Swimming conundrum

biggphatdaddy

I love swimming and since we moved into our new house, we have a pool, so it assists with my wants, and also my needs by giving me another outlet for my workout...
So, my problem is how many calories am i really burning in the pool...I usually put on my MFP diary how much time I spend in the pool minus10 or 15 minutes. I do this because I know the entire I'm in the pool, i am not swimming non stop. I label it swimming (leisure, general), but my question, is how much of my pool activity is burning the calories? I just dont know....
I think i may stop putting my pool time on MFP at all and just allow whatever calories may burn surprise me...
Any suggestions?

lilchino4af

Best thing would be to invest in a HRM that you can use in the pool; it will tell you exactly how many calories you're burning.

cmw72

Look at the Polar HRM's. I use a FT60 in the pool and it works great.

MFP was over-estimating my calorie expenditures for swimming.

LotusF1ower

I love swimming and since we moved into our new house, we have a pool, so it assists with my wants, and also my needs by giving me another outlet for my workout...
So, my problem is how many calories am i really burning in the pool...I usually put on my MFP diary how much time I spend in the pool minus10 or 15 minutes. I do this because I know the entire I'm in the pool, i am not swimming non stop. I label it swimming (leisure, general), but my question, is how much of my pool activity is burning the calories? I just dont know....
I think i may stop putting my pool time on MFP at all and just allow whatever calories may burn surprise me...
Any suggestions?

All depends what you do in the pool but hope this is useful for you - all are for one hour swimming:

Swimming freestyle vigourously - 863 calories
Swimming freestyle moderate - 690
Swimming backstroke general - 690
Swimming breastroke general - 863
Swimming butterfly general - 949
Swimming leisurely general - 518
Treading water vigourously - 863
Treading water moderately - 345

Not sure how much you weigh, but these are based on people who weigh around the 190lb mark

biggphatdaddy

I would love to get into one of those, but that is where money comes into play...LOL...For now, I think i will just stick with my plan of not putting the swimming on here, and letting it sneak up on me....I like surprises...