be Great Exercise (Infographic)

Did you know that maintaining your home and landscape can be effective exercise?! As this infographic shows, there are many home maintenance routines that can help you burn the calories. All while you improve your home! 

What home maintenance repairs burn the most calories? 

Here are the numbers! Shoveling snow burns 546 calories an hour. Cutting the grass with a push mower burns 400 calories an hour. Raking leaves burns 384 calories an hour. Carpentry, or fence building burns 340 calories an hour. Roofing burns 340 calories an hour. Cleaning the gutters burns 272 calories an hour. Spreading dirt with a shovel burns 272 calories an hour. Exterior painting burns 272 calories an hour. Hanging new windows burns 272 calories an hour. Sanding the floors burns 238 calories an hour. Repairing appliances burns about 238 calories an hour. Laying or removing carpet burns 238 calories an hour. Painting a fence burns about 238 calories an hour Laying tile burns about 238 calories an hour Wiring and plumbing burn about 136 calories an hour. 

Which home activities burn the most calories? 

As you can see from the infographic, the single best way to burn calories around the home is shoveling snow which can burn a whopping 546 calories an hour! Granted you can only burn calories shoveling snow in the winter. So in at number 2 is push mowing the lawn which can burn 400 calories an hour. So if you mow the lawn with a riding mower, and you want a fast way to burn calories. Make the switch to a push mower.

What other home maintenance activities burn a lot of calories? 

Some of the best ways to burn calories around the home are raking leaves, carpentry, roofing or building a fence. Each of those activities burns about 272 calories an hour. Some other home activities that burn calories around the home are redoing the floors; either wood or tile, plumbing, or even painting your home; inside or out. There are many home maintenance activities which can burn calories around the home. 

As this infographic shows, home maintenance can be great exercise! Best of all, you are improving your life and home, while burning calories. What could be a better form of exercise?! 

Be sure to share this infographic with your friends and family to share how home maintenance and exercise can actually go hand in hand.

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