Sauna as exercise
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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?
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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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