Calories burnt swimming freestyle
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The problem with MFPs calorie tracker for calories burned during an exercise is that it doesn't take into account a persons weight and it's way too general when taking into account the amount of effort used during exercises. One person's sprint may be someone else's light swim.
Swimmingcalculator.com is better at determining calories burned because it takes into account your weight as well as your pace, distance, and which stroke you swim.
And according to swimmingcalculator.com, you burned 776 calories by swimming 2500 of freestyle in one hour so the calculator is comparable to your heart rate monitor.
I've tried several calculators. I prefer the conservative number I get from MFP.
The trick is understanding the assumption behind the calculator. It assumes 1 minute per 50 yards/meters. So if I swim 60 laps, (3000 yards) I enter 60. I do 120 laps in the morning and enter 120 "minutes." I have found other web sites can substantially over estimate.
But approximately 10 cal. per lap is what I get.
MFP calculates A little over 1200 calories for my 120 laps swim.
Swim Calc says over 2000. I'll stick with the conservative number.
My 5 mile swim on Super Bowl Sunday recorded as 1880 calories.
This calculators splits the difference between swim calc and MFP. Seems to have a robust engine behind it.
http://42.195km.net/e/swim/0 -
AQ, I would guess that you'd probably end up burning more calories - I think the idea is probably a faster stroke rate but still getting as much resistance against the arm as possible. I've noticed with my swimmers (& myself) that when I try to "throw my hands" faster I end up not concentrating on getting that good grip on the water for the pull, so my hands & arms "slide" through the water without giving me much bang for the buck on the stroke. Throwing the hands fast AND getting that good pull is where the increased speed (& one would presume increased calorie burn) would come from. I'm not (nor was I ever) a good sprinter, so my focus has always been more on a powerful stroke & endurance. I try to get the kids to use a faster stroke but to not sacrifice the power to achieve the speed.....
Thanks, Mac.
Yep you are absolutely right and that is what I'm presently trying to do - get back my grip on the water and lengthening my stroke at this fast rate.
When I switched, it was all I could do to keep the hands turning at that rate, which I expected. I'm sure everything else went haywire - body position, length of pull, catch, etc.
But now that I'm a few swims in, things are beginning to calm down, my body is slowly adjusting to the new regime and slowly building up the strength to keep with this rate and retain form in posture and pull.
The recommended way is to turn up the stroke rate slowly over a period. But I just went ahead and bumped it up by almost 10 at one go - haha - but having previously figured out to some extent what I should be doing with the stroke at the slower rate, I will impose that at the fast rate - it will just take abit of time.
I've regained almost 3 of the 5-6 min I lost though, so things are headed in the right direction But definitely burning way more calories. The hope is that while this new calorie burn rate remains constant or dips a little, the speed will head up and up! LOL! 0 -
AQ - that's fantastic progress in a very short time.....0
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