Calories Lost During Water Jogging

Water jogging is a low-impact aerobic sport. This makes it ideally suited to people recovering from injuries, overweight individuals and anyone else who wants to minimize the stress on their joints. If you're looking to lose weight, water jogging is also a big calorie burner. Your personal calorie burn will vary with your weight.

  1. The 125-Pound Jogger

    • A 125 pound person will burn an additional 7 calories per minute when water jogging compared to when she is at rest. Over the course of an hour, that adds up to 399 calories burned. When you factor in the number of calories that the human body uses for basic biological functions that increases the hourly calorie burn to 456 calories.

    At 175 Pounds

    • The more you weigh, the more calories you will burn from water jogging -- or any other activity. A heavier, 175-pound person will burn about 9 additional calories per minute when aqua jogging. In an hour this adds up to 557 calories. When you factor in the resting metabolic rate a 175-pound person burns 11 calories per minute, which works out to 636 calories an hour.

    Weighing 225 Pounds

    • Your calorie burn will continue to increase with your weight. At 225 pounds you will burn an extra 12 calories per minute with water jogging. This may seem like just a slight increase, but over the course of an hour it adds up to an impressive 718 calories. The total energy expenditure from water jogging, including resting calories, is 14 calories per minute. This adds up to a whopping 820 calories in one hour.

    Everybody Else

    • If you don't happen to weigh 125, 175 or 225 pounds you can calculate your personal calorie burn based on the metabolic equivalent value of water jogging. The formula is simply the MET value of water jogging -- which is 8.0 -- multiplied by your weight in kilograms to get your total hourly calorie burn. To convert your weight in pounds to kilograms, divide it by 2.2. For instance, if you weigh 190 pounds, or 86 kilograms you would multiply 86 by 8.0 to give you a total hourly calorie burn of 688.