how many calories can u burn swimming?
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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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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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According to Harvard Medical School, a 125-pound person will burn about 180 calories in 30 minutes of leisure swimming. People who weigh 155 pounds will burn around 223 calories, and at 185 pounds a casual swimmer will burn about 266 calories during that half hour of swimming.
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Per hour, lifting weights burns around 365 calories for a 160-pound person and 545 calories for a 240-pound person, according to the Mayo Clinic. The same 160-pound person would burn 423 calories swimming, 606 calories running at 5 miles per hour and 861 calories running at 8 miles per hour.
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You can burn up to 300 or 400 calories depending on your speed and weight. You can break this workout into two sessions of 30 minutes if you can't set aside a continuous hour.
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A general rule of thumb that is used for other young athletes is 10 calories burned per minute of intense exercise (consistent rowing, swimming, running, etc). So, a 60-minute session of continuous rowing would burn roughly 600 calories.
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Torches calories Swimming is an efficient way to burn calories. A 160-pound person burns approximately 423 calories an hour while swimming laps at a low or moderate pace. That same person may burn up to 715 calories an hour swimming at a more vigorous pace.
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At a typical casual pace, you'll burn about twice the calories you'd burn on a moderate paced walk (2.5 mph). You can burn 305 to 430 calories leisurely paddling in an hour.
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But aqua jogging can burn over 11 calories a minute, giving you a better workout. The extra pressure of the water on your legs also pushes more blood back up into the top half of your body.
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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.
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For example, a 150-pound athlete burns about 272 calories by swimming 1500 yards in 30 minutes; swimming butterfly for 30 minutes burns 38 percent more calories, breaststroke burns 25 percent more and backstroke 12 percent less.
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Swimming burns more calories than walking and almost as many as jogging. It's true—a 154-pound person burns 255 calories for a half hour of slow pool strokes, versus 140 calories for the same amount of time spent walking and 295 for jogging.
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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.
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The rate at which you swim is highly correlated to your caloric burn per unit of time. For example, research from the American College of Sports Medicine estimates that a 155-pound person swimming freestyle fast for one hour will burn 704 calories, but only 493 calories swimming slowly.
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Harvard Health Publications reports that a 155-pound person burns 520 calories per hour biking at a moderate pace, 670 calories per hour using an elliptical machine and 818 calories in one hour swimming the crawl stroke or running at a pace of 6.7 miles per hour.
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Simply treading water in a pool burns 11 calories per minutes; that's the same as running six-miles-per-hour.
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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.