Do you think hot yoga really burns 300 calories in an hour?

[Anonymous]

As much as i don't think Bikram yoga is for everyone, I have to admit my sister's 50-year old boyfriend lost 60 pounds over the course of a year doing it. He went 6-7 times a week. He even got some type of "award" for going to the most number of classes at the studio in one year. He really loved those classes.

He has kept the weight off for 10 years now and has added jogging to his health routine, which he could not do while carrying 60 extra pounds.

I liked Bikram yoga for the 1x per week i did it for one year, but then menopause and awful hot flashes began and I had my own internal heat. I would have run from that 105+ degree room screaming at that point.

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Anonymous wrote:That's what MyFitnessPal tells me. But it doesn't seem that challenging, just hot. Or does it depend on what type of hot yoga? I can imagine the yoga with weights class at CorePower is more intense that just its regular class.

Nope. No way. You get hot running and it only burns about 100 calories a mile. So unless you are 300+ lbs - no way.

Yeah but running is easily 600calories/hour if you run at an easy pace of 10 minute mile.
It makes sense that hot yoga would be 300 calories/hour - so half as much as jogging.

Lol what

[Anonymous]

I don't think so. I've seen 150 as the approximate number of calories burned in an hour of power yoga, and I'd probably use that as a better figure. (I'm about 150 lbs.)

[Anonymous]

Believe it or not, passive heating does have a calorie-consuming effect (not a huge one, but an effect): https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/soaking-in-a-hot-bath-yields-benefits-similar-to-exercise?utm_source=dsctwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dsctwitter

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Anonymous wrote:Probably not, unless it’s a really vigorous vinyasa flow, i.e., it’s getting your heart rate up.

I also don’t think 300 calories in an hour is very much.

Especially given that you would burn around 80-100 cal an hour if you did absolutely nothing (BMR). So you are really only burning an additional 200 for an hour of yoga.

For smaller people, ... no way I'm I buring 100 calories an hour doing nothing. That would mean I could eat 2400 calories a day and just lie on the couch. At 5'1" I'm going to say that's a hard NO. And even the FDA recommends what, a 2000 calorie a day diet? for a #150 person? No.

[Anonymous]

Each option is right somehow. In yoga, we don't have a concrete thing that we can obtain thanks to it. Here is different. Each body receives the energy differently and the impact of meditation is also different. I guess that you can read here yogapractice.com some more information about the energy that we receive through om symbols and yoga. I started to introduce it in my daily life and the only thing that I cannot understand is why I haven't started it earlier. Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:That's what MyFitnessPal tells me. But it doesn't seem that challenging, just hot. Or does it depend on what type of hot yoga? I can imagine the yoga with weights class at CorePower is more intense that just its regular class.

Nope. No way. You get hot running and it only burns about 100 calories a mile. So unless you are 300+ lbs - no way.

Yeah but running is easily 600calories/hour if you run at an easy pace of 10 minute mile.
It makes sense that hot yoga would be 300 calories/hour - so half as much as jogging.

Lol what

Are you laughing at the statement that you would burn 600 calories running for an hour at 10 minute mile pace? Or that a 10 minute mile is an easy pace?

[Anonymous]

Of course. That’s equivalent burn as walking one hour.

[Anonymous]

OP, you need to wear a heart rate monitor while exercising that is calibrated to your gender, weight, and age in order to get any type of accurate calorie count.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's what MyFitnessPal tells me. But it doesn't seem that challenging, just hot. Or does it depend on what type of hot yoga? I can imagine the yoga with weights class at CorePower is more intense that just its regular class.

Nope. No way. You get hot running and it only burns about 100 calories a mile. So unless you are 300+ lbs - no way.

Yeah but running is easily 600calories/hour if you run at an easy pace of 10 minute mile.
It makes sense that hot yoga would be 300 calories/hour - so half as much as jogging.

Lol what

+1

I ran 6 mi this morning, 9:50 pace. According to my Apple Watch, 489 calories burned. Took me 59 min. So I don’t think it “easily” burns 600/cal an hour.

[Anonymous]

Hi OP! I teach hot yoga. Our flow classes are at about 105. Our Sequence (what some would call Bikram style, but no knowledgeable person would support a Bikram studio) are at about 115. It’s infrared heat with humidity carefully controlled.

To answer your questions, the number of calories burned depends entirely on the class. You aren’t going to burn many calories in a restorative class. You’ll burn a ton in power yoga or HIIT yoga. The heat feels really good to a lot of people. It has helped a ton with my arthritis. My flexibility is much better in a hot yoga class. And I love to sweat. But sweat isn’t burning a lot of calories. You’re losing water weight, which hopefully you are quickly replacing.