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Gardening is a sure-fire way to gain good health and keep it too, this is an advice from one who has learnt the benefits of gardening in the best way possible. Gardening is a lot of hard work but immensely satisfying. What you do not realise at the time is it helps you shed excess flab and feel ever so fit. There you are in your garden, weeding, pushing and pulling, pruning, trimming, hacking, planting. It is like taking care of a child, requiring constant care and attention.
One of the great things about gardening is that it leaves you with no choice: you just have to move your body this way and that, kneeling, squatting, sitting on your haunches. Think about it. Bending to get a twig above ear level. Going down on your knees to clean a particular square of a flower bed. Stretching sideways to pick a tomato or two from your vegetable patch. Basically what you are doing is bending and stretching exercises, giving your joints a gentle workout.
Mowing the lawn for an hour actually helps you burn something like 400 calories. You burn fat in shorter bursts in the gym or while doing some intense, timed activity. When gardening, you burn energy more steadily, which is more effective when trying to lose weight. Those who have been gardening for a long time will tell you that building and maintaining a compost heap, sorting fallen branches and spreading mulch are all on the keep-fit chart. However, one doesn’t need to do all that straight away. Gentler tasks include tidying the garden, sowing seeds and weeding patch by patch.