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Beside Burning Calories Yoga Offer Many Other Health Benefit

How Many Calories Can Be Burned Doing Yoga

Yoga can help you to maintain your weight by expending calories and besides this will also provide many other physiological, psychological and social benefits. The exact numbers of calories you burn while performing yoga will depend on the type of yoga asana you perform. If you are involved in a traditional yoga class which may involve up to 20 postures in a single session (not to forget with correct breathing techniques to promote wellness) you may burn up to 200 calories per hour. However the exact number of calories burned during this yoga session will depend largely on the type of yoga pose and exertion during each pose. A yoga pose that involves low intensity work out will burn fewer calories than a pose that requires greater intensity of work out. But for an average weight person (approximately 150 pounds) a traditional yoga can burn up to 200 to 210 calories per hour.

Yoga is one of the upcoming and hottest fitness options for many people in the modern days. The term ‘hot’ is used not only due to its popularity but in hot yoga the class is actually conducted in heated rooms where the temperature can go up to forty degrees and these heated rooms stimulate more sweat production and thus can help to expend more calories. A hot yoga session for an hour can burn up to 700 calories as it has about 40 percent humidity in the room that can induce sweating.

Ashtanga yoga, which involves moderate to intense workouts, can burn up to 300 calories in an hour. Like ashtanga yoga, Power yoga can also burn up to 300 calories per hour. Power yoga involves intense breathing patterns and implementing quick changes in position with combination of different postures. It is the most western version of yoga and can be best for people with adequate yoga experience. But power yoga can prove difficult for beginners due to its quick pace.

Besides burning calories to maintain or lose weight, yoga can also offer many other physiological, psychological, biochemical and social health benefits. To gain maximum benefit from this form of exercise, do it under correct guidance and supervision, especially if you are a beginner. Correct breathing techniques while performing the asana and right command over the pose holds a lot of importance then just burning calories. Once the asanas are mastered then you can practice them daily to burn calories and maintain good health.

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