how many calories do you burn while swimming?
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“A 150-pound person will burn roughly 400 calories during an hour-long swim at a moderate pace and 700 at a vigorous one,” says Tom Holland (an exercise physiologist, triathlete, and founder of TeamHolland).
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Get Trim When You Swim: 5 Secrets to Burning More Calories in the Pool. Lap swimming already burns a respectable 476 calories per hour.
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Whether it's swimming, boogie boarding or kayaking, water activities can be a really fun way to burn calories. Even just leisurely swimming around the ocean for an hour can burn more than 300 calories. But add in some wave jumping and you can really boost that number.
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4th place: Breaststroke Average calorie burn: around 200 calories for 30 minutes swimming. Breaststroke is a much better cardiovascular workout than the other strokes. It helps strengthen heart and lungs while toning thighs, upper back, triceps, hamstrings and lower legs. It helps to work and tone the chest muscles.
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That's 150 to 280 calories for a 30 minute session, depending on your weight and speed. Doing the same swim in front crawl will burn 10% more calories. The amount of calories burned will depend on your weight, swimming stroke, time spent swimming and then to a lesser degree speed.
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Expect to burn between 400 and 500 calories per hour in a water aerobics class, according to the Aquatic Exercise Association. Try our exclusive water aerobics weight loss calculator and see how many calories you can burn and how much weight you can lose during pool workouts.
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Treading water vigorously burns about 11 calories per minute. This is equivalent to a six-mile-per-hour run. (Which would you rather do when temps are high?) Water provides continuous resistance, which engages more muscles through a larger range-of-motion.
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The number of calories you burn swimming will depend on your weight and the distance and speed you swim. A 150-pound (68kg) person swimming recreational backstroke will burn 344 calories per hour. A 200-pound (90.8kg) person swimming freestyle laps with vigorous effort will burn 935 calories per hour.
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Increased Endurance- Water polo players can swim upwards of 5 kilometers in a game. Weight Loss- Players can burn up to 700 calories per one hour of play. Improved Cardiovascular Health.
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Swimming vigorously for an hour burns around 800 calories. Do that four times a week, and you could lose three or four pounds in a month. (You need to burn 3,500 calories to lose one pound.)
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Swimming breaststroke will burn between 300 and 560 calories per hour. That's 150 to 280 calories for a 30 minute session, depending on your weight and speed. Doing the same swim in front crawl will burn 10% more calories.
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In deep water, tread as hard as possible for 30 seconds and then float on your back for 30 seconds. Do 30 sets of hard treading and burn nearly 300 calories.
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Vigorous riding — like in an intense spin class — burns 315–466 calories. This is an excellent cardiovascular exercise, which burns 300–444 calories per 30-minute session. Bonus: It's easy on your joints. So if you find other exercises wreak havoc on your knees, shoulders, etc., jump in the pool for a great workout.
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Water aerobics | 501 calories/hour Edging out the first major sport on this list: water aerobics. The pool exercise can burn as many as 501 calories per hour in a 200-pound person.
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A 130-pound person swimming freestyle for one hour will burn 590 calories swimming fast, and 413 calories swimming slower. A 155-pound person swimming freestyle for one hour will burn 704 calories swimming fast, and 493 calories swimming slower.
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The table below lists the approximate calories burned per hour for a person weighing 150 pounds: Swimming moderate effort 272 calories. Swimming ocean, river, lake 408 calories. Swimming none-lap, leisure 408 calories.
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Swimming butterfly 748 calories. Swimming crawl/freestyle, vigorous effort, fast 748 calories.