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The DIY jobs that help you lose weight faster from painting to building flat pack furniture – The Sun

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SQUEEZING a work out into our busy schedules can sometimes be stressful and time consuming.

New data has revealed that completing long-awaited DIY projects around the house could help you lose weight with some tasks burning over 400 calories.

It was recently revealed that millennial homeowners have done the most work around the house while they have been stuck inside during the coronavirus lockdowns.

The new research states that getting stuck into chores could also help you shift the pounds.

Researchers found that tasks such as building furniture and doing the gardening could help you on your weight loss journey.

In order to determine which DIY tasks burnt the most calories researchers gave three men and three women FitBits to wear and tracked how many calories they burnt when doing tasks around the house.

The three men weighed 84.9kg (13st 3lbs) and the three women weighed 72.8kg (11st 4lbs), these weights are classed as the average weight for men and women by the NHS Health Report.

They were then instructed to wear the FitBits for 15 days.

The data from the FitBits revealed that sanding burnt the most calories per hour with women burning on average 392 calories and men burning 456.

This exercise was class as "high" when FitBit logged how intense it was.

According to Kane Hughes, expert at MyJobQuoteUK, sanding is something most people can do.

He said: If youre sanding furniture, such as tables and chairs, this can usually be done with sand paper and can take half a day for a whole dining room set.

Others in the high intensity group included carpentry, which burnt 383 calories for women and 438 for men.

Kane cautioned that some carpentry tasks should be left to professionals.

"With carpentry, hanging doors and installing door frames is best left to a professional carpenter as it has to be done correctly and measured perfectly, to ensure your doors open properly.

"To hang a door takes about twenty minutes to an hour and installing door frame will take around the same amount of time."

Tiling was also a fat burner with women burning 362 calories and men burning 419.

Next on the list was painting, and if you're looking to give your home a fresh new look then you could also burn 354 calories if you're a woman and 386 if you're a man.

Plastering was also in the hard category and women can burn up to 351 calories with the task, while men can burn 379.

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Looking at moderate exercises and pruning the roses and getting out in the garden could help women burn 306 calories, while men can burn up to 337.

Kane added: "Weeding is easy to complete yourself and can take a couple of hours a month.

"Something more technical, like tree trimming or removing a tree stump, its better to hire a contractor as its safer for them to complete as they know what theyre doing (and may need the use of power tools) and shouldnt take more than a day to complete.

Cleaning the gutters will help women burn 268 calories, while it will help men shift 312.

If you're looking to sort your fences out in time for winter then getting outside and dealing with them could help you burn 261 calories if you're a woman and 286 for men.

And if you're looking to save money on calling the plumber out then perhaps it's time for you to get under the sink yourself.

Women could burn around 252 calories while men could burn 274 for fixing leaky pipes.

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For those of us who don't want to go all out and over exert ourselves, there is also a range of chores you can complete which will still help you burn over 300 calories.

If you've been reading a lot of books during the coronavirus lockdown, then it's likely you will need somewhere to store them.

The data found that putting up shelves burnt 249 calories for women and 291 for men.

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If you got a bit click happy and ordered too much flat pack furniture from Ikea, you'll be pleased to know that building your new working from home set up could help you burn 241 calories if you're a woman and 285 if you're a man.

We've all missed our loved ones during the lockdown and a perfect way to look back on happier times is to put some pictures up around your home.

The research found that hammering nails burnt 229 calories for women and 259 for men.

Electrical works burnt 214 calories for women and 228 for men, while putting up wall paper burnt 180 calories for women and 217 for men.

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