Calories Burned While Swimming?

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Subject: Calories Burned While Swimming?
Is there any way to track calories burned (or at least get a ball park number) while swimming? I suppose I could wear my HR strap in the pool, but is there any other way?

2009-03-25 9:00 AM
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2009-03-25 9:04 AM
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i thought that was for the loch ness monster/
2009-03-25 9:12 AM
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Dunno how accurate but it's a more consistant number than pulling one out of your butt

http://www.caloriesperhour.com/index_burn.php
2009-03-25 9:40 AM
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2009-03-25 10:08 AM
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Subject: RE: Calories Burned While Swimming?
The ballpark is 640 calories per hour if you are swimming reasonably hard continuously for that hour.  That is a general number like that you burn 100 calories per mile running. You can use it for a broad estimate of calories burned.  Granted if the water is 45 F or if you are very fast, you will burn more.  Or you can use a fancy calculator thing.


2009-03-25 10:08 AM
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I'd have to say no there isn't.  Other than using some personal HR and VO2 data to derivive your approx cal/yd value.

Swimming isn't like running where everyone burns close to the same calories per mile, proportional to weight, adjusted for course profile, with only a few percent variance due to running efficency.  In swimming it's all technique driven.  I can burn twice as many calories going half as far as a good swimmer.

 

2009-03-25 10:23 AM
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DanielG - 2009-03-25 10:12 AM Dunno how accurate but it's a more consistant number than pulling one out of your butt http://www.caloriesperhour.com/index_burn.php[/QUOTE]

I use 700 / hr. and this link was spot on that number for me.

2009-03-25 10:50 AM
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My 640 was just a really braod stroke from a calorie calculator I use for fun to track all calories burned.  The catagory is vigorous swimming and it is not based on distance, but time.  I am sure the more specific ones are more accurate, but if one wants to just figure out really generically how many calories they burned in a continous 2 hour swim, 1300-1500 calories would be a generic guess without doing any sophisticated calculations. 
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