How Many Calories are Burned by Yoga?
For yoga, Hatha, which is a typical intensity activity under the general description of yoga activities, the average calories burned by a person weighing 190 pounds (86 Kg) in 30 minutes is 108 Calories. In one hour yoga, Hatha will burn 215 Calories.
Summary of Yoga Information and Charts
To help you find the information you need, we first focus on yoga, Hatha which is the most common yoga activity. This is followed by the activities with the highest burn rate which is yoga, Power, and the lowest which is yoga, Nadisodhana, giving the average calories burned per minute and per hour, along with food calorie equivalents and our new proprietary calories burned score© and calories burned rank©The calorie score gives an indication of the relative burn rate of the yoga activities measured as a percentage score out of 100 for the different yoga activities, where 100% is the maximum calorie burn which we estimate from running at a pace of 4 minutes per mile which is a world class speed for running for 30 mins.
The calorie rank is the rank of the yoga activity compared with all other 800 activities in our database to give an indication of the percentage of activities which have a higher or lower calorie burn. A rank of 1 means it is the highest ranking activity in terms or calorie burn and a rank of 100 means it is the activity with the lowest carlorie burn compared with all other activities.
Effect of Intensity on the Calorie Calculator
Although the above is a typical example for yoga, the calculator we use to determine the calories burnt depends on the intensity, duration and your body weight. At the bottom of the article we have a variety of different intensities which can be personalized based on your weight and the duration of the activities, using our free calculator.
Calorie Score and Calorie Rank for Yoga
At dietandfitnesstoday we have a new proprietary concept of a Calories Burned Score© and Calories Burned Rank©.
Calories Burned in 30 Minutes for a Typical yoga Activity
As we have previously mentioned Yoga, Hatha is a moderate and typical level of intensity for yoga and can be used as a general representative approximate measure for calories burnt by yoga. For this activity in 30 minutes an average man weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) burns 108 Calories, while an average woman weighing 163 pounds (74 kg), in 30 minutes burns 92 Calories.
Calories Per Minute
The calories burned per minute for Yoga, Hatha is 4 Calories per minute, for a typical man and for a typical female is 3 Calories per minute.
Calories Per Hour
The calories lost in one hour is 215 calories for a typical man, and 185 calories in one hour for a typical woman.
How to Burn 100 Calories
To burn 100 calories for a typical male would require 25 minutes of the activity yoga, Hatha and to burn 100 calories with the same yoga activity for a typical female would take 33 minutes.
Score and Rank
Yoga, Hatha has a Calorie Burned Score© of 8.00 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 8.00 % of the highest realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calorie Burned Rank© of 88.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 88.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 631.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than yoga, Hatha
Equivalent Activities
The following activities burn the same number of calories as Yoga, Hatha -
- automobile or light truck (not a semi) driving
- billiards
- bird watching, slow walk
- boating, power, driving
- building a fire inside
Comparison with Inactivity
30 mins of inactivity for example just sitting and watching television burns 43 calories for a typical man and 37 calories for a typical woman. Which means Yoga, Hatha burns 2.7 times more calories than the equivalent time of inactivity for an average man and 2.5 times more calories for an average female.
Food Calorie Equivalents
This level of 108 calories burnt by an average man yoga, Hatha is equivalent to 0.2 Big Macs, 0.4 snickers bar, 0.9 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 0.4 cheeseburgers, 0.4 slices of pizza or 0.3 large blueberry muffins.
For an average female burning 92 calories is equivalent to 0.2 Big Macs, 0.3 snickers bar, 0.8 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 0.3 cheeseburgers, 0.3 slices of pizza or 0.2 large blueberry muffins.
Weight Loss from Yoga
To answer the question how many pounds will I lose from the activity yoga? Taking this example of yoga, Hatha in 30 minutes, the weight loss for a typical man is a minimum of 0.02 pounds, and a typical woman would lose 0.01 pounds.
Based on 4 sessions per week of yoga, Hatha for a duration of 30 minutes per session, the approximate time taken to lose one pound is 13 weeks for a man and 25 weeks for a woman, assuming no other changes in lifestyle or eating habits.
The same 4 sessions per week of yoga, Hatha for a duration of 30 minutes per session, would lose 1kg in 7 weeks for a man and 9 weeks for a woman.
Yoga Activity with the Highest Calorie Burn
The highest number of calories burned for an average person is achieved by yoga, Power. For this activity in 30 minutes an average man burns 172 Calories, while an average woman in 30 minutes burns 148 Calories.
This activity of yoga, Power has a Calories Burned Score© of 14.70 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 14.70 % of the maximum realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calories Burned Rank© of 77.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 77.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 421.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than yoga, Power
Yoga Activity with the Lowest Calorie Burn
The yoga activity with the lowest calories burnt is yoga, Nadisodhana, which for an average man in 30 minutes burns 86 Calories, and for an average woman burns 74 Calories.
This activity of yoga, Nadisodhana has a Calories Burned Score© of 5.70 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 5.70 % of the maximum realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calories Burned Rank© of 92.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 92.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 712.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than yoga, Nadisodhana
Average Calories Burned by Yoga
Based on the the list of 7 yoga activities, shown below, the average calories burned for an average male, weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) is 118 Calories for 30 minutes of yoga. The average burnt for an average female, weighing 163 pounds (74 kg) is 101 Calories for 30 minutes of yoga.
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| Calories Burned in 30 minutes of yoga for Average Male (M) and Female (F) (click to personalise). | |
| yoga, Power - calories Male=172 kcal, Female=148 kcal. | |
| Surya Namaskar yoga - calories Male=142 kcal, Female=122 kcal. | |
| sitting, teaching stretching or yoga, or light effort exercise class - calories Male=121 kcal, Female=104 kcal. | |
| yoga, Hatha - calories Male=108 kcal, Female=92 kcal. | |
| activity promoting video game (e.g., Wii Fit), light effort (e.g., balance, yoga) - calories Male=99 kcal, Female=85 kcal. | |
| video exercise workouts, TV conditioning programs (e.g., yoga, stretching), light effort - calories Male=99 kcal, Female=85 kcal. | |
| yoga, Nadisodhana - calories Male=86 kcal, Female=74 kcal. | |
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