Started doing hot yoga classes, mostly for the stretching and balance, but I suspect I am burning some serious calories. Anyone have any good numbers?

Google

http://www.vancouverbikramyoga.com/about-bikram-yoga/bikram-yoga-calorie-calculator.html

I bet you are too! I tried that once at work and thought I was gonna have a stroke! Lol but I am very interested in trying it again. Where do you go...in okc?

Hidden Dragon: http://www.hiddendragonyoga.com/

They have a mid-town and Edmond location. Mon and Wed at 6 they have a beginners level class, with core work. Great stuff. I am usually the only guy in the class sans the instructor so please introduce yourself Soonergal91.

I might check it out!

Shrinking Peach, thank you, helpful link

Probably not as much as you think.. yoga, and hot yoga is awesome, but i mostly sweated during a 90 minute class.. I burned around 400 calories.. as opposed to about 800 if i was biking.. but it was a good stretch.

Try wearing a heart rate monitor.

• Chrystee, great idea, will do that tomorrow night. I find that I double up workouts on Yoga days, I'll throw in a 3 mile run after 5 or 6 hours of re-hydration

I normally do yoga on my rest days.. Otherwise, I'd do the cardio prior to the class.. you want to relax.

Edited June 10, 201511 yr by Chrystee

Does this include calories burned during the post-exercise trip to the ER?

I commend you - hot yoga scares the crap out of me.

How long ago were your surgeries?

Which surgery did you have?

How soon post-op did you return back to work?

Any vomiting?

Surgery was Nov 7, could have been able to return to work on the 9th, but waited until 11th. Only vomiting was when I tried pizza two months later and didn't chew it enough I had the sleeve

Based on my heart rate monitor and some sites I found online which does the math, I burn 594 calories during an one hour session.

I love hot yoga. At first I was also scared of it but I did a lot of other yoga classes at first: foundations, then some flow or vinyasa classes and now I do hot yoga about 3x a week and vinyasa 2x. The vinyasa yoga poses are more challenging but the hot is absolutely cathartic and cleansing. I think or at least my apple watch tells me I'm burning approx 200 calories in a vinyasa and about 300in a hot yoga class.

Based on my heart rate monitor and some sites I found online which does the math, I burn 594 calories during an one hour session.

That's fantastic.. I never burned that much, maybe 3-400.. even really large..