Book Review: The Aerobic House Cleaning Lifestyle by Stevie Markovich
Book Review: The Aerobic House Cleaning Lifestyle by Stevie Markovich
This book was basically about how to turn house cleaning into aerobic exercise. To that end the author did a fairly good job. There were several good actual fitness tips included throughout and even some detailed explanations of some exercises with photos included. Please note that in the kindle edition the photos were very small and there was no way to make them larger like you can do to the text.
One good tip was to clean while wearing a heavy backpack and heavy boots and I can see how that would ramp up your exertion and therefore your energy expenditure.
Mr. Markovich was adamant about the importance of good form, most importantly being to “keep your back straight”. Other tips that the author deemed important were to breathe properly and that sweat is your friend.
Also included were exercises using household items (presumably after your were done with your actual house cleaning). Those seemed at least somewhat useful as well.
What I did not like was the author’s use of the word, “I”. In fact there was way too much unnecessary autobiographical information altogether. It was boring and at times, prideful.
He also at times seemed condescending and insulting by using words like “fat” and “lazy”. Even though these words were not directed at anyone in particular it was easy to take them personally and be insulted for yourself or for a loved one.
Mr. Markovich also believes the fallacy of eating less and exercising more as the be all end all answer to successful weight loss. Space and context does not permit me to properly debate this but suffice it to say that it IS a fallacy.
Lastly, even though I was given this book through a Christian blogging for books program I would not consider this book to be a Christian book. There were some mentions here and there of scripture or of God but they seemed cursory.
If you are looking for ways to incorporate more exercise into your normal day that includes house cleaning and you can get past the negatives that I mentioned this may be a worthwhile book to check out, so probably best for Christian stay-at-home-parents who want to add more fitness to their already full schedule.
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