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Swimming - calories burned

crazycranberry
crazycranberry Posts: 117 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Can anyone help me decide what the calorie burn was for the swimming I did yesterday.
I did approx 75lengths of the pool in 1hour.

When I put in 60min swimming as 'freestyle light moderate' it comes out at 440
When I put in 60min swimming as 'breast stroke general' it comes out at 630

This is a big difference. Should I just go for 500kcal in the middle of the two?

Any suggestions? :smile:

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  • xMissy6x
    xMissy6x Posts: 347 Member
    id go for the middle :)
  • Angel1066
    Angel1066 Posts: 816 Member
    id go for the middle :)

    I agree.
  • poedunk65
    poedunk65 Posts: 1,336 Member
    yeah the cals burned for some exercises seem overinflated to me too. I'd go somewhere inthe middle.
  • jeff261159
    jeff261159 Posts: 385
    Can anyone help me decide what the calorie burn was for the swimming I did yesterday.
    I did approx 75lengths of the pool in 1hour.

    When I put in 60min swimming as 'freestyle light moderate' it comes out at 440
    When I put in 60min swimming as 'breast stroke general' it comes out at 630

    This is a big difference. Should I just go for 500kcal in the middle of the two?

    Any suggestions? :smile:
    what stroke did you do? if it was mixed then i would split the difference.
  • bstamps12
    bstamps12 Posts: 1,184
    Swimming is one exercise on MFP that I do NOT think is overinflated in calories burned. I try to track the minutes of each stroke I do because there is a huge difference in the muscles used and your HR depending on the stroke. Especially butterfly! I would meet in the middle for your cals burned this time but try to keep track of # minutes per stroke and log it that way in the future for the closest estimation of actual calories burned.
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