lowlysubaruguy
Contributor
I’m an air hog always have been. I’m about 200 dives in now, I do a number of things pre dive which has helped I do a yoga breathing exercise about a month before a dive trip and try to swim as much as possible as well.
I’m pretty healthy but I don’t work out, I do see quite a bit if physical activity but my job and life are pretty stressful to understate things there just getting things in order to leave is enough of a contribution to it that it’s probably a big factor.
Three other factors
My left legs muscles and both knees have issues my leg will never heal it’s been since 2000 I run with a gimp but you’d never know I have an issue here from any other activity.
I have been through two rounds of radiation to me left chest and quite a bit of that was near the lung on that side along with a lengthy dose of chemotherapy
And something I discovered over the summer is breathing through a mask for a period of time causes me to breathe harder. I painted inside and out of three buildings and two cars this summer. All using new respirator masks. Low restriction and the right masks for each paint. What I figured out was that 30 minutes in my breathing was much more labored. To the point I wonder if this isn’t occurring when diving and contributing to my air usage. The question of which is what’s the actual cause. Is it a mental thing, is breathing through something mentally messing with my air usage is one one my lungs less effective or something else. I do not think it is the physical activity I was performing because none of these tasks are any more demanding than a lot of my daily routine.
Ive managed my air consumption well enough. I use HP 100s and i dive with a few very experienced divers and am quite often close to the same consumption as them but my problem lies in low fills and smaller rental tanks when traveling I’d like to get five more minutes of bottom time. I believe a little actual exercise would help but I’ve dove with some really out of shape smokers that used less air than me so it’s more than that.
I’m pretty healthy but I don’t work out, I do see quite a bit if physical activity but my job and life are pretty stressful to understate things there just getting things in order to leave is enough of a contribution to it that it’s probably a big factor.
Three other factors
My left legs muscles and both knees have issues my leg will never heal it’s been since 2000 I run with a gimp but you’d never know I have an issue here from any other activity.
I have been through two rounds of radiation to me left chest and quite a bit of that was near the lung on that side along with a lengthy dose of chemotherapy
And something I discovered over the summer is breathing through a mask for a period of time causes me to breathe harder. I painted inside and out of three buildings and two cars this summer. All using new respirator masks. Low restriction and the right masks for each paint. What I figured out was that 30 minutes in my breathing was much more labored. To the point I wonder if this isn’t occurring when diving and contributing to my air usage. The question of which is what’s the actual cause. Is it a mental thing, is breathing through something mentally messing with my air usage is one one my lungs less effective or something else. I do not think it is the physical activity I was performing because none of these tasks are any more demanding than a lot of my daily routine.
Ive managed my air consumption well enough. I use HP 100s and i dive with a few very experienced divers and am quite often close to the same consumption as them but my problem lies in low fills and smaller rental tanks when traveling I’d like to get five more minutes of bottom time. I believe a little actual exercise would help but I’ve dove with some really out of shape smokers that used less air than me so it’s more than that.