do you burn more calories when you teach a class?

catniss

Just wondering...I teach a beginner's Pilates class and was curious if I burned more calories as an instructor or when I'm able to totally focus on myself. Thoughts?

anubis609

I suppose that would depend on if you have to constantly walk around and check to make sure your members are doing the poses correctly, or if you are just performing the exercises and hopefully they pick up on the pose themselves... Though, I can't speak on it since I don't have personal experience teaching a group of people.

My opinion would be you might burn less if you had to stop in the middle of a move to check up on them.