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Send this to someone who hates the gym but loves home improvement: Research shows that you can get some of the key benefits of a workout just by putting some extra oomph into your chores.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like doing daily activities on hard mode.<\/strong>\u00a0Raising your heart rate for just one to two minutes, three to four times per day, can\u00a0lower\u00a0your risks of cardiovascular disease and early death, compared to people with sedentary lifestyles, according to recent studies. To accrue those minutes, some researchers recommend working it into your daily routine, whether that means playing with your dog, power walking between household tasks, or taking multiple trips up and down the stairs to purge your closet.<\/p>\n Fans of the so-called lumberjack workout swear that there\u2019s no better way to engage all your muscles than by chopping timber. Chris Hemsworth, who typically wields a magical hammer, got in on the trend in recent years, Instagramming a video of himself\u00a0splitting wood\u00a0in his backyard that\u2019s now one of his most-liked posts.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, TikTok\u2019s\u00a0favorite log cutter\u00a0is a Californian named Thoren \u201cThor\u201d Bradley, who has amassed more than 10 million followers by splitting enormous pieces of wood and sometimes taking his shirt off. He also sells conventional fitness coaching.<\/p>\n British actress Elizabeth Hurley was early on the trend.<\/strong>\u00a0She\u00a0told\u00a0Extra in 2019 that, at the age of 54, she got her exercise from \u201cgardening\u2026cutting down a hedge, using my chainsaw to cut down a tree, logging.\u201d Proceed with caution, y\u2019all.\u2014ML<\/em><\/p>\n This report was originally published by <\/em>Morning Brew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #daily #tasks #double #exercise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Send this to someone who hates… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[2710,265,1509,5682,2709,763,2708,8526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Have a fireplace? Try swinging an axe<\/h2>\n
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