Yoga - cardio?

Gailknitwit
Gailknitwit Posts: 1
in Fitness and Exercise
Why is yoga on mfp as cardio rather than strength? And, is there any way to change the category? I can't create a new exercise because # reps, is required and that doesn't apply to yoga.

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  • Joreanasaurous
    Joreanasaurous Posts: 1,384 Member
    I think everything is listed in cardio as a way to track calories burned. I log stuff like that as cardio and then just manually change the calories burned to 1
  • TEMMEAlexa
    TEMMEAlexa Posts: 79 Member
    I'd say that you can perform cardio exercises through yoga. Some yoga exercises require a lot of effort. I don't exactly remember, but I think I read somewhere about the count of calories lost through those exercises.
  • yogicarl
    yogicarl Posts: 1,260 Member
    Yoga isn't necessarily cardio - though some styles can be - but they all burn calories; just some styles more than others.

    Personally, I have set up my own Yoga styles according to how hard the session was (calorifically speaking) and enter the nearest one - 200 per hour for a general yoga session, 300 per hour for my Ashtanga class. These calorie counts seem to work for me.

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