Hot Yoga Calorie Burn

Pinkranger626
Pinkranger626 Posts: 460 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Ok so if you talk to most hot yoga instructors they tout the ability to burn 500 calories in a 60 minute class of Hot yoga (power yoga or vinyasa). I was curious to see how many calories I would burn in the 90 minute class that i usually attend since I'm always soaked when I'm done. I've been wearing my bodymedia so I was excited to see what it told me I burned.

If you look up power yoga in MFP it usually accredits you about 200 calories for 90 minutes give or take based on your stats. So I went to class, hurried home and plugged in my Bodymedia (I have the older version that won't sync with my iPhone) totally expecting to see 400-500 calories for all that work. I mean, I was drenched and exhausted!

171 calories in 90 minutes registered!! That's a huge difference from the 500 calories that I've heard thrown around! That made a difference in what I put in my mouth that day. Just thought I'd share!

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  • geekmomof3
    geekmomof3 Posts: 18 Member
    I do bikram yoga and my heart rate monitor registered about a 600 cal burn in a 90 min class. I was defiantly pushing my self that day. holding good solid poses.

    For 90 min I dont think that is unreasonable. if I was to do zumba for 90 min my cal burn would be way over that.
  • kamyers1289
    kamyers1289 Posts: 129 Member
    It depends on the style of yoga honestly. I've taken a vinyasa class that was 95 degrees and burned about 700 calories, but we never stopped moving for the entire 90 minutes.

    Conversely, a traditional Bikram class for me only burned about 200 calories, as Bikram is more holding the poses and breathing through the ridiculously insufferable heat and also teacher chatter. :)
  • RiverDancer68
    RiverDancer68 Posts: 221 Member
    I do hot Vinyasa Flow (at about 95-100 degrees). I think I have been logging way too high of a burn. I researched on the net and found most places giving this style of yoga around 350-450 calories burned for 60 minutes, but now I'm not so sure? I'm going to lower it, because even though I'm drenched when I'm done, I think a lot of that is from the intense heat.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    WUT?!?!? people who make money by promoting and selling workouts to paying clients sometimes overstate the effectiveness or calories burned from their workouts??? SHOCKING

    seriously, yoga isn't that much of a burnand the heat (and high humidity level of the typical hot yoga studio) is what's making your pour out sweat, not the intensity of the effort. sweat no equal cals burned. , although 200 cal for 90 mins does seems lowish. i'm assuming your device already accounted for your normal burn rate and just added the 200 on top?

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