Calorie Burn: 1.5 hours of cleaning my 2-bedroom apartment

I have company coming today and it was the perfect time to give the apartment a once-over. I don't have a lot of things to dust and I don't have a lot of carpet to vacuum (which is unfortunate because I am a Dyson owner and there's nothing I love more when cleaning house than a good, cathartic vacuuming).

However, I have two cats that rough-house A LOT, so sometimes I'll be walking through an area and the air current from my walking past draws out some significantly large cat hair tumbleweeds (tumblefurs? I've invented a new word).

So, after doing my house cleaning, I promptly removed my Armband, plugged it in to find out how many calories that just burned:

300 calories!

See that flat spot in the middle? That's when my Dyson sucked up a pen and I had to find where it had lodged itself in the hose and remove it, which I did.


Housecleaning is well worth the good feeling it leaves me with when I've made everything fresh and sparkly, and makes me feel like I can have people over without concern for tumblefurs rolling by, AND I burned a good amount of calories!