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If you are expecting to decrease your air consumption by getting physically fit, I don't know if it will work. Unless you are a complete couch potato, I don't believe that getting fit will make much difference. Being good on air consumption means being comfortable in the water, having good skills, being properly weighted and having good buoyancy skills. My wife is really good on air consumption. She usually comes up from a dive with at least half a tank left. We talked to a dive master recently who was really good but he admitted not being great at using air. He said that he knew a guy who was amazing who was unfit and smokes like a chimney.
I think the secret weapon to air consumption is relaxing while you dive. I think that going into a near trance is probably the best thing you can do.
As for fitness, the important thing is to do a combination of weights that hit all the major muscle groups. You do not need to do them that much or work for mass. Just challenge the muscles. On aerobic fitness, you want something that works the major muscle groups like fast walking, cycling etc. The secret to exercise is to do it. The best exercise in the world will not help you a bit if you don't do it. If you stick with a less than perfect exercise schedule, that will do you far more good. So pick something that you will actually do instead of something you loathe doing. If you hate it, you will find excuses not to do it.