Why You're Not Losing Weight with Hot Yoga
Why aren't you losing weight with hot yoga?
Hot yoga, which combines yoga's slim-down image with a hot environment that makes you sweat profusely, seems like it would have a powerful effect on weight loss. But is hot yoga really an exercise that helps you lose weight?
● I'm doing hot yoga, but I'm not losing weight...
● Hot yoga instructors don't look like they've done any body shaping...
● I feel like there are many women who are overweight but still attend hot yoga...
● I'm sweating a lot in hot yoga, but I'm not losing weight...
● I can't lose weight even with hot yoga...
● I feel like I've gained weight since starting hot yoga...
We receive countless diet consultations with these cries of frustration and questions about why hot yoga isn't working.
The simple conclusion is: this is a fact.
The reason is simple.
The fundamental principle of dieting is to increase your basal metabolism, which accounts for 70% of the energy consumed by your body.
The only way to increase your basal metabolism is to increase your muscle mass.
The only tissue in your body that burns fat is muscle.
Now, let's look at yoga from the perspective of "increasing muscle mass."
From a muscle physiology standpoint, two conditions are required to increase muscle:
1. Physical Process
Muscles have a property of adapting to a gravity environment. For example, astronauts return to Earth wobbly because their muscles atrophy in a zero-gravity environment. Conversely, muscles grow when subjected to a load that creates a gravity environment greater than 1G.
2. Chemical Process
This refers to growth hormones. Growth hormones are secreted when muscles are in a state of hypoxia due to muscle contraction and extension.
These two conditions are essential for increasing muscle.
Now, do the static poses of yoga meet these conditions?
Unfortunately, they don't meet either of them.
Performing hot yoga in a sauna-like environment where you sweat just by sitting still is no different. The poses in hot yoga have no load and no muscle contraction and extension.
This means you cannot increase muscle mass with hot yoga. Since muscle mass doesn't increase, you can't increase your basal metabolism.
What about activity metabolism?
Think about the laws of physics.
[Law of Physics] Work (calories) = Weight of object x Distance moved
As you know, in hot yoga, you hold poses and stay still.
This means there is no distance moved. Therefore, the calorie consumption is technically zero.
In reality, no matter how difficult the pose, the actual calorie consumption is only about 1 to 2 calories.
Whether you sweat a lot or not in hot yoga, the calories burned from the exercise itself are the same.
While there may be ideological differences between various styles of yoga, they are almost identical from an exercise physiology perspective.
In other words, hot yoga uses muscles by holding poses, but it doesn't increase basal metabolism, and the calorie consumption is minimal. The sweating in hot yoga is just an effect that makes you feel like you're losing weight.
Furthermore, many women who frequently attend hot yoga sessions suffer from a state of complete difficulty in losing weight. This is because excessive sweating in the sauna-like environment depletes important components in the blood, and in severe cases, it can lead to anemia. In such a state, which is a step away from being unhealthy, it's impossible to lose weight or do body shaping, no matter how much you exercise or diet...
Even if the number on the scale goes down, it's just a temporary drop in weight due to forcibly losing water in a harsh, hot environment.
This is nothing more than a temporary diet that only makes you look emaciated for a moment.
I sincerely hope that my knowledge and 30 years of experience as a personal trainer in body shaping and dieting can be of help to as many people as possible.
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