Yoga as exercise
AmitSadh
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I do yoga (Hatha) everyday. How can I log it in to determine the calories burnt by it?
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There is an option for yoga - it's in the Cardio section of the exercise page0
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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.cgi0 -
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.0
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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.3
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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....0 -
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?
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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 different1
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