What would you mark for dry sauna?
charlihess
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I was using a dry sauna today for about 20 minutes and I was looking to add it in my exercise log but there is nothing that I can log it under. What do I do here hmmm?
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Did you actually exercise in there, or were you just sitting? Unless you are moving, I wouldn't count it. It can have other benefits, but I don't think calorie burning is one of them.8
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Im pretty sure its because your just sitting there sweating not raising your heart beat. And as soon as you drink water you will just be replenishing what you sweat out2
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http://www.livestrong.com/article/298021-how-many-calories-does-sitting-in-a-dry-sauna-burn/
Sitting in a dry sauna will burn little to no calories. Saunas cause weight loss through sweating. This type of weight loss does not affect fat tissue.3 -
Yes, a sauna is not exercise. If it were, I'd lose weight every day for teaching in my classroom without air conditioning.10
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Wow ! Thanks everyone. 0
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I respectfully disagree. Though I would not put it as an exercise, you would burn more calories as your body would be working to cool itself. Moreso on the other end of the spectrum, if you were freezing, the shivering would burn many more calories. Any time your body is in a stress state it will utilize more energy to stabilize itself. A workout? Maybe if you push it to the point of dying, but not so much for what you are using it for.
In the short term, you will lose water weight that you will need to replenish. However, it will not equate to fat burning when used alone.15 -
I wouldn't log it! If only exercise were as easy as sitting in a sauna!3
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Make sure you shower right after the dry heat sauna, or your body will reabsorbe this icky toxins!18
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XanderWiFi wrote: »I respectfully disagree. Though I would not put it as an exercise, you would burn more calories as your body would be working to cool itself. Moreso on the other end of the spectrum, if you were freezing, the shivering would burn many more calories. Any time your body is in a stress state it will utilize more energy to stabilize itself. A workout? Maybe if you push it to the point of dying, but not so much for what you are using it for.
In the short term, you will lose water weight that you will need to replenish. However, it will not equate to fat burning when used alone.
Thermodynamics would disagree with you here. Your body is attempting to shed heat. Not generate it. Burning calories generates heat. Sweating is the opposite.
Sitting in a sauna would *technically* slightly reduce your metabolism for the time you are in there since your body doesn't need to generate its own heat.
Maybe sitting in a sauna should be logged in as positive calories in that sense.12 -
erinannie0501 wrote: »Make sure you shower right after the dry heat sauna, or your body will reabsorbe this icky toxins!
There are no "toxins" in your sweat that come out. Only water and salt.
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XanderWiFi wrote: »I respectfully disagree. Though I would not put it as an exercise, you would burn more calories as your body would be working to cool itself. Moreso on the other end of the spectrum, if you were freezing, the shivering would burn many more calories. Any time your body is in a stress state it will utilize more energy to stabilize itself. A workout? Maybe if you push it to the point of dying, but not so much for what you are using it for.
In the short term, you will lose water weight that you will need to replenish. However, it will not equate to fat burning when used alone.
Thermodynamics would disagree with you here. Your body is attempting to shed heat. Not generate it. Burning calories generates heat. Sweating is the opposite.
Sitting in a sauna would *technically* slightly reduce your metabolism for the time you are in there since your body doesn't need to generate its own heat.
Maybe sitting in a sauna should be logged in as positive calories in that sense.
Here's a fistbump for science.9 -
erinannie0501 wrote: »Make sure you shower right after the dry heat sauna, or your body will reabsorbe this icky toxins!
Icky toxinz!!2 -
Except sitting in a sauna is work for your cardiovascular system... heart rate up as much as a brisk walk, blood vessels constrict and dilate to regulate temperature... wondering if anyone logs their time, or considers these to be unlogged "bonus" calories?9
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redperphexion wrote: »Except sitting in a sauna is work for your cardiovascular system... heart rate up as much as a brisk walk, blood vessels constrict and dilate to regulate temperature... wondering if anyone logs their time, or considers these to be unlogged "bonus" calories?
did you seriously resurrect a thread from 2011 to tell us that you should count sauna as "exercise".
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Fitness Blender gives a 185 pound man 63-84 calories for 30 minutes........but he would have burned 42 by sitting around doing nothing (activity level).
https://www.fitnessblender.com/blog/can-you-lose-weight-in-a-sauna-calories-burned-in-sauna0 -
You don't. You might burn a few extra calories in a sauna, but not enough to be significant, or count as exercise.
Heck, come to think of it, the sauna might actually slow your metabolism, as your body no longer has to work to heat itself.
Also, all this talk of a dry sauna "getting rid of toxins"... wow, seriously? No. Your liver gets rid of toxins. Dry saunas and juice cleanses do not get rid of toxins. Please do not believe this useless, harmful crap. Just continue to eat as well as you are able, and get an ample amount of exercise. Don't go looking for miracle shortcuts to health, such as dry saunas.2 -
Fitness Blender gives a 185 pound man 42 calories for 30 minutes........
https://www.fitnessblender.com/blog/can-you-lose-weight-in-a-sauna-calories-burned-in-sauna
WOW!!! those 42 calories are definitely make all the difference. You can eat like a whole carrot... oh wait, carrots take more energy to digest than are in them....5 -
XanderWiFi wrote: »I respectfully disagree. Though I would not put it as an exercise, you would burn more calories as your body would be working to cool itself. Moreso on the other end of the spectrum, if you were freezing, the shivering would burn many more calories. Any time your body is in a stress state it will utilize more energy to stabilize itself. A workout? Maybe if you push it to the point of dying, but not so much for what you are using it for.
In the short term, you will lose water weight that you will need to replenish. However, it will not equate to fat burning when used alone.
Thermodynamics would disagree with you here. Your body is attempting to shed heat. Not generate it. Burning calories generates heat. Sweating is the opposite.
Sitting in a sauna would *technically* slightly reduce your metabolism for the time you are in there since your body doesn't need to generate its own heat.
Maybe sitting in a sauna should be logged in as positive calories in that sense.
Because SCIENCE!0 -
https://www.wellnessgeeky.com/how-many-calories-do-you-burn-in-a-sauna/
This article argues that you burn 1.5 times your sitting rate of calorie burn. For example if you burn 20 calories just sitting, you may burn 30 in the sauna. Granted, unless you're in there for hours, it's not going to revolutionize your weight loss journey, and as people have said, weight loss noticed that day or the next will likely be completely water weight. HOWEVER. The fun part about keeping a log is logging EVERYTHING, so why not log everything!7 -
XanderWiFi wrote: »I respectfully disagree. Though I would not put it as an exercise, you would burn more calories as your body would be working to cool itself. Moreso on the other end of the spectrum, if you were freezing, the shivering would burn many more calories. Any time your body is in a stress state it will utilize more energy to stabilize itself. A workout? Maybe if you push it to the point of dying, but not so much for what you are using it for.
In the short term, you will lose water weight that you will need to replenish. However, it will not equate to fat burning when used alone.
Not compared to exercise. Slightly more calories would be more appropriate , certainly not enough that would could suggest as exercise.1 -
https://www.wellnessgeeky.com/how-many-calories-do-you-burn-in-a-sauna/
This article argues that you burn 1.5 times your sitting rate of calorie burn. For example if you burn 20 calories just sitting, you may burn 30 in the sauna. Granted, unless you're in there for hours, it's not going to revolutionize your weight loss journey, and as people have said, weight loss noticed that day or the next will likely be completely water weight. HOWEVER. The fun part about keeping a log is logging EVERYTHING, so why not log everything!
ZOMBIE THREAD
Okay, but be sure to net out the 20 calories you all ready got credit for in your activity level. Because even sedentary people sit.
Also note that EVERYTHING is an estimate. Your activity level is a "range" but My Fitness Pal uses just one number. The food you log, let's just say I hope you are weighing everything (bread slices, package foods, every taste, every bite, every lick) using a digital food scale.
There are so many estimates, wrong food entries, etc; I predict it's not going to be fun, it's going to be frustrating.
The water weight isn't going to take days to come back.0 -
https://www.wellnessgeeky.com/how-many-calories-do-you-burn-in-a-sauna/
This article argues that you burn 1.5 times your sitting rate of calorie burn. For example if you burn 20 calories just sitting, you may burn 30 in the sauna. Granted, unless you're in there for hours, it's not going to revolutionize your weight loss journey, and as people have said, weight loss noticed that day or the next will likely be completely water weight. HOWEVER. The fun part about keeping a log is logging EVERYTHING, so why not log everything!
Same as knitting, a real calorie burner. Hooyay0 -
I spent the whole day in a fairly warm train today, from about 10:00 to 19:00. I'm sure I burned masses of calories. Ok, I also somehow managed to get about 12000 steps in from walking through stations, and cycled for 40 minutes to the station and back but I'm sure this pales compared to all the sitting and reading in the hot trains. 1
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I'm a bit tired thinking of turning the heat up and taking a nap to get a good calorie burn.
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Nope.
(1) Zombie thread from 2011.
(2) A zillion things raise heart rate, without burning extra calories (heat, dehydration, high emotion, physical strain (Valsava), more). Sauna is one.
Feels good. Might help recovery (low probability?). Worth doing, though.
Best estimate: Zero calories. Zero.
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Wow a double zombie thread resurected in 2016 from 2011 and now here it is again. we are on a roll here.
No calories burned in sauna just water weight lost through sweat.
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Ahem...
https://youtu.be/aHOlM-wlNjM
There are many benefits to sauna use, but the amount of extra calories burned is probably negligible in the long run.
You don’t really step into a sauna to burn calories, but for the other things it can do.0
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