To try and lose a large amount of belly fat in 1 week is not really possible. A realistic amount would be perhaps 2 lb. To lose that, and remember we want to burn fat not lose muscle and water, you will need to burn 1000 calories a day unless you combine it with a very strict diet. Exercising hard is not easy when your energy is down through lack of food. In addition, you cannot target specific areas, eg belly fat. You can tone muscle but fat/weight loss means overall body weight reduction. I recommend you look at our 30 Day Yoga Fat Loss Challenges for a little longer time.
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. In the meantime, take a look at Dee in the video above, demonstrating the best yoga poses to work those abs..
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 1 hour
Calories Burned in 40 minutes
Calories Burned in 40 minutes
Calories Burned in 45 minutes
Calories Burned in 1 hour 30 mins
Calories Burned in 2 hours
