Calories burned doing water exercise

BARBnKS

How many calories would I burn doing an hour arthritis water class?

hill8570

Go to http://scoobysworkshop.com/calories-burned/ , punch in your stats, and select "water aerobics". Should be ballpark accurate.

BARBnKS

Thanks! The scooby workshop is a great tool to figure out calories but I don't feel I'm burning 600 calories doing mostly stretching & walking in the pool. If I was moving at a good pace for the full hour then yes I would say that is accurate. I was hoping that someone who is doing what I do with a arthritis water class would tell me how many calories they log for this activity.

middlehaitch

MFP has water calisthenics in its data base. Try that. If you feel the calorie count is too high, only eat back a portion of it.

Cheers, h.

ohmscheeks

60 calories

sheermomentum

arthritis class is typically pretty gentle and slow - would you say its more like pilates or yoga in the water, than like aerobics? I would log it accordingly - as yoga or pilates.

earlnabby

BARBnKS wrote: »

Thanks! The scooby workshop is a great tool to figure out calories but I don't feel I'm burning 600 calories doing mostly stretching & walking in the pool. If I was moving at a good pace for the full hour then yes I would say that is accurate. I was hoping that someone who is doing what I do with a arthritis water class would tell me how many calories they log for this activity.

I use the MFP database and it is a smaller burn than the Scooby one. I only enter 40 minutes for a 60 minute class to adjust for the time spent warming up at the beginning and the stretching at the end. You could try something like that: use the database but record less time to adjust for the lower intensity.

ETA: I have taken the arthritis class and the fibromyalgia class and, for the classes I took, would consider the arthritis to be about 75% of the intensity of my regular water aerobics class. The fibro class would be about 50%

angreed65

Thanks for the info on this. I've just gotten back to what is now called "Aqua fit" at my new gym. I went to my first class in nearly 20 years this week!