Hot Yoga?

sweetsriracha23

Anyone else here doing hot yoga? If so, how do you track your calories burned?

I know claims of burning 1,100-1,600 calories in a Bikram class have largely been debunked. However, I'm pretty dubious that an hour spent balancing on my arms and moving through an aggressive vinyasa flow burns the same amount of calories as walking moderately, which is what MFP's exercise calculator says

firststepformefal

I do hot yoga. I just got into it seriously in October. I track it on Map My Fitness. It gives me a burn of around 2200 for the 90 minute class. I doubt I am burning that. I do not eat back my calories, so I eat about 1200 calories a day.

bluefish86

There are no Vinyasas in Bikram Yoga, so unless you're doing a hot power class, you'll likely be burning less.

Honestly, as with any exercise the best you're going to get is an estimate. Start by eating back 50-75% of whatever you think you've burned and track your weight for a few weeks to see if that number needs tweaking.

erimethia_fekre

^Agreed^

I never track burned calories. I eat a higher amount of calories regardless so it all balances out

Noreenmarie1234

I do bikram and count it as 200 burned

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sweetsriracha23

bluefish86 wrote: »

There are no Vinyasas in Bikram Yoga, so unless you're doing a hot power class, you'll likely be burning less.

Honestly, as with any exercise the best you're going to get is an estimate. Start by eating back 50-75% of whatever you think you've burned and track your weight for a few weeks to see if that number needs tweaking.

Yup, sorry for the inaccurate language. I do hot power yoga at a hot studio that's not affiliated with Bikram.

and ultimately, y'all are right. Experiment and track. For now, I'm typically trying to not eat back my activity calories, so we'll see where this lands me.

brianpperkins

Colorado State University did the research. Hot yoga has a comparable caloric burn to walking.

noirprncess

I've been tracking my burns with each class using a heart rate monitor. It really depends on the type of movement but I burn between 275-500 cals with each class. That's me taking brief pauses from time to time. With practice positive I can get this into the 500-600 cal range.