Calories burned during yoga

candiceryan32

hi all, I am recently recommitted to weight loss, and I've been doing daily hot yoga classes. They are 75 min long, partially holding poses like bikram and part vinyasa flow. I am a 32 year old female 5'6" and currently 218 lbs. I am pretty out of shape, but am able to complete these pretty difficult classes, although I'm not always able to hold the poses the entire time.

I am wondering about a general estimate of calories burned for me. I know that people who weigh less and are in better shape don't burn a tremendous amount of calories doing yoga when compared to straight cardio, but I can definitely feel my heart pumping and my breathing becomes hard. I am giving 100% and am SORE afterwards. I don't own a Fitbit type of thing, and I've had trouble pinning down a reliable estimate when I google it.
Thanks in advance for any info.

brianpperkins

Yoga burns about as much as walking.

https://sites.google.com/site/compendiumofphysicalactivities/

mbaker566

it depends on the type of yoga you do

spark people calorie counter

glamour's counter

Hornsby

Around 200 per hour I would guess.

brianpperkins

moyer566 wrote: »

it depends on the type of yoga you do

spark people calorie counter

glamour's counter

That total is from Glamour is absolute humor. Unless a person weighs about 330 pounds, they quite simply are not burning nearly 600 calories from an hour of power yoga ... and even then they are not netting nearly 600 calories from the activity. Power yoga has a MET of 4.0 ... less than (but comparable to) walking 3.5 mph on a level surface.

Before the insane amounts claimed for hot yoga get tossed about ... an actual study done.

http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/7359

peachyfuzzle

moyer566 wrote: »

it depends on the type of yoga you do

spark people calorie counter

glamour's counter

This is insane. I am 250lbs, and just barely burn that amount running 3 - 4 miles straight at 6mph without walk breaks. There's no way any kind of yoga would burn anywhere near as many calories, esepcially for someone who weighs 167lbs.

I would say that the walking/yoga estimates given earlier are far more in the realm of probability.

candiceryan32

Thanks everyone!