Posts by ukpmel

The handbook says that for poor swimmers "the energy cost of simply treading water can be as high as 7.5 calories per kilogram of body weight per minute. Elite swimmers use this same number of calories per minute to swim at 36 miles per minute whereas an unskilled swimmer might require twice that energy expenditure to maintain the same velocity."

Someone's math is incorrect.  That means a 165 pound (73 kilo) person would burn up to 550 caloires per minute. 

I think the correct formula is in terms of hours...

Too bad that's incorrect, you could lose 9 lbs an hour in the pool.