From Anna Matsunaga, Team Momentum, Keller Williams Realty Tacoma 253-353-2662

www.teammomentumrealestate.com

In Pierce county and around the nation town homes are fast becoming a popular urban way to live.

Among the many benefits of Townhome living (easy to care for home, not having yard work, safety from close proximity to neighbors and so on)  is one that likely you have not thought of.

Weight loss, and better fitness may be a side effect of your new town home?  How so? 

Well, having 3 stories in your home means you do more stairs than if you lived in a Ranch style home.  So not only do you get more squarefootage for your money, you also get more exercize for your time spent in your home.  Walking around your ranch home doing your day to day chores and so on will burn about 6 calories a minute, however doing the same when taking the stairs in your 3 story townhome will burn more than double the calories, this of course adds up in the end cumulatively to weightloss. 

Not only that but the muscle built from doing stairs will continue to burn more calories per hour even if you are doing nothing than if you had not built the muscle.

To get an idea of the impact take a look at the 2 links that follow regarding stairs and impact on calories burned.

http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/NR/rdonlyres/erodpfuan72mqvpk55qngdskrs3uwpbwb6bj57gmw3tgtoewct6tm7jrtu6gvltq3pmk4um4676nan4cbfscmfr7tsc/calories.pdf

 http://espn.go.com/trainingroom/s/1999/0924/75442.html

This 3rd link also in addition to having information about stairs has some good basic information on how to cut calories in other painless ways as well.

http://exercise.about.com/cs/weightloss/a/howtoloseweight.htm

So not only will you likely get more house for your money with your new town home, but you may also get less of you from the resulting weightloss you get using the stairs in your home!

Anna Matsunaga Team Momentum Keller Williams Realty Tacoma

www.teammomentumrealestate.com 253-353-2662

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