Diving

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Is Freediving Good for Cardio?

Freediving is good exercise for building overall fitness, boosting lung function, and burning plenty of calories. It makes your body use oxygen more efficiently and can also improve your focus, concentration and mental resilience. It’s not an obvious form of cardio exercise. If you’re specifically seeking to increase cardiovascular exercise levels, you might try walking, …

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Flying After Freediving | All you need to know  

Flying after freediving should be considered carefully. You should plan a suitable waiting period before getting on a plane, depending on the length, depth and number of dives you’ve undertaken. A dive computer with freediving mode may help you to keep track of dissolved nitrogen levels in your bloodstream. Recommended waiting periods vary from 2-24 …

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Can Freediving Help You Lose Weight? 

Freediving is great exercise for general physical and mental fitness. It burns high numbers of calories due to the energetic cost of maintaining body temperature in open water as well as the aerobic and anaerobic activities involved. Overweight but otherwise healthy individuals can freedive recreationally with the usual necessary training and preparation. Anyone with heart, …

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Is Freediving Good For Your Lungs?

If you’re healthy, well-trained and following good practice, freediving can be good for your lungs. There are a range of systematic techniques and training exercises aimed at enhancing lung function in freedivers. Those with pre-existing lung conditions should consult a doctor if they’re thinking of taking up freediving. With good training and proper practice, freediving …

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Is Freediving Aerobic or Anaerobic?

Freediving can be both aerobic and anaerobic at different points, and in different parts of the body. Attempting to classify freediving as completely aerobic or anaerobic is not a useful exercise either for freedivers wanting to boost performance or for scientists wanting to study it. Exploring the different physiological changes and impacts of freediving or …

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