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denise_earheart
denise_earheart Posts: 354
edited September 27 in Introduce Yourself
Do you guys think it would be a good work out schedule to switch between yoga and cardio every other day????? Also I have tried to track yoga in the exercise here before and cant seem to find it???? Any idea what we burn during yoga????/

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  • JJHudgens
    JJHudgens Posts: 96 Member
    If you have a costco membership, go get their NB Heart Rate Monitor, $39.99! That will help you know exact! :)
  • Satya_Ayurveda
    Satya_Ayurveda Posts: 91 Member
    Depends on what type of yoga you are doing? I practice yoga every day, 7 days a week...but I also do cardio several times throughout the week. Anything from Zumba to kickboxing classes, etc. You can expect to burn anywhere from 100 calories to 400 calories approx in a yoga class depending on whether you are doing restorative or bikram. Just depends!
  • Satya_Ayurveda
    Satya_Ayurveda Posts: 91 Member
    Oh, but to add... yoga would not count as a cardio. You just simply don't get your heart rate up. The goal is to slow down your heart rate with your breath while increasing strength and stability. But you can still log it by creating an exercise. I agree with the above poster about using a hrm.
  • dragonbug300
    dragonbug300 Posts: 760 Member
    If you want to take off-days from cardio, try strength training on days that you do yoga as well.
  • melbaby925
    melbaby925 Posts: 613
    I found yoga under cardio when I was entering my exercises. Didn't expect to see it there, but that's how I stared recording it. Also, I got a bodybugg, I use it when I do anything I want to record as exercise: yard work, yoga, gym exercises. That's been helping a lot!
  • denise_earheart
    denise_earheart Posts: 354
    I found yoga under cardio when I was entering my exercises. Didn't expect to see it there, but that's how I stared recording it. Also, I got a bodybugg, I use it when I do anything I want to record as exercise: yard work, yoga, gym exercises. That's been helping a lot!
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    I would like to get one but have only heard of them being a few hundred dollars each and we just moved into a new house with a lot of repairs so all of our money is going to that :(
  • denise_earheart
    denise_earheart Posts: 354
    I could get the heart rate monitor though.
  • jdr03272
    jdr03272 Posts: 5 Member
    If you want to burn calories doing yoga, try P90X yoga. I'm not big on P90X, but the yoga session was insane. I was absolutely dripping sweat everywhere to the point where I was literally slipping on it. Not very restorative though, you feel like you got hit by a train after (and I normally lift lots of weights)...
  • paulhood
    paulhood Posts: 30
    Also, I got a bodybugg, I use it when I do anything I want to record as exercise: yard work, yoga, gym exercises. That's been helping a lot!

    The bodybugg is awesome for counting calories for exercise. I bought mine some time ago and just started using it again. I don't know that I would out-right recommend it over everything else because it is so expensive plus the monthly fee. It does have a lot of great information though. Anyone considering one should definitely look at all the options first. I would go back and look over my options if I could. I got some money for my birthday and used that to help buy it so it wasn't so bad. The worst part is that it was sitting in a drawer for almost a year while I was paying almost $7/month.
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