If you feel as though you don't have time for regular workout sessions in the gym, you can still get exercise through your day-to-day activities. Physically demanding jobs along with household chores not only work the muscles but increase the amount of calories you burn. Make sure you drink plenty of water and rest as needed during intense forms of physical labor.
Forestry Jobs
If you work in the forestry industry, large amounts of calories are burned during chopping activities, log lifting, sawing and trimming trees. The most calories burned will be while chopping with an ax at a fast pace. If you weigh 180 lbs., you'll burn an astounding 1,389 calories per hour. Carrying logs for an hour burns about 899 calories while sawing by hand burns 572 and trimming trees helps you lose 725 calories.
Farming
Farming is another form of physical labor that can work the muscles in all areas of the body while increasing your calorie burn. Typical farming activities include baling hay, feeding and grooming animals and herding. Baling hay will burn the most calories out of all farm activities with an average rate of 654 calories burned in an hour if you weigh 180 lbs.
Outdoor Chores
You don't need a physically demanding job to burn calories and get in shape. Simple outdoor chores can help give you a full body workout. For instance, gardening works the muscles in the arms, back, legs and core. Digging and planting helps you burn about 630 calories in an hour. Mowing the lawn is another type of outdoor chore and helps you burn about 320 calories if you use a push mower.
Indoor Chores
Indoor chores can also be helpful at incorporating exercise into your day. Scrubbing the floors and washing the windows will be your best bet for burning calories and working the arms, shoulders and back muscles. If you spend 30 minutes washing the windows in your home, you'll lose about 125 calories while scrubbing the tub and floors help you burn 200 calories in half an hour.
