Sauna Calories burnt

Chi2dallas
Chi2dallas Posts: 2
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Hello all I read about sitting in the sauna for 30 mines burning as much as 300 calories anymore else doing this? What about tracking it in fitness pal?

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  • fearlessleader104
    fearlessleader104 Posts: 723 Member
    Yeah... no.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    No calorie burn, it's just water weight.
  • Chi2dallas
    Chi2dallas Posts: 2
    Oh, ok thanks for the reply. Did you see the article on livestrong.com? Confusing
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    If the sauna burned 300 calories in 30 minutes I would never do cardio.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    If the sauna burned 300 calories in 30 minutes I would never do cardio.

    Yep,sitting on my can!!
  • ChazzyEvilKitty
    ChazzyEvilKitty Posts: 20 Member
    Honestly I just thought it was for water weight, as normally my friends use it a lot before they go on holiday so they get used to high temperatures?
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
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  • Khukhullatus
    Khukhullatus Posts: 361 Member
    It's pretty common for people to confuse sweating with burning calories since we tend to do one when we are doing the other, but you only sweat to cool you down. It has nothing to do with whether or not you are burning calories.

    There are lots of days where I run in 20-35 degree weather, and I won't sweat at all, but I'm definitely still burning calories. On the other side of the spectrum is the sauna. You aren't doing anything, so you aren't burning any calories, but you are sweating like crazy.
  • TheNoLeafClover
    TheNoLeafClover Posts: 335 Member
    That is untrue. Livestrong is not a good source for accurate information.

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