For young, healthy women doing water workouts, swimming at a steady, moderately hard pace for 30 minutes burns more total calories than doing short, super-intense bursts with rest in between—even though the bursts burn more per minute.

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Energy expenditure and EPOC between water-based high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training sessions in healthy women

Randomized Controlled Trial

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2018 Sep

The study found that even though the intense workout burned more calories per minute, the longer, steady workout burned more total calories because it lasted much longer.

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Energy expenditure and EPOC between water-based high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training sessions in healthy women

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DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2018.1435967

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For healthy young women, doing short, super-intense water workouts doesn’t burn more calories after exercise than steady, moderate water workouts — both burn about the same extra amount afterward.

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