Which excercise is burn more calories Running or Swimming?

[jeffersonsam]

Which exercise is burn more calories very fast, running exercise or swimming exercise?

Running I’d say. When I’ve worn my Garmin it’s been running.

It depends what you're better at. It would definitely be running for me, as I'm a very good swimmer.

They're many ifs buts and maybes, but I'd expect it to be swimming overall.

Running is one of the lease efficent extercises you can do for burning calories - swimming you're always pushing against the water

You say fast running though, so I suppose that would probably burn more per minute - but how long can you keep it up?

I'm not sure if this a the most scientfifc mesure, but I know nothing makes me hungry like swimming! Even just half hour in the pool with the kids leaves me famished!

Depending on time and intensity. Swimming is full body work out with resistance . Running is cardio. So many variables

Running. Swimming theoretically burns more but you need to be swimming at a high intensity.

Running.

Typically people burn about 100 cals a mile when walking/ running. Running has the advantage as you can fit more miles into time, realistically 5-6 miles in an hour compared to 3-4 walking.

Swimming you can fit in about a mile in an hour. Recent hour long sessions (fast lane) have recorded at 318 & 405 calories on my HR watch. In that time, I could run 592 (10k race pace)

Logistical issues with swimming include time- travel to pool, changing and also many pools have very fixed sessions. I can't find anywhere locally where I can swim longer than an hour. Plus it's hard to plan a session because it depends on who turns up in that lane that session.

Ultimately both exercises are great and have their own benefits far beyond calorie burn and in the real world people do best with the exercise they enjoy the most.

Running. Unless you're swimming very, very, hard.

I'm a decent enough runner but I still burn near on 100 calories a mile, meaning around 800 calories an hour. I get nowhere near that when swimming.

Running for weight loss but if you want to be super toned and not get knee injuries adding a swim is beneficial.

A lot of people are crap at swimming and have poor technique so don't really use that many calories.

If you're a decent swimmer it's such a good work out.

However, I find swimming a lot more boring than running. I can run for hours but have had enough after about 30 mins swimming so you have to factor that in too.

@JauntyJinty

They're many ifs buts and maybes, but I'd expect it to be swimming overall.

Running is one of the lease efficent extercises you can do for burning calories - swimming you're always pushing against the water

You say fast running though, so I suppose that would probably burn more per minute - but how long can you keep it up?

I'm not sure if this a the most scientfifc mesure, but I know nothing makes me hungry like swimming! Even just half hour in the pool with the kids leaves me famished!

I also got the experience.....Swimming can make me more hungry. That's true.

Me: swimming for sure.

Agree swimming is a lot more boring, but I don't have to battle wind & rain or mud in the pool so there's that.

I suppose... relative to my peers, my swimming (~1.8km/50 minutes) IS much faster than my running (? 5mph). In (baby/sprint) triathlons my swim times are competitive against all age & my run times are embarrassing even within my (nearing geriatric) age group.

If you’re just doing slow lengths of breast stroke then running. If youre doing fast lengths of crawl or butterfly etc it’s using lots more calories. When I was training as a life guard they used to make us do three lengths of crawl, three backstroke and three breast stroke with a really short time limit. I was exhausted- yet had regularly been doing 100 lengths of breaststroke prior to the course.

Swimming is more efficient per hour in terms of calorie burnt as you are using your whole body if swimming properly. Pootling along doing breaststroke, not so much unless you are in the cold water this time of year.

Running for me by quite a margin, even an "easy" paced run would burn more calories than swimming for the same length of time.

RightNow I m doing slow lengths of breast stroke. Because I m beginner for swimming exercsie. I don't have idea to do fast lengths of breast stroke in a short time. I know this will surely makes me more exhausted.

Whichever gets your heart rate up highest for longest.

I like neither of those so will burn more lifting in the gym because I will actually do that 🤣.

Stop worrying about how many calories you burn! All those trackers are totally inaccurate anyway. Don't exercise for weight loss, do what you enjoy and if you want to lose weight look at your diet.

@lljkk

Me: swimming for sure. Agree swimming is a lot more boring, but I don't have to battle wind & rain or mud in the pool so there's that.

I suppose... relative to my peers, my swimming (~1.8km/50 minutes) IS much faster than my running (? 5mph). In (baby/sprint) triathlons my swim times are competitive against all age & my run times are embarrassing even within my (nearing geriatric) age group.

This post made me chuckle, I swim in a lake and Sunday in the wind was bloody hard.

I do often wonder if the cold adds to to calorie count. I only did a short dip yesterday 200m but swam skins. The watch said 150 cal but it was 6 degrees and I’m sure the warning up process will have added to that.

For most of us, running (or jogging or mixing jogging and walking, eg couch to 5K).

For strong and fast swimmers it’ll be different.

Weight loss is mainly food though.

Swimming for me cos I swim fast crawl (3km in 52 minutes) and I HATE running so never go...!

I combine swimming and Jilian Michaels DVDs and can see the difference physically

Swimming again for me I think because I do about 2.5km in an hour and that burns a decent amount of calories (and I'll never go running!). If you can run you're likely to do better with that vs slow breaststroke. On days when I go with a friend to the pool for swim and chat I burn about 150 calories in half an hour which is much lower than the 600 calories an hour ish I can do at a decent pace. If I could do 10k running in an hour that would be similar but I can't so it's not !