How many calories are burned during a yoga class?
Even though participants feel as though they’re working hard—and from a muscular standpoint, they are—they are not achieving significant aerobic or calorie-burning benefits from a yoga class. Yet despite its limited aerobic conditioning effect, yoga classes remain one of the most challenging and effective means of increasing strength and endurance, improving balance and coordination, and of course, better flexibility. Depending on your genetic makeup, how hard you are working out, the level of class you are taking, the variation or modification of the poses you are doing, and how long you’ve been doing the exercise will depend on how many calories you burn during class. Studies indicate that beginning exercisers doing a class at a beginning level with modifications burn approx. 150 calroies in a 50 minute session. An experienced exerciser performing an advanced class with no modifications can burn upwards of 350 calories in a 50 minute session. Pilates classes find similar results: app
