Burn 500+ calories with this yoga routine

by Maggie Vink (Subscribe to Maggie Vink's posts)
Sep 18th 2008 2:00PM

Categories: Fitness

Yoga? A good calorie burner? Yoga is well-known for the many health benefits it provides, the strength and flexibility it develops, and the mind/body balance it creates, but it's not usually touted for calorie burning.

Fitness Magazine shares a 60-minute yoga routine that can burn 500 or more calories (depending on your weight). The routine revolves around the sun salutation -- each circuit begins and ends with that series. Other series include half-push up, lunge jump, warrior, and chair with twist.

I tried one rotation of each move this morning -- far short of the recommended hour. It certainly does provide a good variety of moves and stretches almost all muscle groups. I can see where an hour of this workout would be great. Try it out and see for yourself!

For more yoga information, check out AOL Health.

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Yogini 9-19-2008 @ 6:58AM

So basically what they say is that you just keep doing sun salutations for 60 minutes... I don't think it burns 500 calories an hour, that appears to be an exaggeration.

Just do Sun Salutations A and B (5 of each) as it is done in Ashtanga, and add the standing poses which are at the beginning of each series, and you've already got yourself about 45 minutes of a nice workout, with more variety (although if you're patient enough to do a 60 minute Sun Salutations, that's great too).
I would recommend going on and practicing the entire primary series of Ashtanga, which will balance it with some nice sitting poses, including great spinal twists and end it with a refreshing finishing poses sequence.

Here are links to the salutations and the series:
http://ashtangayoga.info/asana-vinyasa/index.html