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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it wasn't true, then why do people do hot yoga?  What's the appeal of it?  [/quote]

Hot yoga is not for weight loss. Some people might use it that way but that's not why it exists. Hot yoga helps you feel more limber and there is some argument that a hot room for yoga will decrease your chance of injury or pulling a muscle, because your joints are warmer.

My personal experience is that this is true (I am someone with tight muscles generally and benefit a lot from warming up muscles and joints before yoga), though the dehydration of true hot yoga can counteract the benefits of increasing flexibility. I've found the ideal situation is either to do some cardio and practical movement beforehand that gets the body warm, or to attend classes where the instructor really knows how to build up to the deeper, longer poses and holds, and knows how to build heat in the body and in specific joints before getting to that point. It's better for your body generate it's own heat anyway.

In any case, any weight you lose due to sweating at hot yoga will just come back when you replenish the water you've lost.[/quote]

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