When you garden, you improves your yard's appeal and burns calories too. Pruning a shrub requires you to stretch and flex your muscles. You cut branches using a lopper or pruner for extended periods and maintain your balance, all activities that require energy.
Strength
Pruning a small delicate shrub such as an azalea takes concentration and technique, but taming a larger plant takes some muscle power. General gardening, such as pruning shrubs helps build muscle strength and keeps your metabolism levels up.
Calories Burned
You burn 281 calories per hour pruning shrubs or doing general gardening, if you weight 155 lbs. Weighing more means more energy expended doing garden work, so you burn 327 calories per hour pruning shrubs or gardening if you weigh 180 lbs.
Benefits
Gardening is a good exercise because you can spend many hours working at a moderate pace. It provides a mental health benefit as well, taking you away from every day stresses. Gardens change and grow through the seasons, always giving you something to improve and enjoy.
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