Besides being tidy, cleaning your house once in awhile is good for your health!
ABC News: Health Tip: Housework Will Keep You Fit
January 21, 2005
(HealthDayNews) – If you’re stuck with housework when you’d really rather be at the gym, you’ll be happy to learn that you’re getting the same workout either way.
According to an article a few years back in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, vacuuming and cleaning the bathroom both increase the heart rate and produce as much circulatory strain as a period of moderate aerobic exercise at the gym.
And while the amount of strain varies from person to person, vacuuming generally causes more strain than bathroom cleaning does.
Yet another excuse removed; for the people who don’t have time to exercise? Maybe you should pick up a vaccum and get going!