How important is your physical fitness when it comes to Diving?

Our resident expert!Do you have to be a super fit, lean mean diving machine? - absolutely! NOT.

Should you be in good general health and does improved fitness really impact your diving? Well, the answer to both is an unsuprising - YES

A more appropriate question might be, what is right for me and what sorts of benefits will I gain by improving my physical condition. Of course there are the usual benefits accrued by improving general fitness but also there are others that perhaps you are not aware of.

Keeping FitIn this article we will explore some of them presented as a 'general read' but also offer a (free) subscription to our periodic newsletter which explores these aspects in more detail and also describes specific exercises that are focussed upon helping you get the most from your diving.

Some realities.

Keeping Fit You might be like me (in the middle realm - which my kids refer to as ancient!), you may be retired and of course you may be quite a bit younger, 20 something, quite fit, which of course all the rest of us were - once!

The point is that Diving per se is not really an age thing. You can dive no matter how old you are, PROVIDING you maintain a good level of overall fitness appropriate to the type of diving you engage in.

So the message is that to be a safe diver, be a reasonably fit diver. That way you are sure to get the best out of your diving adventures!