Hot Yoga?

sweetsriracha23
sweetsriracha23 Posts: 14 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Anyone else here doing hot yoga? If so, how do you track your calories burned?

I know claims of burning 1,100-1,600 calories in a Bikram class have largely been debunked. However, I'm pretty dubious that an hour spent balancing on my arms and moving through an aggressive vinyasa flow burns the same amount of calories as walking moderately, which is what MFP's exercise calculator says :/

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  • firststepformefal
    firststepformefal Posts: 180 Member
    I do hot yoga. I just got into it seriously in October. I track it on Map My Fitness. It gives me a burn of around 2200 for the 90 minute class. I doubt I am burning that. I do not eat back my calories, so I eat about 1200 calories a day.
  • bluefish86
    bluefish86 Posts: 842 Member
    There are no Vinyasas in Bikram Yoga, so unless you're doing a hot power class, you'll likely be burning less.

    Honestly, as with any exercise the best you're going to get is an estimate. Start by eating back 50-75% of whatever you think you've burned and track your weight for a few weeks to see if that number needs tweaking.
  • erimethia_fekre
    erimethia_fekre Posts: 317 Member
    ^Agreed^

    I never track burned calories. I eat a higher amount of calories regardless so it all balances out
  • Noreenmarie1234
    Noreenmarie1234 Posts: 7,492 Member
    I do bikram and count it as 200 burned
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  • sweetsriracha23
    sweetsriracha23 Posts: 14 Member
    bluefish86 wrote: »
    There are no Vinyasas in Bikram Yoga, so unless you're doing a hot power class, you'll likely be burning less.

    Honestly, as with any exercise the best you're going to get is an estimate. Start by eating back 50-75% of whatever you think you've burned and track your weight for a few weeks to see if that number needs tweaking.

    Yup, sorry for the inaccurate language. I do hot power yoga at a hot studio that's not affiliated with Bikram.

    and ultimately, y'all are right. Experiment and track. For now, I'm typically trying to not eat back my activity calories, so we'll see where this lands me.
  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    Colorado State University did the research. Hot yoga has a comparable caloric burn to walking.
  • noirprncess
    noirprncess Posts: 8 Member
    I've been tracking my burns with each class using a heart rate monitor. It really depends on the type of movement but I burn between 275-500 cals with each class. That's me taking brief pauses from time to time. With practice positive I can get this into the 500-600 cal range.

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