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Heart rate determines calories burned

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This may sound crazy but when I’m in the hot tub my heart rate stays at a steady 150 bpm. This must equate to 1000 calories an hour according to heart rate calorie calculators. Is this great in addition to diet and cardio?

JohnJuice's picture

Imagine taking hot showers and losing fat.

Makwa's picture

takes alot of energy to try and cool your body down.

Greg's picture

I wear my Galaxy watch and one time my Polar heart rate monitor (chest strap) into the sauna. In 42 minutes it recorded a max heart rate of 137bpm, 467 kcals burned, 12% fat burn (%percent of cals). After a workout, it'll be more like 157bpm max and in the 140's average.

I call it the afterburn. After I work out and get my heart rate up, when I go into my sauna my heartrate will continue where it started and at some points it even goes up. IMO, it continues the cardio well beyond my workout duration. There's a lot more going on than just a fast heartrate, your body is doing all sorts of things trying to keep your temperature down.

ONESICK's picture

lol no you aren't going to lose 1k in calories on it's own. Although you are burning some. To gain the most benefit would be to exercise and hit a hot tub after a workout to increase blood flow...blah blah...science....etcetera.

BFG's picture

Ever seen a fat tweaker? Biggrin

JEX30Sex's picture

I have, but they had just started their career.

ONESICK's picture

Tweakers don't eat lol. I've unfortunately had to supervise some at my last job. MFs will put in work but I never once seen them eat a meal lol.

Greg's picture

I wouldn't be too sure about that. A neighbor of mine, just a suburban mom, lost a ton of weight just using her dry sauna.
Your body burns calories even in your sleep.

ONESICK's picture

I'm saying 1k just by itself at one time. Where you're sitting for hours on end lol. Just put in the work. A hot tub can dehydrate you pretty quickly. When I would fight to drop weight quick I would set up a bike in the sauna and within a couple hours I'd be down 10 pounds or so. There's science behind it and there's numerous benefits to it but just being lazy...sitting in a hot tub...eh...

Greg's picture

So, you put in the work at the gym and rather than call it a day you spend an extra half hour or so sitting in a sauna detoxing, sweating it out drinking mineral water burning off another 300 plus calories. Your solution to bike in the 150-degree sauna would have your heart redlining at 178 bpm. You'll drop weight quick alright, mostly after the coroner is done with you.

I can burn 900 to 1k calories in one hour lifting rounds and splitting and stacking wood. A full body workout; distracting and kind of fun. My heartrate is easily in zone 4 most of that time with spikes into zone 5. No way can I lift weights for that long or stay on a tread mill and stay consistently in the higher zone. The sauna/hot tub is pumping blood, opening vessels, sweating, etc. all in an effort to keep you from overheating. You don't have to try to maintain stamina or have endurance to burn those calories.

So, if you've got the time, why not do both?
And the question posed from the OP is, "Is this great in addition to diet and cardio?" not, in leu of cardio. he's not suggesting, as you say, "just sitting in a hot tub."