(The fees usually cover an apartment with a kitchen, two or three meals a day, linen services, housecleaning and social activities. Personal and medical care are extra).
Activities such as housecleaning, washing clothes by hand, stretching, dancing, gardening, and bicycling at regular pace were classified as moderate.
"Dear Diary: We have decided that housecleaning should be a family activity and, as such, have pressed the youngest into making the beds.
When ticking off the benefits of physical activity, few of us would include intracellular housecleaning.
The vast majority of participants reported some level of involvement in moderate physical activity, i.e. that which could be considered activity over and above the general activity of day-to-day life, such as brisk walking, golfing, housecleaning, etc. Close to three-quarters of participants (71.7%) reported that they are moderately active for at least 4 hours per week.
Write down activities that could fill that time, such as work, studying, housecleaning, or other productive activities.
Physical activity releases stress-relieving endorphins in your body, and housecleaning can fill this role as easily as exercise at the gym.
Housecleaning, if approached correctly, can provide the stress-reducing benefits of physical activity.
Preferably, choose an activity that makes you happy, such as a sport, game, or hobby, but even work or housecleaning can be an effective distraction, as long as they are not the source of your frustration.
