Sauna as exercise
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Well I'm sweating that has to count for something.
This is water weight, which you gain back after rehydrating yourself by drinking water (or beverage of choice). If this "timing" helps you for a weigh-in....then I guess it's something. But being dehydrated won't be a permanent state.
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No caloric burn for sauna sitting. You burn calories breathing, going to the bathroom, chewing food and swallowing. Heck, you burn calories growing hair and fingernails. Are you going to count those too?2
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I ate some spicy ramen yesterday that made me sweat. That doesn't mean it was exercise.2
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thorsmom01 wrote: »Just because you are sweating doesn't mean its exercise.
I've saw people here log pushing a grocery cart, sex, walking to the mailbox as exercise. This is just another one of those things.
If you burn a few extra calories by sitting in a sauna then consider it a bonus but that's about it.
If you want something, you'll have to work for it.
Best answer.
But isn't working for something maybe hard?0 -
I really didn't think it did much, just maybe a little.0
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Larissa_NY wrote: »Come on, now. No reasonable person can actually think that sitting in the sauna counts as exercise. Or that there's anything "tough" about literally sitting on a bench and not moving.
Here's a good rule of thumb: if you have to ask "Does this count as exercise?" then it's not exercise and you know it. You're just asking people to enable you in your quest to eat more. I have to give you credit, though - attempting to get people to agree with you that sitting in a sauna is a tough workout is one of the more ambitious goals I've seen in posts like this.
Burned more Calories typing OP than lying in the sauna.0 -
Larissa_NY wrote: »Come on, now. No reasonable person can actually think that sitting in the sauna counts as exercise. Or that there's anything "tough" about literally sitting on a bench and not moving.
Here's a good rule of thumb: if you have to ask "Does this count as exercise?" then it's not exercise and you know it. You're just asking people to enable you in your quest to eat more. I have to give you credit, though - attempting to get people to agree with you that sitting in a sauna is a tough workout is one of the more ambitious goals I've seen in posts like this.
Burned more Calories typing OP than lying in the sauna.
The sad thing is that this is probably the literal truth.0 -
You people are doing it wrong. You don't just sit in a sauna. You beat yourself senseless with a birch broom, vigorously throw buckets of water unto the rocks to drive your neighbors out, and cry shivering in fetal position once they leave. I have not even touched the subject of curls with bottles of beer, or the inevitable fisticuffs that follow a successful sauna.
Seriously though, do it long enough and your metabolism is in overdrive. Count an Oreo for every half an hour at least.
This from a person that doesn't need to to use a loan word to say sauna.4 -
No!0
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A qualified yes0
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No0
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Im going to have to add that if your heart rate doesn't go up, you're in a warm room, not a sauna. I'm curious as to what constitutes a sauna in non-Russo-Scandinavian gyms.1
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Just because your heart rate goes up doesn't mean it is exercise. I'm tachycardic when anaemic and had a 140 resting heart rate and I didn't burn extra calories0
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No caloric burn for sauna sitting. You burn calories breathing, going to the bathroom, chewing food and swallowing. Heck, you burn calories growing hair and fingernails. Are you going to count those too?
^ This, is your answer!
You burn calories being alive. A sauna feels great after exercising, but no added calorie burning for sitting there sweating, other than what you would burn sweating outside in the hot sun. May increase your calorie burn over just sitting, but I wouldn't count it as exercise.
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This is nit picking, but the the title mentions sauna so I'm obliged.
Since this has basically evolved into discussion about BMR, go see what happens to it when exposed to ambient temperatures beyond centrally heated 21 degrees Celsius. A truly cheap way to lose weight in colder climates is to turn off the heat and go full Monty with comfy slippers.1 -
So I exercise regularly, but I also sit in the sauna after my workout for about 15 min. I want to know does that count as exercise? Because I don't see it in the panel of different exercises, so does it really make a difference? It certainly feels like it when I'm in there.
It does not. Otherwise summer would make us all swole as kittens.1 -
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I owed an extra 9k this year... Tax preparer got lucky I didn't set her house on fire. I was angry. Then realized I just need a snickers. I wasn't me.0
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