Yoga as exercise

AmitSadh
AmitSadh Posts: 1 Member
edited August 2016 in Fitness and Exercise
I do yoga (Hatha) everyday. How can I log it in to determine the calories burnt by it?

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  • Keylimedreamer
    Keylimedreamer Posts: 6 Member
    There is an option for yoga - it's in the Cardio section of the exercise page
  • Keylimedreamer
    Keylimedreamer Posts: 6 Member
    This site is quite useful for getting an estimate of how many cals burned, given your sex, age, weight and height
    https://www.healthstatus.com/perl/calculator.cgi
  • robininfl
    robininfl Posts: 1,137 Member
    Hatha yoga would not burn many calories, isn't that the yoga where you just sit and hold different positions in stillness? Moving around is what burns calories.
  • MiriamBlissful
    MiriamBlissful Posts: 3 Member
    Actually yoga is both cardio and strength training, and the types of classes out there very between difficulty. Holding poses is a lot harder than it looks and does infact burn calories in the same way you would hold a plank pose.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    AmitSadh wrote: »
    I do yoga (Hatha) everyday. How can I log it in to determine the calories burnt by it?

    Go to where you log your exercise - click on cardio - search for yoga - select " Stretching, hatha yoga" - log the time you did the yoga

  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    edited August 2016
    robininfl wrote: »
    Hatha yoga would not burn many calories, isn't that the yoga where you just sit and hold different positions in stillness? Moving around is what burns calories.

    depends on the yoga you do

    vinyasa burns more calories than hatha which burns more calories than yin
    and then their is aerial yoga....
  • robininfl
    robininfl Posts: 1,137 Member
    mbaker566 wrote: »
    robininfl wrote: »
    Hatha yoga would not burn many calories, isn't that the yoga where you just sit and hold different positions in stillness? Moving around is what burns calories.

    depends on the yoga you do

    vinyasa burns more calories than hatha which burns more calories than yin
    and then their is aerial yoga....

    Yes, I do "power" and vinyasa classes and it's like adagio dance, sort of. We use strength to move through series of positions and movements. Push ups, planks, lunges, arm balances, some positions may be held for awhile but there is a lot of moving around in between. Flow classes. Hatha yoga isn't like that, though, right?
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    It's more about form but you still move. yin is more holding. traditionally and certainly with exception, hatha you hold the pose for three breaths in hatha, five in yin.
    power can be vinyasa or something independent.
    hot yoga does not burn extra calories, bikram burns less then vinyasa

    of course, this is all generalizations and each class, student and teacher is different

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