Getting Fit Around the House
Getting fit around your own house is not always easy, but it’s certainly simpler than you may have thought. There is a huge variety of tasks that you can undertake to keep your beach body goals on track. Most of us think “I don’t have time to get to the gym with all of this stuff around the house I need to take care of!” You don’t need a fancy home gym, or a membership at a club. If you have chores, you have a fitness program!
One of the first things we ask our new employees during their orientation is “Do you have a gym membership?” If they answer “yes” we say “You can cancel that”. Getting fit is just one of the perks when working with Harbourview’s maintenance division. Our crews cut hundreds of lawns each week. Did you know that mowing the lawn can easily burn anywhere from 250 to 350 calories per hour? When our crew puts in an 8 hour day (which is a nice light day for them) they are burning upwards of 2500 calories!
Simple gardening is a great way to spruce up your curb appeal while getting fit. Pulling weeds, planting flowers, easy digging, etc. will burn on average 200 calories per hour. That’s equivalent to 1 hour of competitive Curling. And if you’re doing heavy landscape work such as digging and moving rocks, that calorie count can sky rocket to over 600.
Now if you’re getting fit doing cardio activities, that’s one thing. If you’re doing heavy lifting to get in shape, that’s another. But my favourite is a combination of the two. You simply can’t beat shovelling snow or chopping wood. Either of these activities will chew up 600 plus calories per hour, while at the same time building muscle and core strength. An hour of Ice Hockey doesn’t even come close in comparison. It’s a great way to stay trim and strong at the same time.
So if you’ve got chores you’re getting fit! And if you’d rather take a day or two off and get busy barbecuing, our crews are fit and ready to work. Give Harbourview a call to take care of it for you. You’re busy. Let us do the work!