Calories burned doing hot yoga?

In my activity log, i just entered hatha yoga which only burns about 140 calories an hour. I'd think that hot yoga is a lot more strenuous though. Does anybody have an idea as to how many calories i would burn doing 90 minutes of hot yoga?

i'm 16 y/o female, 5'6, small frame and about 124lbs

Hey!

So I don't know about those calorie count sites at all, I'd rahter go the old fashioned way and check it yourself, it's better to know your day to day specifics anyways.

I take Bikrahm too, and while I do think it's a great way to burn some calories and to help with posture and joints, I don't believe it burns 1432 calories for me like those sites say. I'm 210 and our classes go for 90 mins. I mean I'd Love it if it were true, but I have to be realistic, the quote of 300-600 seems sensible.

There are some very very VERY strong women in my class that push the 26 poses to positions that seem gravity defying, and in those cases they may burn more calories. But I believe the class is, like it has been said before, really built to help with posture, breathing, your heart, your digestion and lengthening muscles.

Candice

I'm just getting back into regular exercise and I've been going to the gym and playing tennis. (5' 7" 148 lbs - was 124 lbs in Uni so want to lose a few!)...I'm not very flexible (weights and tennis make it worse) and not very good at yoga at all - I've been taking hot yoga and hot pilates and I love it - I can get much further into all the poses than I can in a regular yoga class so I definitely can see how it would burn more calories.

i was just wondering i f the people who think burning over 500 calories in 90 mins of hot yoga is crazy, have ever done it?  i know doing yoga doesn't sound hard or like it could burn many calories but it clearly does. I am doing a 30 day challenge and already 7 days later i can button jeans that i haven't buttoned in years. i have not changed my diet at all.

I just started and I am 100% positive my heart rate is up over 160 for atleast 70 mins of that class. I am 180lbs and 5'8. I would compare the 90 min class to being as challenging as any step aerobics, or weight class i have taken where i burn about 500 calories (Wear my body bugg). My girlfriend wore her heart monitor the other day in class and burned 800 calories in 75 minute hot powe vinyasa yoga. she is about 130 lbs and 5'7. 

The average person Burns around 947 calories in each 90 minute Bikram Yoga session, ofcourse it will vary a bit depending on your weight and sex.  I dont know what you mean when you say sweating only makes you feel like youre working harder when in fact sweating itself burns calories.  Sitting in a sauna and sweating for 30 minutes will burn as many calories as rowing for the same amount of time.   Not only that but when your muscles are warm your body burns fat better.  I love Bikram yoga, love love love it, Its the most intense work out Ive ever had, you work every muscle in your body, not only that but you stretch and massage your internal organs.  It improves your breathing, flexibility and strength and by sweating you are detoxifying your body, ridding it of all its impurities.  Bikram yoga is by far the hardest yoga you can do but it is worth it!  I feel absolutly great after I work out (minus the sore muscles) and I recommend it to anyone who wants to not only get into shape but change their life. 

Melkor, 

It seems like you have a personal vendetta against hot yoga. I would advise that you leave it alone as people who are losing weight or have lost weight doing hot yoga are doing JUST FINE, without your negativity. keep it to yourself. 

Do you really need to bump a month-old thread to chastise a poster who hasn't logged in since April?

Original Post by melcorisstupid:

Melkor, 

It seems like you have a personal vendetta against hot yoga. I would advise that you leave it alone as people who are losing weight or have lost weight doing hot yoga are doing JUST FINE, without your negativity. keep it to yourself. 

That was very negative of you.

The **** to fact ratio in this thread is one of the highest I've ever seen. 

Original Post by azdak:

The **** to fact ratio in this thread is one of the highest I've ever seen. 

 That's saying something

BIKRAM and HOT YOGA
Bikram Yoga is ideally practiced in a room heated to 105°F (40.5°C) with a humidity of 40%. Classes include 26 postures, guided by specific dialogue and breathing techniques.

Calories burned in Bikram or Hot Yoga: 300 to 630 per hour
Same as: jogging for one hour

if you're a beginner, you'll probably be getting around 300 cal per hour, hitting the mat to catch your breath a bunch of times, after a while you'll be able to do the full first sequences (plank, upward dog, downward dog, half moon, twisting half moon, downward dog, forward fold, thunderbolt, forward fold and back through the sequences again, without hitting the mat. After that point, you'll notice hot hardcore your heart rate is and you'll see that this really is a cardio workout inspite of the name 'yoga' fluffying up this idea of ladies in tights doing light streches - this is a serious workout and the heat only helps to push your body to the edge, where you will break through, or break down.

After 12 months of going 4 or more times a week, you will reach a point where you don't have to hit the mat at all, and the end of the 90 minutes comes way too soon, at that point you are probably burning 1000 cal per hours, or more, because the poses are more extreme, and the strength you are building is just unbelievable.

scrub

A Yogi would be better for giving you help on this subject,

For myself, I started Hot Power Yoga (Bikrum) when I had a very bad chest infection after years of smoking and asthma, after I'd been doing it for several months (quitting smoking a few weeks before starting) I found I was no longer up all night coughing, and have stopped coughing completely. During the first classes of Bikrum I thought I would cough madly and be really embarrassed, but I was suprised that the breating techniques that are taught really helped me find a calm breath during the class, and the heat meant that after the class, when i coughed again, I basically emptied my lungs of all the filth that had built up there (yuk I know, but it was soooooo good to be free of that crap)

One of my Yogi's hada car accident a few years ago, and found Yoga after many different methods of recovery failed for her -

the best advice you can get is this - Find out what kinds of yoga classes there are in your area, give them a ring or flick them an email, tell them about your injuries and they will give you their recommendations.

Yoga is designed to be open, meaning it can be softened or intensified to your own needs and degree every class. One of the things in Bikrum that you learn and relearn every lesson, is if you feel like the intensity of the flow class (cardio section, flowing between positions) or the intensity of any single position too much, you can 'hit the mat', meaning you return to a begining position and rest until you feel like you can rejoin, it's nt uncommon for people to 'hit tyhe mat' 10 times in a class. Even the really advanced students hit the mat at least once every lesson :)

There is a distinction between "Hot Power Yoga" which is usually heated Vinyasa, and Bikram which uses entirely different poses. No down dog, up dog or plank.

That said, I find them both vigorous and burn significant calories is practitioners commit to poses and push themselves.

I assume that the calorie counters people mention are using a calculation that has each person doing each pose in the extreme, which is usually not the case for beginners.

As others have said, let your own heart rate be your guide.

I disagree with the statement that you should not practice Yoga for weight loss.  Yoga strengthens your Core which will lead to overall body strength.  Don't forget that muscle burns fat.  Building the muscle around your Core will burn the FAT around your Core. 

Should it be used alone for weightloss?  No.  Weightloss involves a combination of many things and Yoga can be just one piece of the puzzle.  It is very powerful for your Core.  Don't underestimate the value of it.

Personally, I practice Yoga in combination with cardio and strength training.  Monday I do Yoga.  Tuesday I either take the day off or do standard cardio.  Wednesday I do a class called Total Body Training which involves intervals of high impact cardio and strength training with medium to heavy weights.  Thursday I do another class which is intervals of high impact cardio and strength training with light weights.  Friday I do a class which is nothing but modular strength training with medium to heavy weights.

I have a polar watch which I used during a 60 minute hot yoga class. I burned 313 Calories. This is based on my weight, height and fitness level. I usually burn less than most people as I have a low heart rate, and am pretty fit.

I teach yoga. Hot yoga burns upwards of 600 calories per 90 minute class.

Weight loss from yoga practice come more from the mental balance and ability to discriminate what the body needs/doesn't need, more than calories burned. Yoga trains the body to give us access to the mind. So when you look at the donut or the chocolate cake-you don't want it anymore. It no longer holds the same appeal becasue you realize that that donut is not going to make up for the frustrations in your life. You also gain mental clarity in order to follow through with commitment. So after a bad day at work, instead of sitting on the couch eating ice cream, you go out for a walk or do a yoga class.

The physical benefits are not to be compared with weight training. Done poperly, yoga teaches the body to discriminate balance, strengthen minor joint stabilization muscles, judge left vs, right.

BKS Iyengar and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras are highly recommended reading. Good luck. Namaste.

I was a big yoga fan, for over 15 years when I decided to try Bikram. What a BAD mistake. It is a joke, McDonald's Yoga is right!

I finished their 'challenge' doing 50 sessions in a row (every day) and instead of feeling better and looking better, I was becoming a shadow and plainly sick. I ended up in a hospital. Nice Dr. who also once upon the time went to bikram said that the health risks are so great that he wonders why that yoga is even legal. He said that even sitting in a sauna will burn 800 calories but the fact of the exercise is to make muscles work, not trying to win against the heat. Also he said that people somehow suspend the common knowledge NOT TO GO OUT IN A HEAT. So be it, if you wish to kill yourself be my guest. The only muscle you will work is heart and it will work too hard and hate you for it. The calories 'lost' will get replenished as soon as you consume 3 glasses of water. And the benefits of the exercises - none. Yoga is a strech, and bikram is a disaster.

If you want to lose weight watch your diet, do cardio in a healthy way, which means to sweat in a normal temperature. Hiking, cycling, speed walking, low impact aerobics, rebounder. If you really wish to do yoga do Ashtanga or Vinyasa, both 100000000000000000000 superior to that freak Bikram. Yeah, the guy is a complete sociopath and if you want to be sheeple go ahead, it will be more room on this planet after you crock.

And yeah, I really now shy away from yoga being though this experience. It is really sick that these money greedy a#$%^^ destroy good thing in a name of money and novelty.

Original Post by bozanat:

I have a polar watch which I used during a 60 minute hot yoga class. I burned 313 Calories. This is based on my weight, height and fitness level. I usually burn less than most people as I have a low heart rate, and am pretty fit.

HRMs are useless for estimating calories expended during yoga--or strength training, pilates, etc. HRMs are only reasonably accurate when the increase in HR reflects an increase in oxygen uptake. This happens during steady-state cardio, but not during the aforementioned activities. So, even though HR increases, it is not accompanied by an increase in oxygen uptake or caloric expenditure.

Even during aerobic exercise, the fact that you "have a low heart rate" has absolutely no effect on calories burned. If you indeed have a "low heart rate" --i.e. your actual maximum heart rate is lower than the age-predicted number your HRM has calculated for you, you should adjust the settings on your HRM to reflect that. The reason you "burn less" is most likely due to improper setup of your HRM rather than any specific characteristic of your physiology.

Original Post by mhunter1222:

I disagree with the statement that you should not practice Yoga for weight loss.  Yoga strengthens your Core which will lead to overall body strength.  Don't forget that muscle burns fat.  Building the muscle around your Core will burn the FAT around your Core. 

Should it be used alone for weightloss?  No.  Weightloss involves a combination of many things and Yoga can be just one piece of the puzzle.  It is very powerful for your Core.  Don't underestimate the value of it.

Personally, I practice Yoga in combination with cardio and strength training.  Monday I do Yoga.  Tuesday I either take the day off or do standard cardio.  Wednesday I do a class called Total Body Training which involves intervals of high impact cardio and strength training with medium to heavy weights.  Thursday I do another class which is intervals of high impact cardio and strength training with light weights.  Friday I do a class which is nothing but modular strength training with medium to heavy weights.

 

You don't "build muscle around your core". Any increases in "strength" in that area is almost entirely due to neuromuscular facilitation (that actually holds true for yoga in general). Strengthening the core will have virtually no effect on fat burning (and you can't spot reduce anyhow).

Any weight loss benefits from yoga will be tangential -- e.g. improved sense of well-being, increased confidence, improved ability to sustain vigorous exercise, decreased injury, etc. For many people, these benefits are not insubstantial. The facts are the facts-there is no need to make inflated claims about the benefits of yoga.