To lose 1lb a week, on an average day you should burn around 500 calories more than you eat. You cannot target specific areas, eg belly fat. You can tone muscle but fat/weight loss means overall body weight reduction. To burn this with Hatha Yoga will take around 2 hours 20 minutes ever day for a week. Ashtanga or Power Yoga would need around 1 hour 30 minutes daily. For most of this just isn’t practical. Hot Yoga or Bikram Yoga fare a bit better needing just over an hour but the best choice is Vinyasa Yoga or Yoga Flow at a little less than an hour.
Why not try our 30 Day Yoga Weight Loss Challenges. Our Yoga Challenges begin with a ramped up cardio challenge for 5 minutes to get the metabolism working thus burning more calories exponentially. Yoga is equal parts strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance. The best yoga poses to burn calories include Plank, Chair, Wheel, High Lunge, Sun Salutations and Dolphins, all of which are included.
To lose 1lb a week, on an average day you should burn around 500 calories more than you eat. You cannot target specific areas, eg belly fat. You can tone muscle but fat/weight loss means overall body weight reduction. To burn this with Hatha Yoga will take around 2 hours 20 minutes ever day for a week. Ashtanga or Power Yoga would need around 1 hour 30 minutes daily. For most of this just isn’t practical. Hot Yoga or Bikram Yoga fare a bit better needing just over an hour but the best choice is Vinyasa Yoga or Yoga Flow at a little less than an hour.
Those figures are average for all weights. Calorie burn varies with many factors but weight makes a big difference so check below for calories burned by weight. The calories below are for an middle of the road yoga class. For more accuracy choose your yoga type here.
Calories Burned in 15 minutes
Calories Burned in 40 minutes
Calories Burned in 45 minutes
Calories Burned in 1 hour 15 mins
Calories Burned in 1 hour 30 mins
Calories Burned in 2 hours
