SHOPPING BEATS GYM IN RACE FOR WEIGHT LOSS.
Shopping is said to be better at dropping the pound then working hard in the gym. Now that is something that all of us wants to hear isn’t it girls? We can actually say to our better halves that shopping is beneficial to us being healthy and it means we don’t have to slog ourselves in the gym!
The study, done by Brighton University of Sussex looked at 1,000 girls to see how their bodies reacted to the feeling of shopping. It says that heart rates increase and blood pressure rises, which all leads to the body being healthy, so no more looking at our selves in the mirror as we see the sweat pour out of us looking at all the physically fit people in the gym and wishing we had bodies like they did.
It means that on average an 11 stone woman could lose 444 calories which is the exactly the same as an hour of intense cycling on the machine! Now which would you rather choose… the cycling machine or the shopping? I think I hear all the girls screaming reading this saying oh the shopping, defiantly the shopping. Even though the shopping will cost a lot more then going to the gym/getting a membership at a gym, it works the exact.
I think to be honest this is just another excuse made up by a university to get all the woman happy that shopping helps but they have not got any good hard proof or %’s that help back up their theory. If I had to chose I would do the gym followed by the shopping, that way I could burn off twice as much calories and be happy that I can fit in to the new clothes I have just brought/going to by from shopping.
