An interrupted swim session still netted a near 300 calorie burn

So you remember how I am so enamored by the effective nature of swimming on the caloric burn right? Well today I am going to talk about it even more.

I am not a terribly important person, but on this particular day I was on call for a really important deadline that one of the companies that I work for on contract. I needed to be available to them for 12 hours in a row no matter what. Don't worry, I am compensated very fairly for this and it doesn't happen very often. Well it can prove a bit difficult to get messages when you are underwater so on this day I asked the lifeguard if I could leave my phone with him and if it rings to interrupt my swim session.

I would never do this normally but he was cool with it and no, I am not going to make a habit of this because I was embarrassed to even ask this question.

So about 16 minutes into my 30 minute pool lap-session I see the lifeguard waving his arms at me at the end of the pool and sure enough, the office was calling me.

I had to cut my session short and even called them while I was in the pool. I received a bit of a reprimand for this because they don't allow phones in the pool area but I assured them that this was a one-off. Haha, I felt like a doctor or something but honestly, after talking in the pool for a couple of minutes I knew I need to get out and get moving to help these people out with a deadline.

3 Minutes of that were spent standing in the corner on the phone so they don't even count. I switched off my fitness tracker watch after the call was finished and was kind of delighted to see that from just 15 minutes of swimming, and not in an intense way, burned nearly 300 calories.

Isn't swimming the best? I wasn't even pushing it either.

This is not entirely accurate because I was definitely NOT moving during the last 3 minutes or so but whatever, I like that I have this data. Now, I don't think that 100 meters in 4.5 minutes is fast by any professional standard because it is a pretty relaxed pace for me as well. I do breast-strike because it is the easiest for me and just by luck, it also happens to be the 2nd highest stroke to do for caloric burn as well. Lucky me!

So if you can afford it or have access to a body of water in your life (and you are fitness oriented) I really think that you should try out swimming. For me, it is the least impactful as far as how much it hurts you after the fact such as running hurting your knees or riding a bicycle hurting your butt is concerned at what not.

Actually, the only real complaint I have about swimming is my neck and that is purely because I choose to do breast-stroke. It could be alleviated if I mixed it up and did some freestyle but I dont' wanna!

My monthly membership to this pool will be expiring soon but even though it is quite expensive in relative terms, I think I may actually renew it. It is seriously easy for me to get motivated to go swimming on a hot day whereas getting motivated to do a run when I know I am going to sweat like mad kind of takes a lot of psyching myself up to get going in the first place.