Totally spaced out on my swim today. My brain was just totally on vacation. I didn’t realize anything until another dude walked up and was like “are you ok? You’ve been swimming nonstop for 2hours…” has this ever happened to you? 
How’s you only burn 544 calories? Are you super fit?
Wilder said:
How’s you only burn 544 calories? Are you super fit?
Yes I was a collegiate athlete. I am also only 108 lbs so there’s that.
Wilder said:
How’s you only burn 544 calories? Are you super fit?
Yes I was a collegiate athlete. I am also only 108 lbs so there’s that.
Awesome! I asked because I burned 919 in 50 mins with a lower heart rate. So results were not intuitive!
Wilder said:
How’s you only burn 544 calories? Are you super fit?
Yes I was a collegiate athlete. I am also only 108 lbs so there’s that.
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Sidney said:
Wilder said:
How’s you only burn 544 calories? Are you super fit?
Yes I was a collegiate athlete. I am also only 108 lbs so there’s that.
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I don’t think commenting on other people’s body weight is very appropriate, even if the intention is harmless. This topic has kind of been beat to death in the world of athletics.
@Sidney
You are right, I’m sorry for saying that, I’ll delete it
Sidney said:
Wilder said:
How’s you only burn 544 calories? Are you super fit?
Yes I was a collegiate athlete. I am also only 108 lbs so there’s that.
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OP is female.
@Niko
My apologies, my intention was harmless, but I probably shouldn’t have posted that comment in the first place, it has been deleted now
Wilder said:
How’s you only burn 544 calories? Are you super fit?
Can someone explain to me about this? I noticed that compared to running, swimming seems much harder but it seems to burn so little calories. For someone who is trying to lose weight is swimming a good exercise?
@Jordy
Op is a monster! She was a d1 athlete and weighs like 100lbs. I’m old (m 6’3 230) and burned over 900 calories in 50 mins with a lower heart rate today. It sounds like weight is the key variable here as another comment noted.
Wilder said:
How’s you only burn 544 calories? Are you super fit?
I don’t think being fit makes you burn less calories, probably just fairly light
@Raven
I think it might be tracking wrong because of heart rate or something like that. I would expect calories burnt to become more because you’re able to make greater distances in the same time so more work is being done. Unless your technique is getting better and therefore you have to do less work for greater distances but I wouldn’t classify that under fitness just technique/skill. So it might be your technique getting better reducing calorie count, as more fitness generally means more calories burnt because of extra work you can do and maybe even more muscle mass.
Wilder said:
How’s you only burn 544 calories? Are you super fit?
Their 100 pace was also extremely slow (no judgement), I think that had something to do with it
@Milo
This is my pace for the marathon swim. In most races I competed in (albeit a few years ago) I always placed top 3 for my age group and gender. The races were pretty small, but 2:10/yd is definitely not slow for a marathon lol.
@Milo
Not OP, but I can answer from the perspective of a male former college swimmer. I’d be aiming for a 1:40/100y pace or better for a 5k open water swim. That would be a fairly comfortable pace for me. I would not expect this to be close to podium for any bigger races, but could do very well in small or casual races. As a training pace in the pool, I’d try to be pushing 1:20/100y or better. For a big swim reference, I like to compare against the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim (4.4 mile/600 racers). A 1:40/100y pace would be about a 29:20 mile pace. In 2022, this would place 113th overall, 85th for males, or 29th for females. 1st place overall was going 20:35 mile pace or 1:10.1/100y. 1st female overall is going 20:42 mile pace or 1:10.5/100y.
@Milo
Doesn’t sound like this was open water. I’m pretty slow and average around 1:55 / 100 over 3,000 yards in the pool. Open water is a different beast.
@Milo
I don’t know, but over the summer I swam 2500 yards consecutively at a sub 1:20 100 pace going completely easy. I don’t even know if I could even do 50 yards in a minute because for me, as a former collegiate distance swimmer, that’s difficult to do with my level of technique to go that slow.
@Ridley
Ok? Good for you? Calling me slow and then saying (no offense) doesn’t make it any less offensive. We’re all at different levels here dude. The point of this subreddit isn’t to run around and put people down just because they swim slower than you. Kind of a dick move.
@Sidney
They were wondering how you only burned 544 calories and I provided a theory, and then I was asked what a faster pace would be so I gave my insight. I wasn’t even talking to you.