Sauna as exercise

Krisstastic_ wrote: »

if your heart rate goes up in the sauna, you should probably leave and go to the dr.

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This.

Krisstastic_ wrote: »

LOL they will add it after they add sitting on the couch watching tv

The Compendium of Activities that Metabolic Equivalents are taken from does actually include sitting, it also has a category for religious activities, sitting in church which apparently has a slightly higher MET than just sitting, which does strike me as bizarre.

It does NOT count as exercise, but it will help in reducing water weight from water retention due to the sweating.

So you MAY see some weight loss due to dehydration.

suediebee wrote: »

Well I'm sweating that has to count for something.

This is water weight, which you gain back after rehydrating yourself by drinking water (or beverage of choice). If this "timing" helps you for a weigh-in....then I guess it's something. But being dehydrated won't be a permanent state.

I ate some spicy ramen yesterday that made me sweat. That doesn't mean it was exercise.

thorsmom01 wrote: »

Just because you are sweating doesn't mean its exercise.
I've saw people here log pushing a grocery cart, sex, walking to the mailbox as exercise. This is just another one of those things.
If you burn a few extra calories by sitting in a sauna then consider it a bonus but that's about it.
If you want something, you'll have to work for it.

Best answer.

But isn't working for something maybe hard?

Larissa_NY wrote: »

Come on, now. No reasonable person can actually think that sitting in the sauna counts as exercise. Or that there's anything "tough" about literally sitting on a bench and not moving.

Here's a good rule of thumb: if you have to ask "Does this count as exercise?" then it's not exercise and you know it. You're just asking people to enable you in your quest to eat more. I have to give you credit, though - attempting to get people to agree with you that sitting in a sauna is a tough workout is one of the more ambitious goals I've seen in posts like this.

Burned more Calories typing OP than lying in the sauna.

You people are doing it wrong. You don't just sit in a sauna. You beat yourself senseless with a birch broom, vigorously throw buckets of water unto the rocks to drive your neighbors out, and cry shivering in fetal position once they leave. I have not even touched the subject of curls with bottles of beer, or the inevitable fisticuffs that follow a successful sauna.

Seriously though, do it long enough and your metabolism is in overdrive. Count an Oreo for every half an hour at least.

This from a person that doesn't need to to use a loan word to say sauna.

A qualified yes

Im going to have to add that if your heart rate doesn't go up, you're in a warm room, not a sauna. I'm curious as to what constitutes a sauna in non-Russo-Scandinavian gyms.