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Having knackered my foot a bit recently and had to cut down running I've started swimming again to make up some of the exercise I'm losing out on. I've been looking at calorie calculators (via Google) to try to work out how much less energy I'm using than when I was running properly, but having tried 3 and come back with scores of 225, 445 and 627 calories (for 40 mins or 1000m swimming depending on what they asked), I'm not really any better off.
I'm not very good at swimming and can only do breaststroke, which wasn't an option on the ones that had a choice of strokes, and am about 105kg in case that helps.
Anyone know of a decent calorie calculator for swimming, or even a way of working it out that might make some sense? I would be very grateful
I'm not very good at swimming and can only do breaststroke, which wasn't an option on the ones that had a choice of strokes, and am about 105kg in case that helps.
Anyone know of a decent calorie calculator for swimming, or even a way of working it out that might make some sense? I would be very grateful
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or - if you need the pool instead - try aquarobics??
so how do I calculate my calorie expenditure in aquarobics? ;-)
and - no idea!!!
I think you may be disappointed though, it's tough to get the heart rate up swmimming. Swimming breaststroke I dont burn any more calories than an easy walk.
Also you can register for a free three day trial on weightlossresources.co.uk. They have an exercise database that calculates calories based on your gender, weight etc.
I definitely feel more knackered after 40 minutes swimming than after 40 minutes running, but obviously I'm not supporting my bodyweight etc. I realise its not going to be close to what I'd burn running, I'd just like to know exactly how not close.
I don't know if I'd want to wear my garmin in the pool - are most HRMs waterproof enough to swim with or do you need specific ones?
This is a very thorough, but slightly random calorie calculator. I'm not sure what happens if you run cross country at different paces, but at least I now know how many calories a police offiver burns while making an arrest, as well as how many I burn when grooming my horse and washing my dog.