Health Tip: Housework Will Keep You Fit

(HealthDayNews) -- If you''re stuck with housework when you''d really rather be at the gym, you''ll be happy to learn that you''re getting the same workout either way.

According to an article a few years back in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, vacuuming and cleaning the bathroom both increase the heart rate and produce as much circulatory strain as a period of moderate aerobic exercise at the gym.

And while the amount of strain varies from person to person, vacuuming generally causes more strain than bathroom cleaning does.