What burns calories quicker swimming or jogging? Advice plea

Here is a list of calories burned during various activities...Hope this helps!

http://www.nutristrategy.com/activitylist3.htm

although swimming is way better for your knees if you have bad knees

It will really vary for your body - what i mean is - the physiology is not different, - but your body may keep a higher more steady heart rate at one vs the other. For me, I HATE running and am prone to stopping and walking and letting my heart rate down. I LOVE swimming and burn 10 cals a minute average (500-600 / hr) - but this is at a clipping pace without stopping at the ends. There is also the fact that you breathe a lot differently swimming vs running and depending on how fluid (haha!) you are in the water, your ability to breathe regularly, deeply, and consistently can affect your heart rate and stamina majorly.

There's also the question of - you may burn more doing one thing or the other... but your happiness / enjoyability has to factor in as well! Plus, you may burn more (let's say) running, but if you hate it and run hard for 25 minutes and stop because you hate it, vs swimming at a lower heart rate for an hour because you love it... you would end up with more overall cals doing more of the lower level exercise that you like or that is easier on you. I also get sore from running because I have herniated discs, so it is not really worth it to me to burn possibly more, but be in pain.

Notes on swimming - I got a waterproof MP3 Player (it's called an H2Oman and it was $20 on Ebay) and listen to books on tape whenever I get the chance to do laps. I also like to sit in the steam room and burn another 100 cals after It keeps my heart rate up to 145 - 150!! (though I acknowledge it does nothing for my muscle tone! I use it to do some hot stretching.)

My advise to everyone - get a heart rate monitor and learn how your body reacts to different things and how it burns during different activities. You can also use it to determine what heart rate you need to maintain to burn your desired calories, and then, no matter what the activity - do it to the pace / level that keeps your heart rate at that level - then you should burn about the same cals no matter what exact activity you are doing (then it comes down to what muscle is being built or toned, and that is a whole other story!)

EDIT - i recommend Zumba I am 5'9 and 160 and regularly burn 650 cals per hour and it is fun! If you weigh more you will likely burn more given you also keep your heart rate up.

It will really vary for your body - what i mean is - the physiology is not different, - but your body may keep a higher more steady heart rate at one vs the other. For me, I HATE running and am prone to stopping and walking and letting my heart rate down. I LOVE swimming and burn 10 cals a minute average (500-600 / hr) - but this is at a clipping pace without stopping at the ends. There is also the fact that you breathe a lot differently swimming vs running and depending on how fluid (haha!) you are in the water, your ability to breathe regularly, deeply, and consistently can affect your heart rate and stamina majorly.

There's also the question of - you may burn more doing one thing or the other... but your happiness / enjoyability has to factor in as well! Plus, you may burn more (let's say) running, but if you hate it and run hard for 25 minutes and stop because you hate it, vs swimming at a lower heart rate for an hour because you love it... you would end up with more overall cals doing more of the lower level exercise that you like or that is easier on you. I also get sore from running because I have herniated discs, so it is not really worth it to me to burn possibly more, but be in pain.

Notes on swimming - I got a waterproof MP3 Player (it's called an H2Oman and it was $20 on Ebay) and listen to books on tape whenever I get the chance to do laps. I also like to sit in the steam room and burn another 100 cals after It keeps my heart rate up to 145 - 150!! (though I acknowledge it does nothing for my muscle tone! I use it to do some hot stretching.)

My advise to everyone - get a heart rate monitor and learn how your body reacts to different things and how it burns during different activities. You can also use it to determine what heart rate you need to maintain to burn your desired calories, and then, no matter what the activity - do it to the pace / level that keeps your heart rate at that level - then you should burn about the same cals no matter what exact activity you are doing (then it comes down to what muscle is being built or toned, and that is a whole other story!)

EDIT - i recommend Zumba I am 5'9 and 160 and regularly burn 650 cals per hour and it is fun! If you weigh more you will likely burn more given you also keep your heart rate up.

What is Zumba?

I would think jogging but there are site you can look that up. But do both to switch up your routine. You cant go wrong with either you know?

when I was taking my classes in college my teacher said that someone who normally does not really workout should beable walk 2 miles at a fast pace about 4mph before starting to jog.

I enjoy both running and swimming. However, don't pick an excersise based on how many calories it burns. Pick something you enjoy doing. Because if you don't honestly enjoy it, you may do it for a little while, but you won't keep up with it.

To answer your question, while running probably burns more calories for the same time peroid. You can probably swim for longer and probably burn more calories.