Diet, Health and Wellness and Exercise

[anthropisces]

Please provide information about your diet and exercise regimes and discuss other health and wellness issues that you think might benefit others.

If you have struggled with any health challenges that affect your ability to free-dive, discuss how you manage or overcame issues.

I'll chime in once I see that there is interest in the thread

[KILLIAN]

Sometimes my feelings are hurt and thinking about mean things people said to me hurts my bottom time, so I deal with this by reading self help books just before I enter the water and then I repeat my mantra on all of my dives that day :-)

I'm a pretty pony I'm a pretty pony I'm a pretty pony!!!



anthro, don't start a thread and act nonchalant about commenting on a topic you brought up! if you got something to get off your chest let's hear it

[Thin man]

that was awesome!

[anthropisces]

Another thread, lost to Killian

[anthropisces]

Originally Posted by KILLIAN

Sometimes my feelings are hurt and thinking about mean things people said to me hurts my bottom time, so I deal with this by reading self help books just before I enter the water and then I repeat my mantra on all of my dives that day :-)

I'm a pretty pony I'm a pretty pony I'm a pretty pony!!!

anthro, don't start a thread and act nonchalant about commenting on a topic you brought up! if you got something to get off your chest let's hear it

You are a real f**ker . Maybe I just want to hear what people do to maintain good health and vigor

[KILLIAN]

Cycling at night with a buddy and I also work on my feet so I Co we lots of ground walking. Other than that I use a foam roller to crack my back when needed.

E tu?

[sacha58]

I'll respond to the topic when I know the answer......

[jackpine savage]

I like to eat 6 to 8 Twinkies washed down by a couple of bottles of Fanta grape soda the night before a dive. Slim Jims are work too. I find that it gives me just the right amount of buoyancy. I also don't poop for at least 24 hours prior to a dive. This is for free diving. Obviously scuba would be a different regimen.

[hogphish]

OK, I will respond in a serious fashion. The key to freediving and most other strenuous pursuits is the integrity of your cardiovascular system, specifically your vascular endothelium. Some of you may have seen my youtube video so I apologize if I am repeating myself. High intensity interval training is the most efficient way to maintain a compliant vascular endothelium. This is painful and is probably the main reason many people don't do it. Once your vascular system is tuned in and responsive then you can build upon that with hypoxic cardio and breath hold tables. This will will facilitate your lactic acid tolerance, reset your chemoreceptors and stimulate further alveolar/capillary development in your lungs. There is much more to it than this and I am probably boring you so I will mention one more thing. Without proper diet (glycemic control) you will never receive maximum benefit from your exercise program. Insulin screws everything up and the SAD (standard American diet) is so bad that most of our insulin levels are chronically sky high....that sends a bad signal to our cardiovascular system to store fat and glucose because we are in a constant feasting state. Finally we all know that there is no way to replicate depth training other than depth training. So you have to get in the water with an appropriately trained buddy and subject yourself to the barotrauma and adapt to it. OK flame away....

[KILLIAN]

Thanks hogphish!

So to repeat what you said in laymen terms for us lesser mind ed folks:

Eat twinkie directly from the freezer for textural reasons then work out your hyper thalium by eating food while watching a "SAD" movie.

And Never dive alone unless it's really shallow or your feeling really good that day?

Anthro....go get to work, now you know. Thread closed.

[Miamispear]

Wondering if the twinkies can be replaced with churros?

[KILLIAN]

Churros? Bro seriously??? Do you know how dangerous that is? Some kid could read that on the web and think it's safe to dive after eating a churro....jerk!!!

If you don't want to dive safe I suggest you find another forum to speak all that cinnamon sugar madness.

[Miamispear]

Haha! I guess I'll have to learn about safe diving and nutrition elsewhere....while I eat my churros.

[Miamispear]

And not pooping.

[jackpine savage]

Originally Posted by Miamispear

And not pooping.

That will attract some fish and definitely lobsters.