No matter how you look at it, you will get a work out when you clean your home. This especially includes spring-cleaning because of the products and deep cleaning it normally involves. If you have ever shampooed a carpet or cleaned a marble floor by hand then you will know how exhausting it can be, even with the right products.
If you do choose to involve more exercise in your cleaning, you will have to be creative to get your family involved. Laughter is always good for your family’s health and it also is likely to lead to more family events being done together.
You can never go wrong with the classic squats and lunges when choosing exercises for your family. What is also great about them is that they can be combined while doing the typical chores of spring-cleaning.
Say you are cleaning out your fridge. When you clean the top area, only grab one wipe at a time and leave the rest on the ground. When you do that and repeat it vice versa then it will force you to squat over and over again all while getting the fridge clean. You could incorporate lunging into this by putting the trashcan a few yards away and lunging for the trash every time you have to throw a wipe out. This can be applied to most anything you normally clean.
A more interactive and fun idea is to involve a fun dance while cleaning. Make it a party by blasting the music and having a cleaning family party of sorts. When you make cleaning fun you are more likely to have your kids be repeat cleaners. You can choose any kind of music that your family agrees upon and have a blast!
Even if your family doesn’t get into the whole dance party idea, the act of playing music really can help motivate your family while cleaning. You could make picking out the music a prize or take turns per week or per spring-clean. Mom and Dad: do not forget to take your turns picking out some music too!
Involving games could be another away to get your family more involved in cleaning. You could make recycling into a game by setting up homemade or store bought mini hoops over the trash bags to help your kids remember to recycle. With this tip, try to keep this specific recycling game outside due to the certain messes it makes if someone might miss a shot.
When you get your family “in shape,” your family learns how too communicate more efficiently as well as spending more time together. Why not make family cleaning into a whole day by rewarding all the helpers with pizza, a movie, or even something really special like a theme park or a beach trip once the cleaning is complete.
One final note: Combining cleaning and exercise can sometimes be difficult to convince your kids to get on board. This is especially true if you are like many homeowners out there and unfortunately let their house get out of hand. Yes, you should have fun with your child and teach them what you can while doing what cleaning you can. Certain situations prove that the work load of too messy of a house might be too much for a normal family to tackle. That is where professional cleaning services come into play. There is no shame with letting the professionals use their specific equipment to get your house back into tip top shape.
