How many calories does yoga REALLY burn?
katrinabriggs
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Hi everyone, I have been doing HOT yoga for a couple months now but the exercise section only has just "yoga" however I do different types with different heat levels. I have tried googling it but does anyone have a better idea of how many calories really are burned?
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it's fairly minimal0
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Impossible to measure. Not a lot.0
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My fitbit tells me I burn about 60 calories for 20 minutes of yoga.0
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The benefits of yoga are not meant to be the calorie burn.....and I don't think hot yoga would increase it anyway, you just lose a little water weight maybe, and it makes it easier to get the good stretch, but more calories burned? Probably not.0
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It would really depend on what type of yoga you're doing and how high your heart rate gets. I wear mine every time I go and in the 60 minutes it shows 350-420 calories depending on what we do that day, but they're all fusion classes. My heart rate is between 130 and 160 for at least 40 of the 60 minutes.0
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There recently was a comparison of regular yoga vs. hot yoga. In an hour, hot yoga burned like 2 more calories compared to regular yoga. FitBit & MFP tell me around 100 calories an hour, I usually give myself about 50. Not a lot but it sure feels good.0
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http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/7359
Female participants averaged 330 calories for 90 minutes according to the press release. I haven't looked into the actual study findings to see if that is gross or net calories burned.0 -
Who knows. Make a reasonable estimation, error low if unsure, and go on with your day.0
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brianpperkins wrote: »http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/7359
Female participants averaged 330 calories for 90 minutes according to the press release. I haven't looked into the actual study findings to see if that is gross or net calories burned.
That's ~3.6 cals per minute. Seems like a reasonable approximation to me.0 -
Corpse pose won't burn a lot no matter how hot it is.
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brianpperkins wrote: »http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/7359
Female participants averaged 330 calories for 90 minutes according to the press release. I haven't looked into the actual study findings to see if that is gross or net calories burned.
That's ~3.6 cals per minute. Seems like a reasonable approximation to me.
Using their comparison to brisk walking as a comparable calorie burn, it seems the total they reported was gross based on the formula presented for net walking burn in Runner's World. A 150 pound person would net 236 calories walking 3.5 miles per hour for 90 minutes according to their formula. That leaves just over 90 calories for RMR ... or an approximately 1500 calorie daily RMR if the reported number in the story is in fact gross calories burned. Until I can look through the actual study findings, that is all speculative.
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Not many.
Can someone explain the point of hot yoga to me? Sweating does not equal burning more calories. It's just your body trying to cool itself down. If I'm lying by the pool on a hot South Carolina day, sweating like a pig, I'm not burning more calories than I would be lying on my bed in the dead of winter.
I hope the "point" doesn't involve any nonsense about sweating out toxins or something.0 -
brianpperkins wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/7359
Female participants averaged 330 calories for 90 minutes according to the press release. I haven't looked into the actual study findings to see if that is gross or net calories burned.
That's ~3.6 cals per minute. Seems like a reasonable approximation to me.
Using their comparison to brisk walking as a comparable calorie burn, it seems the total they reported was gross based on the formula presented for net walking burn in Runner's World. A 150 pound person would net 236 calories walking 3.5 miles per hour for 90 minutes according to their formula. That leaves just over 90 calories for RMR ... or an approximately 1500 calorie daily RMR if the reported number in the story is in fact gross calories burned. Until I can look through the actual study findings, that is all speculative.
For us trying to log our calorie burns, it's all speculative anyway.0 -
IamUndrCnstruction wrote: »The benefits of yoga are not meant to be the calorie burn.....and I don't think hot yoga would increase it anyway, you just lose a little water weight maybe, and it makes it easier to get the good stretch, but more calories burned? Probably not.
Yoga makes my muscles feel so warm and relaxed - I absolutely love it! As you get older, it gets even more important to incorporate stretching/flexibility exercises into your routine. AND, it has been key in helping me overcome my runner's knee.0 -
While not meant as a fat burning exercise. The benefits are good. Depends on heart rate. Its all heart rate. Which "brand" of yoga will dictate heart rate as well. I start every morning with DDP yoga. In 20-50 minutes I will burn alot more calories than a hour at the Y. Its hate rate, if you want a true measure get a heart rate monitor.0
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LyndseyLovesToLift wrote: »Not many.
Can someone explain the point of hot yoga to me? Sweating does not equal burning more calories. It's just your body trying to cool itself down. If I'm lying by the pool on a hot South Carolina day, sweating like a pig, I'm not burning more calories than I would be lying on my bed in the dead of winter.
I hope the "point" doesn't involve any nonsense about sweating out toxins or something.
To my knowledge, its to help you deepen the poses.
Which is why I've read somewhere that those new to yoga shouldn't start with hot yoga since they can overstretch and end up hurting themselves.
I know personally, I can go deeper into the stretches when I go to the hot yoga studio in town rather than do it in my 60F living room lol
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Papatoad194 wrote: »While not meant as a fat burning exercise. The benefits are good. Depends on heart rate. Its all heart rate. Which "brand" of yoga will dictate heart rate as well. I start every morning with DDP yoga. In 20-50 minutes I will burn alot more calories than a hour at the Y. Its hate rate, if you want a true measure get a heart rate monitor.
Ummmm ... no. There is no direct relationship between HR and caloric burn for yoga. Thankfully, universities actually do the science that disproves your comment.0 -
brianpperkins wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/7359
Female participants averaged 330 calories for 90 minutes according to the press release. I haven't looked into the actual study findings to see if that is gross or net calories burned.
That's ~3.6 cals per minute. Seems like a reasonable approximation to me.
Using their comparison to brisk walking as a comparable calorie burn, it seems the total they reported was gross based on the formula presented for net walking burn in Runner's World. A 150 pound person would net 236 calories walking 3.5 miles per hour for 90 minutes according to their formula. That leaves just over 90 calories for RMR ... or an approximately 1500 calorie daily RMR if the reported number in the story is in fact gross calories burned. Until I can look through the actual study findings, that is all speculative.
For us trying to log our calorie burns, it's all speculative anyway.
It really depends on the activity. Some activities have established relationships to caloric burn (either time/distance/weight relationships and/or established correlations between HR and caloric burn) ... others don't.0 -
f you go to a gym, the average yoga class will last around 45 minutes. To burn at least 800 calories during that class, it would need to be as strenuous as running at 6.7 miles per hour during the entire class. If you’ve been in a yoga class before, I doubt that you’ve left feeling the same cardiovascular fatigue as you’d feel if you had been charging down a treadmill the entire time--and considering that much of your time in that class is spent sitting and breathing, holding still without moving a muscle, or lying on your back and breathing, there is literally zero chance that you’re burning the unbelievable 1000 calories per hour that some yoga enthusiasts claim yoga actually burns.0
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I don't count my yoga time as calorie burn. It gives me other things including flexibility and core strength. Which has come in handy lately as I'm building up for a 10K run.0
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Really depends on your intensity. But it's still not much. I'd look at it as more of a strength training type and consider the calories burned negligible. Benefits are outside of calories burned.0
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brianpperkins wrote: »http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/7359
Female participants averaged 330 calories for 90 minutes according to the press release. I haven't looked into the actual study findings to see if that is gross or net calories burned.
Which is probably close to what you'd be burning if you were just cooking or something, lol.0 -
I don't log my yoga usually. I do it twice a day, and I just don't feel like the burns are worth logging - but that's a personal choice.
I do take a Vinyasa class sometimes. It's constant movement - more like dancing than traditional yoga (you don't hold any pose, you move from one to the other with no breaks to fast paced music). Anyway, I log that at 200 calories for an hour.0 -
LyndseyLovesToLift wrote: »Not many.
Can someone explain the point of hot yoga to me? Sweating does not equal burning more calories. It's just your body trying to cool itself down. If I'm lying by the pool on a hot South Carolina day, sweating like a pig, I'm not burning more calories than I would be lying on my bed in the dead of winter.
I hope the "point" doesn't involve any nonsense about sweating out toxins or something.
It is supposed to loosen your muscles up so that the poses are easier/more effective.
I personally love regular yoga but despise sweating so don't plan to try it in the near future unless I feel like being miserable/dehydrated for s**ts and giggles.0 -
It depends on SO many things. What kind of yoga, how strong you are, etc. The best way to find out would be to wear a heart rate monitor.0
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lishie_rebooted wrote: »LyndseyLovesToLift wrote: »Not many.
Can someone explain the point of hot yoga to me? Sweating does not equal burning more calories. It's just your body trying to cool itself down. If I'm lying by the pool on a hot South Carolina day, sweating like a pig, I'm not burning more calories than I would be lying on my bed in the dead of winter.
I hope the "point" doesn't involve any nonsense about sweating out toxins or something.
To my knowledge, its to help you deepen the poses.
Which is why I've read somewhere that those new to yoga shouldn't start with hot yoga since they can overstretch and end up hurting themselves.
I know personally, I can go deeper into the stretches when I go to the hot yoga studio in town rather than do it in my 60F living room lol
Yep i think that's correct. although oftentimes they claim that you are "sweating out toxins", which always gets a deep eye roll out of me.
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squirrelzzrule22 wrote: »It depends on SO many things. What kind of yoga, how strong you are, etc. The best way to find out would be to wear a heart rate monitor.
A HRM wouldn't be even remotely accurate for something such as yoga. They are designed for steady state cardio.
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michellemybelll wrote: »lishie_rebooted wrote: »LyndseyLovesToLift wrote: »Not many.
Can someone explain the point of hot yoga to me? Sweating does not equal burning more calories. It's just your body trying to cool itself down. If I'm lying by the pool on a hot South Carolina day, sweating like a pig, I'm not burning more calories than I would be lying on my bed in the dead of winter.
I hope the "point" doesn't involve any nonsense about sweating out toxins or something.
To my knowledge, its to help you deepen the poses.
Which is why I've read somewhere that those new to yoga shouldn't start with hot yoga since they can overstretch and end up hurting themselves.
I know personally, I can go deeper into the stretches when I go to the hot yoga studio in town rather than do it in my 60F living room lol
Yep i think that's correct. although oftentimes they claim that you are "sweating out toxins", which always gets a deep eye roll out of me.
Ha! Yep. Anytime anything gets mentioned about "toxins" in yoga class, I roll my eyes. Absolutely love yoga, but have to tolerate/ignore a lot of the pseudoscience, homeopathy, etc. that it seems to be paired with frequently.0
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