A yoga class is not a yoga class is not a yoga class....

mycupyourcake
mycupyourcake Posts: 279 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Calling all yogis. I've been meaning to wear my HRM to yoga class to find my actual burn in my vinyasa and ashtanga classes but after finally unearthing it I realize it needs new batteries. Who out there has worn an HRM during a vinyasa class? How long was the class and what was your burn? MFP only gives me 175 calories for a class and I think that this is way under considering the types of classes I take. If I were in a slow hatha yoga class or a restorative class then maybe, but definitely not my ashtanga and vinyasa flow classes.

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  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    But what is a yoga class?

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  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    If you don't wear your HRM to your yoga class did you really go to your yoga class?
  • mycupyourcake
    mycupyourcake Posts: 279 Member
    If you don't wear your HRM to your yoga class did you really go to your yoga class?
    Hah! If a yogi falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it.......

    I need cat gifs!
  • Pinkranger626
    Pinkranger626 Posts: 460 Member
    Ok well I've worn mine to a hot power yoga class. Its always very challenging and I'm good and sweaty when I'm done. Top calorie burn was 207 calories for 90 minutes.
  • nuttyfamily
    nuttyfamily Posts: 3,394 Member
    HRMs are only accurate for steady state cardio. I don't think you'd get a true readout using it during yoga.
  • lilRicki
    lilRicki Posts: 4,555 Member
    I don't wear one to either of my yoga classes, if I did hot yoga however, I'd think differently for sure. I just think of 45 minutes of yoga as my refocus time.
  • TheGymGypsy
    TheGymGypsy Posts: 1,023 Member
    Yoga is a lot like weight training. Most of the calories you burn happen during muscle recovery afterwards, depending on the intensity of the class. I'd say in terms of actual cardio burn, I usually get 100-150 calories on my HRM during vinyasa.
  • snazzyjazzy21
    snazzyjazzy21 Posts: 1,298 Member
    HRMs are only accurate for steady state cardio. I don't think you'd get a true readout using it during yoga.

    This. HRM's aren't designed to work for yoga.
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,078 Member
    I think MFP is being generous.
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    Mfp does base the calorie burn on hatha yoga.
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
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  • h7463
    h7463 Posts: 626 Member
    Hi! I'm wearing a Polar H7 for any exercises that I'm doing, including yoga, weight training, swimming, throwing hay bales, and stacking fire wood. They record the heart rate and calculate the calories burnt, regardless of the activity, not just 'steady state'.
    My yoga experience is between 150 and 210 calories for 35 min. I would classify the kind of yoga that I'm doing as 'power yoga', fast paced, poses with movement, many transitions, no rest times.
    I'm female, 50, 134 lbs, 5'5", for comparison, because the HRM depend on your vital stats.
  • amwoidyla
    amwoidyla Posts: 257 Member
    I've worn mine to Bodyflow, which isn't true yoga I guess, but a yoga/pilates/awesome hybrid. It says I burn a little over 300 in 55 minutes. I don't always log the entire burn.
  • mycupyourcake
    mycupyourcake Posts: 279 Member
    Thanks all for your replies!
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    Hi! I'm wearing a Polar H7 for any exercises that I'm doing, including yoga, weight training, swimming, throwing hay bales, and stacking fire wood. They record the heart rate and calculate the calories burnt, regardless of the activity, not just 'steady state'.
    My yoga experience is between 150 and 210 calories for 35 min. I would classify the kind of yoga that I'm doing as 'power yoga', fast paced, poses with movement, many transitions, no rest times.
    I'm female, 50, 134 lbs, 5'5", for comparison, because the HRM depend on your vital stats.

    it will always give you a number

    just because it gives you a number, it doesn't mean that number is correct.
  • h7463
    h7463 Posts: 626 Member
    Hi! I'm wearing a Polar H7 for any exercises that I'm doing, including yoga, weight training, swimming, throwing hay bales, and stacking fire wood. They record the heart rate and calculate the calories burnt, regardless of the activity, not just 'steady state'.
    My yoga experience is between 150 and 210 calories for 35 min. I would classify the kind of yoga that I'm doing as 'power yoga', fast paced, poses with movement, many transitions, no rest times.
    I'm female, 50, 134 lbs, 5'5", for comparison, because the HRM depend on your vital stats.

    it will always give you a number

    just because it gives you a number, it doesn't mean that number is correct.

    I'm not going to dispute possible inaccuracies of HRMs. What I have been looking for, and I have been using a Polar FT7 and H7 for over one year now, is consistency. I start the HRM of my choice at the time of my warmup, and turn it off immediately after stretching and cool down, not waiting for my HR to go back to baseline. I have compared my results for different training sessions with both HRMs, and with the suggestions of 2 different databases, including those in MyFitnessPal. If in doubt, I am recording the lowest in my food tracker, and have enough wiggle room left for dessert....and that's pretty much what we all are looking for, right....? :happy:

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