How Many calories for Swimming?
Birdhouse
of seasons now, and still have not figured out how many calories
that a person burns while swimming. It seems that
the harder that you swim, logically the more calories you
would burn, but some stuff i have read says it is the
time, or the distance that makes the difference. Is there
an amount that you burn while doing say, 100 yards, similarly
to figuring out how many calories are spent for running?
Tony
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Anthony Edward Berwald
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Ray Plotecia, Image Control
> I have been competing in triathlon for a couple
> of seasons now, and still have not figured out how many calories
> that a person burns while swimming.
If you can find one, buy "Dave Scott's Triathlon Training" that came out in 1986. (Simon and
Schuster)
It contains a load of information including a table of calories burned swimming, cycling, and
running by body weight and pace.
swimming a 22 min mile goes from 13 to 22 calories per minute for body weight from 100 to 240
pounds. You should be able to interpolate with this info. The increase is linear.
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Fredrik Olsson
>I have been competing in triathlon for a couple
>of seasons now, and still have not figured out how many calories
>that a person burns while swimming.
I have been swiming for appr 10 years. I used to count that I burned
around 2000 kJ for a one hour swim
/Fredrik Olsson, Sweden