List of what a housewife, with a resting hear rate of 70,
goes through in a segment of a typical morning:
|
Time
|
Activities
|
Hear Rate
|
|
8:00 A.M.
|
Dish washing, tidying living room, walking around
|
70-90
|
|
8:15 A.M.
|
Storing pots and pans in lower cupboards and food in upper ones
|
90-120
|
|
8:25 A.M.
|
Hanging up children’s clothes, putting away toys and books, carrying
vacuum cleaner upstairs, vacuuming upstairs rooms
|
120-140
|
|
8:50 A.M.
|
Carrying vacuum cleaner downstairs, vacuuming stairs and downstairs
rooms
|
140-160
|
|
9:05 A.M.
|
Polishing dining room table, scrubbing bathroom floor
|
150
|
|
9:30 A.M.
|
Sitting down briefly, then stretching out on the rug for a two-minute
rest
|
120-80
|
Stretching
out horizontally can be a cool-down exercise. It causes the blood to be pumped
from the exercised muscles back to the heart and intestines, thus normalizing
the heart rate.
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MARCH 8
