Is Gardening good exercise?(Part two)
We certainly feel we have put in a good day's work after gardening for hours on end. But is gardening really considered good exercise? For the most part, yes. According to studies carried out, gardening rates up with other moderate to strenuous form of exercise, like walking or bicycling. It all depends on what gardening tasks you are doing and for how long. Like any other form of exercise, you have to be active for at least 30 minutes for there to be a benefit.

What makes Gardening good exercise?
While enjoying yourself in the garden you are also working all major muscle groups: legs, buttocks, arms, shoulders, neck, back, and abdomen. Garden tasks that use these muscles build strength and burn calories. Besides the exertion involved, gardening has other pluses that make it a good form of exercise and calorie burning. Click below for more information:

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There can be a great deal of stretching involved in gardening like reaching for weeds or tall branches, bending to plant and extending a rake. Lifting bags of mulch, pushing wheel barrow and shovelling all provide resistance training similar to weight lifting, which leads to healthier bones and joints. Yet while doing all this, there is minimal jarring and stress to the body, unlike aerobics or jogging.

Losing weight by Gardening:
Losing weight requires you to burn more calories than you consume and so the amount of weight you will lose gardening depends on several factors including your size and the task you are performing. Examples of Strenuous Gardening task can burn more calories:
Digging holes - men: 197 calories, women; 150 calories.
Planting - men: 157 calories, women 135 calories.
Weeding - men 157 calories, women 156 calories.