gaging swimming on MFP

Breckgirl
Breckgirl Posts: 606 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I want to know how you gage the level of difficulty on swimming. It lists general, light/moderate, and fast/vigerious. It also doesn't list lap swimming on any stroke but freestyle. Am I to assume that the other strokes are not lap swimming? I swim laps using all of the strokes to get an even workout. could you be more specific? is general slower than light/ moderate? could you gage it by miles per hour ?

I just posted this on tech support. Does anyone have any helpful input on this?

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  • delilah514
    delilah514 Posts: 126 Member
    I think it will depend on your level of experience with swimming. Are you a recreational swimmer who does it for fun? Or a current/former competitive swimmer? How many years experience do you have swimming? What is the time for your 100 freestyle? Do you swim sets/worksouts or just straight lap swimming? All of these things I think will factor into to deciding whether or not to pick light/mod or fast/vig.

    For me I consider most of my swim workouts to be fast/vigorous, but I also have 10+ years of competitive swimming under my belt & because of that I can tell the difference between the fast/vigorous & the light/moderate in my swimming style. Some days I just get into the water & swim laps to get in the water so those are light/mod. But when I swim a hard workout with a variety of different sets I get my heart rate way up and I consider that fast/vig.

    As for logging different swim strokes, I log it all as freestyle for simplicity. I don't want to say yah 5 minutes of this then 5 minutes of that & so on so on. Its just to hard with the type of workouts that I do. If you are pushing just as hard swimming breaststroke or any other stroke as you are at freestyle you should be burning around the same amount of calories. And man butterfly is hard if anything you would be burning more doing that then freestyle! LOL

    Well I don't know how helpful all of this was, but just thought I would put in my two cents as swimming is one of my favorite exercise to do.
  • Breckgirl
    Breckgirl Posts: 606 Member
    I think it will depend on your level of experience with swimming. Are you a recreational swimmer who does it for fun? Or a current/former competitive swimmer? How many years experience do you have swimming? What is the time for your 100 freestyle? Do you swim sets/worksouts or just straight lap swimming? All of these things I think will factor into to deciding whether or not to pick light/mod or fast/vig.

    For me I consider most of my swim workouts to be fast/vigorous, but I also have 10+ years of competitive swimming under my belt & because of that I can tell the difference between the fast/vigorous & the light/moderate in my swimming style. Some days I just get into the water & swim laps to get in the water so those are light/mod. But when I swim a hard workout with a variety of different sets I get my heart rate way up and I consider that fast/vig.

    As for logging different swim strokes, I log it all as freestyle for simplicity. I don't want to say yah 5 minutes of this then 5 minutes of that & so on so on. Its just to hard with the type of workouts that I do. If you are pushing just as hard swimming breaststroke or any other stroke as you are at freestyle you should be burning around the same amount of calories. And man butterfly is hard if anything you would be burning more doing that then freestyle! LOL

    Well I don't know how helpful all of this was, but just thought I would put in my two cents as swimming is one of my favorite exercise to do.

    I swim in sets such as 4 laps of breast, 4 laps of free, 4 laps of side, 4 laps of back, then I swim 4 sets of mixed with a lap of each stroke, and then start all over. Right now I'm swimming nearly one mile an hour. When I get up to my normal speed it will be one and 1/2 miles per hour. AND YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT FLY...NO THANK YOU!!!:laugh:
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