Homeowners burn more than 80,000 calories a year with home projects and gardening
During a typical year, house proud Brits will spend a total of 165 hours - the equivalent of almost a week - pottering around the garden and fixing up their dwellings.Brits will spend a total of 165 hours - the equivalent of almost a week - gardening and doing home DIYIn that time they will burn 6,384 calories while weeding, 3,466 calories when pruning and 3,852 calories while watering the garden.
Commissioned by Draper Tools, the study of 2,000 homeowners found 39 per cent don’t tend to think of gardening as a way of exercising, while 57 per cent feel the same about DIY. “The amount burnt during a typical year is the equivalent of 349 Mars bars or 312 Big Macs – that’s a lot of food. Even smaller tasks such as painting items of furniture or filling in holes using a filler will see them shed 394 and 760 calories respectively.
Painting outdoor walls and fencing will shed 3,661 calories and carrying stones, wood, bags of compost, bags of soil and other heavy items will also burn 3,029 a year. As such, seven in 10 find they tend to get so lost in the task when improving the home and doing a spot of gardening they find hours can simply ‘disappear.’
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