Scrub away those extra pounds! Study shows that cleaning the kitchen burns more calories than dancing

Scrubbing the kitchen can be one of those chores you might want to put off.

But it’s not just the dirty oven that benefits from being cleaned.

Flashing in the kitchen for 50 minutes burns more calories than ballroom dancing or a bike ride of the same duration.

And it burns more than cleaning any other room, a study found.

Cleaning a kitchen burns an average of 276 calories, a bathroom just 173 and a bedroom just 154.

Flashing in the kitchen for 50 minutes burns more calories than ballroom dancing or a bike ride of the same duration (file image)

Ten professional cleaners received Fitbits and assigned them five homes each.

The data collected suggests that cleaning the kitchen for an average of 50 minutes burns more calories than an hour of ballroom dancing (219) or an hour’s bike ride (292).

Responding to the findings from US-based cleaning service Homeaglow, Professor Amanda Daley, professor of behavioral medicine at Loughborough University, said housework “can get your heart pumping”.

But it doesn’t really help with weight loss, since it often only uses relatively few muscles.

So Joe Mitton, a Cambridgeshire personal trainer, suggested: “Instead of bending over to clean something, squat down and hold the squat.”

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