stupid magazine articles

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Cathlete
So I'm reading a magazine and it's one of those how to lose weight articles. You know the type. I love how it calculates how much calories are burned by mowing the lawn and vacuuming. Like as if that counts as actual cardio?! Maybe in a perfect world I could keep slim by vacuuming my house every day, but in the meantime I'll take my cathe dvd's!!

Kara
 
Maybe the real benefit is because people are less likely to eat while vacuuming, mowing or cleaning toilets :p

RE: chores and calories burned--you never see pictures of overweight Amish people! I read that they put pedometers on Amish men and women for a week and the men averaged 18,000 steps/day and the women 14,000/day. I'm tired just reading that. Time for a nap.

Jonahnah
From now on, I'm going to be more decisive. Possibly.
 
I would never stay fit just doing that stuff, because I like to eat too much. But I do think being everyday active can contribute to maintaining a healthy weight, especially things like yard work and gardening. I find in the summer I can really cut back on my cardio.

Sparrow

"The winds of grace are always blowing but it's you who must raise your sail." - Sri Ramakrishna
 
I am thinking they are trying to motivate the couch potatos to just get up and do some chores.

Maybe it won't be actual "exercise" which some people just feel they dont need?

Or, that if you combine your chores with exercise, just look how much you will burn.

Course then people may just eat more cuz they burned more?}(

Hmmmm . . .
 
I know just what you mean! But, I am one who counts pushing my lawn mower for almost two hours a workout, especially when it's 90 degrees and the humidity is 80% ;)!

Susan
 
I read one of those checkout stand magazine a while back and it had an article about women who wanted to build muslce but not bulk up. It said that loading and unloading the dishwasher with the light weight of the dishes would tone my triceps. And to think all this time I've been lugging around these big ol' weights when all I had to do was housework!!!! I bet that's Cathe's "secret ingredient" she spends 5 mins a day in the gym and 3 hours washing dishes and vaccuuming for abs of wonderment!

I hate housework. Give me the weights anyday!!

Nan
 
Hmmm...I don't really see how an article showing how many calories are burned by regular daily activities is all that 'stupid'--certainly not compared to some other dreck that's out there (though I do find one online list that includes such activities as "police officer--surveillance from car" or some such thing, and other equally strange activities, rather amusing! ;) ).

After all, the only reason many people "have to" exercise nowdays is because we are not as active in everyday life as in the past. When people walked or biked more to get places, and did more of their own physical labor, they naturally got their 'cardio' from real-life activities.

I also think that encouraging physical activity (and not just exercise) is a valid purpose for a magazine article. Not just for weight loss, but for overall health.

It also might encourage people to exercise, as they notice that they'd have to vaccuum for 3 hours straight (or whatever) to burn the same amount of calories as doing a 1/2-hour step workout.

(If you've ever briskly mowed a lawn using a non-motorized push mower, you might not scoff at its aerobic benefits.)
 
>I read one of those checkout stand magazine a while back and
>it had an article about women who wanted to build muslce but
>not bulk up. It said that loading and unloading the
>dishwasher with the light weight of the dishes would tone my
>triceps.

LOL!
Now that's ridiculous! (not just because of the light weight, but because the motion wouldn't hit the triceps, unless she's slinging the dishes backwards!).

Now, hauling cast iron cookware around the kitchen is another story, LOL!
 
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