“It’s always a good idea to check with your doctor if you’re going to try an activity that could stress your body,” says Laskowski. If a person has certain preexisting chronic health conditions, previous heat injury, certain heart conditions, easily gets dehydrated, or is pregnant, it may not be safe to do hot yoga, he says.
In general, hot yoga is safe for someone as long as they’re in good health, says Laskowski. Pregnant Women, People With Heart Conditions, and Some Others Should Check With Their MD Before Doing Hot Yoga It would be a good idea to have some yoga experience before you step into a hot yoga class, says Scupp. Depending on the studio, there may be a beginner level course offered. Vinyasa yoga or flow-type yoga practiced in a heated studio can also be called hot yoga. Yoga done in a hot environment is called “hot yoga.” Hot yoga became popular in the 1970s with a specific style called Bikram yoga, and heat is now used to enhance a variety of yoga styles. The size of the room, the weather outside, and how packed the class is can all be factors in how hot the room gets, Scupp says. Some studios, like Heatwise, use infrared heat that comes from electric heat panels that are placed on the ceiling or around the room, which can feel more natural than forced-air heat, she says. Not only can the temperature fluctuate depending on the studio (check the class description or call the individual studio to find out details), but the method of heating can be different as well, says Scupp.Īlong with conventional heating, some studios use a humidifier to make the room feel warmer. In hot yoga, the room is heated to temperatures that can range from the high 80s to 105 degrees F, on average. “That’s good, because that’s what we do in our daily life,” he says. It’s a good way to get your resistance training in, because yoga builds functional strength (meaning you get stronger by using multiple joint and muscle groups together rather than strengthening a specific muscle in isolation, as you might do in weight lifting). Certain positions and poses where a person must hold up part of their body weight will challenge a muscle and make it stronger, he says. Yoga can also help build strength, Laskowski says.
But the amount of aerobic benefit a person could get from yoga depends a lot on the style and pace of the type of yoga you’re doing, he says. Yoga probably isn’t in the same category of aerobic exercise as running or biking, says Laskowski. “The heart is a muscle, and when you challenge it by elevating your heart rate you make it stronger,” says Dr. Some may do yoga for the contemplative or meditative part of it and some people might want more of the exercise and activity part.”Īnything that elevates our heart rate for a consistent period of time is beneficial to overall fitness, he says. “People have different goals coming into yoga. Yoga didn't originate as an exercise program, but some styles have been adapted into workouts focused on the physical parts of the practice, says Edward Laskowski, MD, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist and the former codirector of Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota.
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