Hot Yoga - calories burned, any idea?

[ubik]

Am a few weeks into doing regular Bikram yoga mainly because i want to tone up but also to help manage stress.

I know this is shallow and it's all holistic etc etc - but how many calories do you reckon you burn in 90 mins? And if you have been doing it for a while, what benefits have you found?

[Mitchy1nge]

am scared of getting a disease, is that just an urban (or rural in my case) myth from the sauna like conditions, heaving with flu and meningitis and stuff?

[ubik]

Well I attend a proper studio, I take my own mat and towel and they open the windows and doors after a session. It's very clean. I don't think the risk of viral infection is any higher than attending an aerobics session or using a (shudder) public sauna.

People do sweat a great deal though and I know for some of my friends that was a bit to icky to cope with

[overmydeadbody]

Depends on how much you weigh

[overmydeadbody]

Roughly I'd say between 80 and 100 calories per ten minutes of excersise, that is the rough estimate for lots of sports

[ubik]

I did an online test thing which calculated weight + hot yoga = calories burned and with a weight of 138 lbs it calculated at around 900!

Having been a regular runner til my knee gave out, that seems a very high calorie burn for yoga, although it is very intense and you do sweat a great deal.

[MasterOfTheYoniverse]

They advertise 600-800 cal burned per session.

[Mitchy1nge]

900 calories! I would risk smallpox, plague and TB for that!

(there are pools of sweat everywhere after spin so is a ridiculous myth I bet)

[overmydeadbody]

ubik I would burn 900 calories on a 90 minute run, and they do compare hot yoga to running.

Just give or take a little depending on how hard you push yourself and hold the moves.

[ubik]

Maybe it is 900 calories! And the best thing about it is that it's warm in there. I can lie on the floor and have a nice sleep before the instructor starts torturing us.

Mitchy - I'd totally recommend it, it's really great for stretching your back and legs.

[Mitchy1nge]

I love stretchy exercises, and at 900 calories a session I don't care if they come with free yellow fever or cholera or whatever I think I might give it a try, do you pay as you go at yours or have to enrol for a whole term?

[ubik]

You can buy a certain number of sessions at ours and then just use them as and when...it ain't cheap (probably due to heating bills) but they do seemly do introductory offers fir newbies.

[Mitchy1nge]

grrr is £35 a month or just over £10 a class if pay as and when

sorry to be so nosy but how much are your classes?

[ubik]

I paid £99 for 20 sessions -but I get money off as I am NHS. I paid £20 fir 20 days of lessons as an introductory offer. Your one dies seen v expensive, they may have cheaper rates fr certain classes if you go an ask

[Movingforward123]

I was going to start normal yoga as I have back problems and I'm recovering from a sprained ankle, do you think the exercises help your back?

[Mitchy1nge]

I'll look for another class, wish I lived in a city or somewhere with choice that doesn't mean driving for half an hour grrrrr

[mercury7]

I really dont think hot yoga can be compared to running in terms of calories burned!