synthetic wrote:
JasoninHalifax wrote:
1:02.4 if I include the last 35m
Thanks, that is what I was looking for, and nevertheless still impressive pace. As to guy who asked what this has to do with OWS.. well don't you see the occasional breast stroker at a tri? I wonder now how much they are taxing themselves doing this stroke, as most calorie burn calculators for different swim strokes, probably don't eliminate the pull out phase, which isn't that taxing.. thus breast stroke showing less amount of calories burned when compared to front crawl
If the breaststroker is working hard, then he/she can burn at least as many calories as when swimming freestyle, on an energy per time unit basis. OTOH, on a energy per distance unit, a hard 1500 m of breast would likely cost 25-50% more calories than the equivalent effort in a 1500 m freestyle, b/c breast is simply less efficient than freestyle. A 20 min 1500 m freestyle swimmer might need 30 min to do a 1500 m breast.
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