Anything you do burns calories. Most people do sports or go to the gym to burn extra calories and stay fit. Yet, there are easier ways to keep fit: by mindfully doing household chores.

Considering that one can easily get out of breath doing housework, we better consider household work to be some sort of fitness regime. When you take your pulse while doing housework, your heart easily beats 100 times per minute. That’s like exercising.

Household chores are an easy way to keep fit. (Shutterstock)

Gardening, too!

This can make life easier in many ways: knowing that you’re actually exercising when laboring at home. Not only does such “ordinary work” take on meaning. We also don’t have to spend extra time going for a run, traveling to the gym or attending health sessions.

Doesn’t mean that housework is a jack of all trades exercise. Just means there are so many ways to find purpose in each and every moment of the day – even if we think some chores are of lesser value or a nuisance.