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Adding Yoga Class

pitnerm107
pitnerm107 Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Is there a way to add an hour long yoga class that I attend regularly? Or can you only add the workouts listed in the menu?

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,049 Member
    edited February 12
    pitnerm107 wrote: »
    Is there a way to add an hour long yoga class that I attend regularly? Or can you only add the workouts listed in the menu?

    If you can afford it, invest in a tracker.

    Mine (Apple Watch) automatically distinguishes a more energetic flow class versus a more relaxed one versus a yin class and records a much more accurate estimate of calories burned.

    If you’re relying on MFP, it’s kind of one size fits all. There can be quite a difference between types of yoga.

    Getting a tracker rocked my world, and helped me understand how hard it was to burn off, say, a sad little serving of 2 Oreos, or the mega bowl of Breyers Chocolate Chip Mint I used to eat every night. (It was mega because I had to dig out all the chips and was cool if ice cream came out with them lol. )

    Same with pretty much any activity. My husband records his aquafit sessions on his watch, and I guarantee you there’s some women in the Gossip Corner awarding themselves just as many calories as him
    that running their mouths doesn’t earn.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,049 Member
    And welcome
    To MFP @pitnerm107 !
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,266 Member
    edited February 12
    pitnerm107 wrote: »
    Is there a way to add an hour long yoga class that I attend regularly? Or can you only add the workouts listed in the menu?

    Good advice from Spring up there. In the short run - or forever, if you don't want a tracker - there are a bunch of yoga options in the cardiovascular section of the MFP database that you can use to log your class.

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    I'd probably just use that top one, personally - seems more realistic than some of the others, calorie-wise . . . might even be a lowball, but for many of us over-estimating exercise calories is a bigger risk than under-estimating them. When starting out, under-estimating them tends to only become a problem if cutting eating calories way too low for fast loss, then under-estimating exercise on top of that.

    I showed the yoga list as it appears in web browser MFP, but some of those same entries are available in the phone/tablet app. Just search "yoga" in the "browse all" tab when adding cardio exercise.
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