Does doing laundry manually burns fats?

Hello leeandrew, Well taking a washing machine as a different thing I am sure we will burn more fats washing our clothes with our hands. I am too lazy to bother even thinking of doing it because I can avail the opportunity to use a semi automatic washing machine and as far as lifting up buckets of water, yes it will help exercise but do that on a more regular basis if you actually want to lose some weight. I would recommend washing your clothes with your hands unless you are as lazy as me. And talking about sweat yeah, that is absolutely necessary as it reflects that your body has done enough to heat up and also sweating cleans the skin pores and makes you drink more water so it is definitely a good thing. If rinsing your clothes doesn't bring you sweat, it doesn't mean you are doing no exercise but yes that will keep your muscles going but not too good for loosing weight. I would recommend you walk for an hour at least, everyday. That should do for a good start, just casual walking and then later you may want to speed up a little or go for longer walks.

What I know is that our body can burn fats even without doing too much. Even reading a book could help burn fats. It really depends on a person's metabolism, and different people have different levels of such. I mean, some have vigorous workouts but the fats that are burned might be less than say someone who does leisurely walks but has a faster metabolism rate.

Hi there! You are most definitely burning fat doing your laundry the way you described it. Any amount of physical exertion means you are burning calories. Be it the little walking that you do, washing clothes manually or even vacuuming! For any physical activity (or any activity at all), your body needs energy and for that, we burn fats. Based on how much strain the activity puts on our body, we may burn less or more fat. Amount of sweat that you get while doing work varies from one person to the next person. For instance, I sweat very less even in very high temperatures. I have oily skin, so my skin gets greasy, but I don't sweat much. Sweat has little to do with the amount of fat you burn. Take care and God bless.

Yes. Although you also have to fight the temptation to do the cleaning 'the easy way' (just let the clothes sit in some soapy water for a little while, then hang `em out to dry). Or you could just do `em the easy way & let `em sit and/or dry while you're exercisin`

I think it does. For sure, that burns fats. Especially if your doing piles of it.

When ever you are doing anywork you are burning fat whether you are sweating or no. yes you are burning fat when washing clothes with hand. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.

I have started doing a lot more house work recently, and I have noticed that I am losing weight better. If you're moving at all then you're burning more calories than you would be doing if you were just sitting down and doing nothing. So you are definitely doing more manually than doing it with a machine. You should do this anyway because not only does it mean that you're able to burn more fat, but it also means that you can save money on the energy bills that you would have used if you've chosen to use your machine.

Any type of physical work will burn fat! when I had my young family[ and I did work outside the home as well]I managed to keep a good body shape...but now since I retired the weight keeps on coming on! what Am I to do? I do gardening, I walk eat less but nothing seems to help!I guess metabolism slow down with age so I guess I will have to walk even more.

Yes, I guess you're burning your fats even if you don't sweat that much. I also do my laundry manually. Sometimes my hands get painful. LOL. It's okay. It's fun washing clothes with my husband. While doing our laundry, we chit chat. It's one of our bonding moments. Happy mylotting.

I once read that we burn calories continuously even as we sleep so doing manual labor will definitely burn some fats, maybe not enough to lose weight but at least it will keep off recently consumed calories. :)

Thank god and i think that most exercise is mainly becuse of you try to doing something to lose your calory.So just work hard on that and i'm not so sure whether it depends on sweating.Feel good after exercising and i believe you will benefit from that.Good luck to you.

If you're going to do that as an everyday routine, of course it will. As of now, have it as an inspiration so you'll not get bored and tired on your chores.

Off course.. Doing household works helps to burn fat. Because its just a exercise with your body. Sweating does not help to burn fat. Sweating helps us to keep the body temperature normal when the temperature of body rises.