I am trying to figure out how many activity points I am going to earn today. I am going to swim today, but I am not sure at what intensity level swimming is considered. I plan on swimming consistent laps for at least 30 minutes. The points booster talks about sweating after xx amount of minutes, but when you are swimming, you don't know if you are sweating. Although, I know from past experience that you can get a really good workout from swimming.
Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, in advance!!! :)
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swimming for me is medium to high intensity. My suggestion, go get a heart rate monitor watch that is water resistant and wear it in the pool...every 5 minutes stop and take your heart rate.
Low intensity is 40-54 % of your max heart rate
medium is 55-69%
high is 70%+
Please be careful when using activity points. I started to get reliant on them to supplement my eating for the day, and I wasn't losing as much. I find that when I use activity as an overdraft protection it works much better. I think I need to stay under using 50% of my activity points earned. That will keep me losing at the level I want to be.
Remember your body needs a deficit of 3500 calories per day to burn 1 lb of fat...if you eat all of your activity points you may not see as much of a loss each week.
also, please take off the word verification for your comments...:)
here's a link to the HR monitor I bought:
http://www.walkingadvantage.com/products/proddetails.aspx?p=48
Thanks for the advice. I will definately look into the heart rate monitor. And also about using the activity points. I haven't been using them (unless I happen to go over by 1-2), then I count them. But that is really good advice, not to become reliant on using them.
Also, I removed the word verification... I was trying to prevent spam. Sorry for the inconvenience!
no problem...:) minor annoyance...I had them on intially too, but took them off after like a day. I think I've only gotten 1 spam comment in 3+ months. :)
Swimming will depend on what you do. For strictly kicking with the board, medium to low, however if you're doing your standard full body swim definitely high intensity. Don't forget to stretch (especially for swimming) before and after. Do the warm up as well.
I say especially with swimming, because sometimes the shock of the water temp can strain your muscles. Good luck.
REALLY good point. I didn't think about stretching, until I swam a couple of laps & felt the muscles pulling in my leg.
But overall, it was a really good workout.
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