Homeowners burn more than 80,000 calories a year - by gardening and doing DIY. During a typical year, house proud Brits will spend a total of 165 hours - the equivalent of almost a week - pottering around the garden and fixing up their dwellings.
In that time they will burn 6,384 calories while weeding, 3,466 calories when pruning and 3,852 calories while watering the garden.
And while mowing the lawn might be considered more of a therapeutic task than a full workout, adults manage to shed 4,199 calories a year doing just that.
In the home itself, they'll also burn 2,161 calories when removing wallpaper, 4,145 while painting walls and 433 by hammering nails over the course of a year.
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