How many calories for Hot Yoga?

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  • lindssaurus
    lindssaurus Posts: 98 Member
    I did hot yoga for the first time last week. It was soooo hot! Lol wore a HRM and a hr and half burned 625.
    It was great felt refreshed and no pulled muscles the next day!
  • yogicarl
    yogicarl Posts: 1,260 Member
    No different to any non-hot yoga; vinyasa, power or ashtanga being slightly more in calorie burn than slower gentler styles.

    Around 250 - 300 calories.

    No - HRMs don't work in hot yoga - not because yoga is not cardio, but because the HRM works calorie burn out by recording heartrate over time and in hot yoga, your heartrate is elevated to attempt to cool down the body; hence artificially higher calorie readings for hot yoga.

    - note - the original poster put this question out in 2012.

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