Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
What do you think of the hot yoga weight loss results we’ve heard about?
Most of that weight loss is due to all the sweating they do in the sauna.
Hot yoga drives up your heart rate and increases your metabolism.
Why not just do yoga out on the sidewalk in July? It’s cheaper than hot yoga and you
get the same metabolic stresses.
You could fall over from heat stroke.
The same is true of a hot yoga session. Actually, it might be worse because you expect to be
enlightened or mentally phased during yoga whereas passing out outside means people will
worry something is wrong.
They’ve found that people who do yoga lose more weight than those who don’t.
If you’re doing yoga, you are theoretically getting in tune with your body. Part of those
results might be people regaining proper sensitivity to their appetite levels instead of eating
until literally stuffed.
Then hot yoga does help you lose weight.
It isn’t as good as starting up a workout regimen.
Hot yoga does workout your body. It drives up your heart rate.
You get the same effect doing yoga in a parka in the spring.
But that would look weird.
If you want to lose weight, go for a jog, or even a walk.
In a parka, in the summer, would still look weird.
Weight loss is a matter of burning more calories than you take in. Whether you ramp up your
workout to burn more calories, eat fewer calories or both is up to you.
Yoga does burn calories.
Yoga burns maybe three calories a minute.
That’s pretty good.
You burn that many calories getting up to manually change the channels on the television.
You’ll burn five to ten times that many with a kettlebell.
Can I save money by swinging my tea kettle or a sauce pan?
Start cleaning your house and mopping your floors and you’ll burn 200 calories an hour,
more than hot yoga.
But no one wants to hear how I lost weight cleaning the bathroom.