Garden Tips
Getting In Shape to Garden
MSU Extension Publication Number: P4078
View as PDF: P4078.pdf
Gardening is a physically demanding activity requiring strength, flexibility, and endurance. The average adult burns 175 to 300 calories per hour doing light tasks like planting and potting. Heavier-duty tasks like running a tiller or pushing a wheelbarrow full of soil can burn 450 to 550 calories per hour. That’s about the same as a light to moderate 1-hour workout in a gym.
Training your body ahead of time for working in the garden, yard, or flower beds can help you avoid the aches and pains often associated with gardening. This publication describes home exercises you can perform using items found in and around the home as equipment.
Leg, hip, and buttock muscles do a lot of work when walking, pushing, pulling, and squatting, such as when planting a garden or weeding a flower bed. Performing exercises that target those muscles will improve strength and flexibility.
Please download the complete publication, P4078.pdf, above for interesting and helpful tips for simple exercises.
MSU Extension Publication Number: P4078
View as PDF: P4078.pdf
Gardening is a physically demanding activity requiring strength, flexibility, and endurance. The average adult burns 175 to 300 calories per hour doing light tasks like planting and potting. Heavier-duty tasks like running a tiller or pushing a wheelbarrow full of soil can burn 450 to 550 calories per hour. That’s about the same as a light to moderate 1-hour workout in a gym.
Training your body ahead of time for working in the garden, yard, or flower beds can help you avoid the aches and pains often associated with gardening. This publication describes home exercises you can perform using items found in and around the home as equipment.
Leg, hip, and buttock muscles do a lot of work when walking, pushing, pulling, and squatting, such as when planting a garden or weeding a flower bed. Performing exercises that target those muscles will improve strength and flexibility.
Please download the complete publication, P4078.pdf, above for interesting and helpful tips for simple exercises.
