My HR monitor doesn’t work in the pool. I was wondering how many calories do you burn pool running at 60 min at a steady pace.
Take your weight minus it by 60 then x it by 4 and add 20 for every minute pool running
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My HR monitor doesn’t work in the pool. I was wondering how many calories do you burn pool running at 60 min at a steady pace.
I wondered about this myself when I was doing a lot of this. I concluded it was about the equivalent of very slow run pace, i.e. running 10 min miles or 6 miles in an hour. At 6’2" and 175, I figure about 140 cal/mile of running or about 840 cal/hr of pool running.
I’m not sure but I’ve never seen a fat duck.
Deep Water Running is an excellent substitute for running and overall aerobic fitness. That said, it is much more difficult to ‘burn calories’ or ‘lose weight’ or lose fat in the water just like swimming since you are suspended and weightless in the water; your body does not have to work to bear its own weight. This is why running burns so many more calories than cycling at the same feel of exertion.
You’re burning way less calories than you think as Deep Water Running at a “steady pace” as defined by the equivalent land running feel burns about the same amount of calories as land walking.
You are immersed to your neck or shoulders in water, so your body does not have to work as hard to cool itself. At a “steady pace” you are not heating up and naturally sweating anything like you would be in land running at that equivalent exertion level.
To burn calories and have the same net aerobic fitness level as land running, you need to work very, VERY hard in the water during Deep Water Running. You need to be very inefficient in the water, water-wise, in that your exertion and movements will barely be propelling you forward. Duplicating your land running form (or actually trying to improve it by exaggerating it) in the water requires you to lift your knees higher (but without reaching out with your feet and overstriding) feeling the water resistance against your upper thighs, shins, and fronts of your feet, have a much more pronounced butt kick on your ‘backstroke’ maximizing the water resistance against your calves and heels, and work your arms in a good ‘running form’ motion not trying to propel yourself forward in the water, but feeling the added water resistance against the back of your forearms as you pull back.
You can exert yourself much harder in the water and for a much more extended period of time. Hard, 95% effort intervals can be extended up to 5 minutes with only 60 seconds recovery between work efforts as your body will recover much faster in the water. I’ve done 2 hour HARD efforts in the pool that I could never duplicate in land running. And I have actually improved my running speed and overall fitness level with these hard and long interval sessions. But I cannot attribute much body weight or even fat loss to it.
While Deep Water Running, if you are not feeling very hot and sweaty (even in relatively cold water) and have to wipe the sweat out of your eyes all the time, then you are not working hard enough to burn equivalent calories.
Things to maximize your fitness and calorie burning:
- Use an AquaJogger flotation belt to put you in the proper posture.
- Get some special Deep Water Running shoes (AQx Aquatic Training shoes) to maximize the water resistance of your feet and give you the best ‘land running form feel’.
- Use some Webbed Neoprene Gloves to maximize the water resistance of your hands and arms.
- Deep Water Run in as warm of water as possible–outside in the brightest sunshine and highest ambient temps if possible.
- Do hard, high-end aerobic intervals and don’t be afraid to do multiple anaerobic intervals with very short recoveries.
- No Speedo’s! Wear your baggiest and longest swim TRUNKS to increase the water resistance against your thighs and waist.
- Wear a Long Sleeve Rash Guard (aka sun protection surfing/swimming shirt) to increase the water resistance against your arms, shoulders, and torso. If you’ll be outside, make sure it’s black to absorb as much heat as in heat-you-up (and protect from UV) as possible.
- There are some great *Deep Water Running *guides and information online. With more than 1,000 hours of Deep Water Running under by (aqua)-belt, I’ve written some of them. Start by doing a *Slowtwitch *Forum Search: deep water running
Burning lots of calories can be done, but it’s very difficult. No one in the pool with you with understand what you are doing, and if you’re not working very hard as in passing-out-hard like in a hard roadie group ride, as you probably already know, Deep Water Running is incredibly boring.