Help with logging in exercise and calories

awkwardbae
awkwardbae Posts: 35 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Hello. So lately I've been doing yoga videos for exercise daily and I'm mostly doing this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci3na6ThUJc

which I find extremely difficult and I sweat like never before. Can someone tell me around how many calories this exercise burns and how I should log it in? Thanks in advance.

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Have you tried logging it as yoga? It's under cardio. The calories seemed a bit high when I logged it so I would adjust down for me.
  • awkwardbae
    awkwardbae Posts: 35 Member
    I just gave it a try and it says that it burns around 100 calories. Does that seem right? I find the exercise to be a bit too hard for just that little calories
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    awkwardbae wrote: »
    I just gave it a try and it says that it burns around 100 calories. Does that seem right? I find the exercise to be a bit too hard for just that little calories

    Yoga is not a big calorie burner. Sweating is your body cooling itself, not really indicative of calorie burn.

    If your goal is calorie burn - cardio is generally higher. But MFP calorie burns are estimates. Take these numbers with a grain of salt. Many MFP users eat back 50-75% of exercise calories because estimates tend to be generous.
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