Not tracking Yoga Accurately?

[opalis141]

Hi there everyone! I got my fitbit Surge over the holidays to help me with my bouldering. It has been working well for tracking most of my activity, except for my yoga classes. I took a class a couple of days ago, made usre to select yoga in the exercise panel and tracked my hour long class. The fitbit barely showed any more calories burned then I would burn sitting still for an hour. This was a tough vinyasa class and I was sweating more than during my climb session the day before where I burned close to 600 calories. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I know looking at normal scientific studies regarding yoga and calories burned a vinyasa class can burn between 300-500 calories for the average person. 

[Julia_G]

Hi, @opalis141, since yoga is a non step based activity the Surge will calculate your calorie burn based on your profile information (gender, age, height, weight) and the heartrate detected during your class,

I also use my Fitbits to track my yoga classes.  Although I find my vinyassa class pretty intense, because of the nature of the exercise I find that although my heartrate can get quite high during the strenous parts, it very quickly goes down (as it should!) when you are in more relaxed poses -- in fact, I can track my pose sequence later from looking at my HR graph, which is quite fun.

Because you are unlikely to be in cardio or peak for an extended time, the calorie burn will probably be on the low side.  My personal preference is that it err on that side, but the alternative would be for you to create a manual log instead and fill in your own calorie burn.