Yoga burn

mycupyourcake
mycupyourcake Posts: 279 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Has anyone used an HRT during their ashtanga or vinyasa classes? If so, what was your estimated burn?

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  • crazybookworm
    crazybookworm Posts: 779 Member
    I use my HRM whenever I am doing ashtanga or vinyasa or Body Weight Yoga. For a half hour I always average about 130-150 burned depending on the class. Of course this varies with each class :)
  • Kpablo
    Kpablo Posts: 355 Member
    Has anyone used an HRT during their ashtanga or vinyasa classes? If so, what was your estimated burn?

    Doing ashtanga tonight, I'll let you know!
  • SUPERhecticMOM
    SUPERhecticMOM Posts: 61 Member
    Holy Bookworm! Wicked profile pic! Congrats to you!!

    I do yoga a few times a week and although some days can be pretty chill (and more mentally challenging) days like today I sweat my butt off and put in serious work lol.
    I often wonder if I'm burning much more than the MFP calculation...but I bought a HRM to figure this out and returned it 3 days later because I didn't have patience or desire to figure the sucker out.
  • mycupyourcake
    mycupyourcake Posts: 279 Member
    I use my HRM whenever I am doing ashtanga or vinyasa or Body Weight Yoga. For a half hour I always average about 130-150 burned depending on the class. Of course this varies with each class :)

    So at minimum if you took and hour and a half class you would see 390 minus some b/c of shavasana?
  • mycupyourcake
    mycupyourcake Posts: 279 Member
    bump.
  • phjorg1
    phjorg1 Posts: 642 Member
    1) HRM is useless for yoga. Any number is says will be completely random. That said, the number they do give are a good enough random number to put down for any log.

    2) You do yoga for reasons other than calorie burn. If you want calorie burn, then do very intense cardio + lift really heavy.
  • mycupyourcake
    mycupyourcake Posts: 279 Member
    @phjorg: I do yoga b/c I love it, but I still would like to know what kind of calorie burn people are coming up with. Thanks.
  • crazybookworm
    crazybookworm Posts: 779 Member
    I use my HRM whenever I am doing ashtanga or vinyasa or Body Weight Yoga. For a half hour I always average about 130-150 burned depending on the class. Of course this varies with each class :)

    So at minimum if you took and hour and a half class you would see 390 minus some b/c of shavasana?

    I've always burned around 200-220 for a one hour class. And I stop my HRM as soon as we are preparing for Savasana. Keep in mind that like all exercise, the calories burned vary quite a bit with each person because of weight, etc :)

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