Diving workout

[Groovekitty]

DRE,

Good luck on your orals!!!!

I have been doing a diving specific work out for the past 8-9 weeks (got it online). It's a six day a week workout schedule with cardio 4-5 times a week and weights 2 times a week.

Cardio, is cardio, is cardio - whatever you do is good.

For weights I recommend Body Pump. It's taught at almost every gym nation wide (I take it at the Uptown YWCA and have taken it in San Francisco). It's a killer class that is an hour long. It's a full body free weight workout. It's better than any weight workout I've ever done. Just to give you an idea, it begins with a 4 minute warm up and then launches into about six minutes of barbell enhanced squats totalling about 130. Needless to say you might have a little trouble walking for a few days after your first class.

I started it last year in february, and am proud to say that by spring I could lift a steel 95 with about 20lbs of lead on it like a feather - ok, maybe not a feather but it was definitely easier. Now I can pretty comfortable lift a set of steel 104's -not bad for a groovekitty!

Also, the cario helps with the hike down to the Madiera! Plus if you've been in cave country you know you're gonna need some stamina and strength to get down to some of the springs - need I even mention Olson sink????

If you're not doing a workout program designed to enhance your diving, I would recomend starting one. It's all ties into the Holistic Hogarthian (H2) approach. Good physical fitness can only make diving safer, easier, and more fun, plus you look better in that neoprene - so just go for it!

Safe diving,
~groovekitty*