Yoga Calorie Burn Calculator

This calculator estimates energy expenditure with the standard MET (metabolic equivalent) method: Calories Burned equals the style-and-intensity MET value times your body weight in kilograms times the session length in hours. Yoga Style is what moves the needle most among the two selects: even holding Intensity fixed at Moderate, the MET table underneath it spans 2.0 (Yin/Restorative) to 6.5 (Bikram/Hot Yoga), a bit over threefold, and the full table (Style and Intensity both moving) reaches 1.5 up to 8.5. That's still narrower than the multiplier Body Weight or Session Duration can produce on their own across their declared input ranges (roughly fivefold for Body Weight, eighteenfold for Session Duration) -- but a realistic single change to Yoga Style moves the result in a bigger single jump than a realistic single change to either of those, since there's no in-between MET value on the way from Yin to Bikram.

Body Weight and Session Duration then scale the result proportionally and by an equal share each: a heavier practitioner or a longer session both raise Calories Burned by the same percentage they themselves increased by, since the formula multiplies all three terms together with none weighted more than another. Weekly and Monthly figures simply extrapolate one session at three times a week, and Equivalent Walking converts your session's MET value against a 3.5 MET walking pace so you can compare it to a familiar activity. MET values are population averages from exercise-physiology tables, not a measurement of your own metabolism, so treat the output as a reasonable estimate rather than a lab-measured figure.