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A very important question to the pros. How often you exercise? Do you exercise before or after your dives like doing strength traning and cardio? I read when you exercise right after a dive, it might increase the chances of bubble formation from the residual nitrogen in your body. When you're doing 4 dives a day, 7 days a week how do you find the right time to keep fit.


Contradictory opinions?

Can exercise before diving prevent decompression sickness?

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/index.php?newsid=6468

Nowadays, scuba diving involves millions of people worldwide. Decompression sickness following diving is initiated by the formation of gas bubbles in tissue and blood.

The most common decompression related problem in sports divers is injury of the central nervous system, the risk of which is higher with increasing number of bubbles.

Preventive measures to reduce the risk of decompression sickness include breathing oxygen and reducing decompression speed.

Following recent findings on rats, our research group from the University of Split School of Medicine, and colleagues from Norway published in Journal of Physiology a simple non-pharmacological procedure for decreasing bubble formation.

In healthy divers we showed that a single bout of strenuous exercise 24 hours before a simulated dive significantly reduced the number of bubbles in the pulmonary artery compared to dives without preceding exercise.

This finding may form the basis for a novel approach for preventing serious decompression sickness.

When Is It Safe to Exercise After Diving?

http://www.scubadiving.com/training/your_body/is_it_safe_to_exercise_after_diving?/

Will the residual nitrogen in my system from a dive affect my cardiovascular system when I do an aerobic workout the next day?
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We get asked this question a lot, especially from dedicated runners, swimmers, hikers and gym rats. It takes about 24 hours to eliminate residual nitrogen from your body. There is some debate about whether exercise, especially strenuous activities such as running or mountain climbing, is risky during that period of time. Those who advise divers not to exercise immediately after diving say that it might increase the chances of bubble formation from residual nitrogen levels.

The research on exercise after diving can be contradictory. There are some inconclusive reports that point to physical stress as the cause of DCS in some divers who exercise after diving. But there is also evidence that exercising while decompressing is helpful in reducing decompression accidents.