30 Days of Squatting? Challenge Accepted!

Recently I have been bored on my computer so I have inevitably fallen into the hype of looking at things such as 'lol cats' and funny pictures. Whilst amusing, this activity is also rather soul crushing but amidst my pointless searching I came across a picture entitled 'The 30 day squat challenge' I didn't think much of it at first and went on to look at funny pictures of pugs doing handstands but it kept cropping up again and again, so without any other choice(and because I was curious) I found myself clicking on the picture.
Basically you are challenged to do roughly a month of squats, starting at 50 and working your way up to 250 in one day!
Challenge Accepted!

Naively, I thought '250 would be easy' I am currently on my 5th day and already my legs are killing me! I have worked up to 70 squats a day and already the difference is amazing! But you really do need to persevere,  its very easy to give up in this challenge!
Online people are raving about this. The soreness will pass and at the end the results will be well worth it apparently!
 Me and my friend are doing the challenge but decided to take it up a level! As well as the squats, we plan to match the amount done daily with sit-ups/crunches and all in one go, where as some people I have seen are spreading it out throughout the day!
So I will keep doing this challenge and update on my day 30, if you are doing it yourself let me know how its going! And for everyone else, I challenge you to do this! You won't be able to walk properly to begin with but it really is an interesting challenge!

k.

Keep your House Clean. Keep your Body Lean.

The dreaded housework. Hours slaving away to make your home clean and tidy. It's not really my idea of fun and sometimes it really does feel like a chore but it is actually rather useful in other ways than just keeping a lovely home. Exercise  Exercise is up there on my list of things I can't be bothered to do but I do anyway it often feels like a chore but recently I found out by cleaning your house you are actually killing two birds with one stone! (So to speak). It turns out that housework is a very rewarding form of exercise and you can burn an awful lot of calories this way and work on toning your body whilst you're at it!

House Work	Calories Burned on average
Laundry	73 calories
Making the bed	68 calories
Cooking	85 calories
Washing the dishes	78 calories
Ironing	78 calories
Hoovering	119 calories
Washing the floor	129 calories
Washing the windows	102 calories
Washing the car	102 calories

And those calories are burnt with very little movement! Turn on some music and get funky whilst cleaning, move more and you can burn twice as many calories! It all really does add up.
You can even burn more calories by doing things such as;

•  Leaving the laundry basket on the floor so you have to keep bending over! (almost like standing crunches)
•  Carrying things up the stairs one by one so you have to keep running up and down them.
•  Use wax polish instead of spray polish, you'll have to work harder to rub it in.
•  Clean out your cupboards, constantly reaching to the back.
•  Moving the furniture about to hoover under things.
•  Dusting all top shelves and high places to flatten that tummy.

Of course everybody is going to be different and lose the calories at a different rate but hopefully now you can see that it really is simple and effective. So there really is no excuse not to clean the house now! Pick up an apron, grab a cloth and start working on your clean house and lean body!

k.