Wearing a HRM during Yoga?

allforthethrill
allforthethrill Posts: 108 Member
edited January 13 in Fitness and Exercise
Hey!
I'm going to start doing some Yoga shortly and I was wondering if I should wear my HRM (Polar FT4 w/ chest strap) while I do it. I heard that you should only wear it during aerobic/ cardio based exercise.

THANKS!

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  • french_press
    french_press Posts: 18
    Bump, I am curious about this too. I did hot yoga for the first time tonight and was thinking about wearing my HRM during my next class.
  • allforthethrill
    allforthethrill Posts: 108 Member
    BUMP
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    Depends on what type of yoga you are doing. Most you won't need it since yoga is about relaxing and controlling your body, so your heart rate shouldn't be jumping around like crazy for you to need to monitor it. If you want to wear it once to figure out how many calories you burn in a certain period of time in order to use that as your gauge for the future when you do yoga and need to enter it in your calorie count, then that would be fine.
  • allforthethrill
    allforthethrill Posts: 108 Member
    Depends on what type of yoga you are doing. Most you won't need it since yoga is about relaxing and controlling your body, so your heart rate shouldn't be jumping around like crazy for you to need to monitor it. If you want to wear it once to figure out how many calories you burn in a certain period of time in order to use that as your gauge for the future when you do yoga and need to enter it in your calorie count, then that would be fine.


    Thank yoooou!
  • aalpass
    aalpass Posts: 124 Member
    I used it for pilates. it said abotu 130calories for the hour??? I burnt more wading through a toddler pool and sitting on my *kitten* for an hour. I think its like strength training and doesn't provide a true indication. Personal opinion only, as i really have NFI :D
  • kellehbeans
    kellehbeans Posts: 838 Member
    I wear my FT7 during hatha yoga, just to get a gist of how many calories I am burning. Your heart rate shouldn't be too high - but most certainly useful for calories!
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Bump, I am curious about this too. I did hot yoga for the first time tonight and was thinking about wearing my HRM during my next class.

    Heat is one of the things that will cause inaccurate readings as it can cause an elevated heart rate. HRMs assume that elevated heart rate is in relation to cardio and estimate calories based on that formula. The elevated heart rate due to heat or other factors doesn't have a relationship with calories burned. The readings will be inflated.
    HRMs are also not accurate for low intensity exercise. So it would depend on the type of yoga but for the most part, no.
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Azdak/view/the-real-facts-about-hrms-and-calories-what-you-need-to-know-before-purchasing-an-hrm-or-using-one-21472
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