I'm under the impression that strength training that leads to extensive muscle development could be detrimental to air consumption, as if the muscles are not essential to the act of diving, then all they do is needlessly use oxygen.
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I'm under the impression that strength training that leads to extensive muscle development could be detrimental to air consumption, as if the muscles are not essential to the act of diving, then all they do is needlessly use oxygen.
SwimmingThanks. I am doing squads, dead lifts and rows (and lunges, side chops, mountain climbers, core crawl and push ups) for my strength routines, so that seems to be covered. But what would be "good aerobic" for diving? Obviously a descent general aerobic fitness level is a good thing, but how (if at all) can you optimize it for diving?
So far, the trainers I have spoken to, are very good in optimizing for common goals (running, cycling, swimming, weight loss for example) but know very little about diving. It seems to be an unusual request (or I haven't talked to the right trainer yet), or maybe there simply isn't a specific way and variety is the best way to go. After all, the very best way would be to dive all day every day (unfortunately not an option for me at the moment)
One thing that you have to account for as well is age related muscle loss. After age 40-50 you will start losing muscle mass and that can be aggravated by excessive cardio. I've always thought of it like Strength training > more towards anabolic, Cardio training > more towards catabolic. Muscle mass is hard to maintain doing only cardio. I personally think that trim has a lot more to do with my oxygen consumption than the slight increases in muscle mass.I'm under the impression that strength training that leads to extensive muscle development could be detrimental to air consumption, as if the muscles are not essential to the act of diving, then all they do is needlessly use oxygen.
I'm under the impression that strength training that leads to extensive muscle development could be detrimental to air consumption, as if the muscles are not essential to the act of diving, then all they do is needlessly use oxygen.
Swim!
You aren't going to get any level of accuracy by using external factors. Everything you can come up with would simply be overwhelmed by variances in how hard you work from dive to dive.and I have a question?
is any software out there to calculate calories burn ? With more accurate info
Considering time, bottom time , water temperature , weight and any other facts?