This should be possible as long as you are not sitting or lying still. Doing housework is also an activity, although it is not as targeted as fitness exercises, such as building muscles and waist and abdomen. Retirement and certain activities at home can also have the effect of exercise. After exercising, come back to do housework. I can't do this anymore. Everything I eat is ready-made, so doing housework is the first priority, and the elderly can only do this. My personal opinion is that doing housework can't replace exercise. These are two different things. It is best to be grounded when people are alive, especially when they often stay at home after retirement. It is easy to be depressed and affect your mood. On the contrary, it is not good for their health. They should go out for a walk and meet each other every day.
Washing clothes and cooking can't achieve the effect of fitness. If you want to keep in shape, you have to exercise regularly, such as jogging, brisk walking, yoga and square dance, which can all play the role of exercise. I don't think doing housework can replace fitness exercise. It is irregular to collect housework and cook at home. I do it at will and have no sense of supervision. Go outside to exercise, run, dance and so on. Use your strength and concentrate. Let all the limbs move.
Doing housework and purchasing ingredients requires walking, lifting heavy objects, sweeping the floor and cleaning tables and chairs at home to drive limbs to exercise, hanging clothes, weeding and turning the ground when growing vegetables, and so on. They all get exercise at the end of the day, and the cumulative exercise time is quite long. Cleaning at home, under normal circumstances, the activity is not very large. Speaking of holiday cleaning, it may be a bit heavy and tiring, but compared with exercise and fitness, there is still a gap.