Garden Themed Workout: Ways To Exercise While Gardening

It’s a well-known fact that spending time outdoors appreciating the beauty of nature and wildlife can boost mental health and relaxation. Spending time outside tending to the lawn, garden, and landscape not only benefits mental health but contributes to the physical activity adults need each week to stay healthy as well. Does Gardening Count as Exercise? According to the Second Edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans at health.gov, adults need 150 to 300 minutes of moderate-intense aerobic activity each week. They also need muscle strengthening activities such as resistance training twice a week. Gardening chores such as mowing, weeding, digging, planting, raking, trimming branches, carrying bags of mulch or compost, and applying said bags can all count toward weekly activity. The Physical Activity Guidelines also state activities can be done in bursts of ten-minute periods spread throughout the week. Garden Themed Workout So how can gardening chores be […]

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