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Dusting

Admittedly, dusting isn’t the most intensive of household activities, but it is surprisingly good at burning calories and can even work in toning your arm muscles. It is thought that dusting for half an hour straight will help you burn approximately 50 calories, which is as many as can be found in a small chocolate bar. Not only will your surfaces be dust free, but you’ll be able to allow yourself a bit of guilt free indulgence.

Ironing

Half an hour's worth of ironing burns about 70 calories while simultaneously toning the muscles of the upper body. Be sure to maintain good posture while standing at the ironing board and press down firmly. Switch hands periodically so you don't overdevelop one arm, unless you feel this may be detrimental to the quality of your ironing or the safety of your garment.

Vacuuming

Vacuuming will not only work to burn calories, it will tone your arms and legs as well, especially if you own a heavy vacuum cleaner. An hour of vacuuming your carpet will burn approximately 180 calories, the same as you'd burn in 30 minutes of kick boxing. It’s important to switch which hands while vacuuming to ensure that you are getting an even workout.

Washing dishes

There’s nothing more daunting than a stack of plates, pots and pans heaped up in the kitchen sink. Look on the bright side, scrubbing grease stains of your crockery will burn approximately 160 calories in as little as half hour. Even loading your dishwasher burns calories at a rate of 105 per half hour, but when it comes to the housework-out, you’re better on putting on your rubber gloves and sticking to the old-fashioned way.

Painting

Whether you’re staining your deck, rejuvenating your hallway or painting over the unsightly shade of lime green in the living room, taking a brush or roller to the surfaces of your house will help you burn around 290 calories per hour. Painting is an excellent way to work your leg and arm muscles while building lean muscle mass.

Cleaning windows

Washing your windows allows you to burn calories, tone muscle and let more sunlight into your home. Wiping down your windows will burn about 250 calories per hour, the same number used in 40 minutes of power yoga, while the scrubbing motion will tone your back, shoulders and arms.

Scrubbing the floor

While using a mop to clean your kitchen floor makes for a good upper and lower body workout as well as burning around 240 calories in one hour, if you’re really serious about turning your housework into a workout nothing beats getting down and giving the tiles a good hand scrub. Not only will your floor look cleaner but you could burn as many as 400 calories in one hour while the scrubbing motion is great for toning your arms and your shoulders.

Washing the car

Instead of taking your car through the automatic carwash, you should consider washing it by hand. To begin with it’s a good excuse to get out in the sun, but more to the point, for every 30 minutes of car washing you'll burn 143 calories. Hand washing your car is good for working your arms and abdominals.

Gardening

Gardening offers some of the most labor intensive household tasks and allows you to work outside in the fresh air. Digging holes and raking the leaves will not only burn a lot of 315 and 225 calories per hour respectively, but they’ll also tone muscles in your arms and legs, helping get your body into shape. Mowing the lawn works the shoulders, arms, core and legs, and burns about 160 calories per half hour while weeding for 30 minutes burns 115 calories, the same amount you'd burn in 15 minutes of weight training.