One thing no one has mentioned is related to your dive profiles. I didn't see the type of profiles you are diving but I find that encorporating deep stops into my diving helps with headaches that can develop from multiple dives over multiple days. Correct me if I am wrong here someone, but as I understand it, if you are not managing deco effeciently, small microbubbles can block the smallest portions of capillaries in your brain, causing less effecient oxygen transportion to your brain, leading to headaches. Anyone have some more information on this? I do know that since I have encorporated deepstops into my diving (ala' GUE style) I have yet to have a recurrence of this type of headache. Previous to this, I have been very careful to manage my ascent rates, but this has helped me. Thoughts here?
Lowered my SAC, got a free headache
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Microbubble stops can be useful, but the important thing is to be able to understand how off gassing works and not to do more damage than good. Understand where your gas transit point is, ascending to that point at the proper rate (not too slow, not too fast), where to do your first stop, etc.
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It's probably not deco related. The dive that I got a headache on was my only dive of the day, max depth 65 ft, average 35 ft, time 44 minutes. There was a safety stop and a slow ascent overall as we went upslope towards shore.
You guys can keep your mandatory deco, rebreathers, and wreck reels. I'm satisfied with pretty fish in shallow water.
You guys can keep your mandatory deco, rebreathers, and wreck reels. I'm satisfied with pretty fish in shallow water.
I generally correlate loss of weight with fitness. I realize that many confuse fitness with bulking up. I, just as an example, now weigh 185 pounds and I am 5-11. When I was running marathons, 10Ks and triathlons I weighed 162 pounds and sometimes 156 pounds. I was much more fit and had a body fat percentage of about 2%. And trust me this, I had a much lower SAC then than now. My resting heart rate was in the 40s and now it is in the 70s. Good aerobic fitness will reduce your SAC especially when your body is performing at normal levels of effort. Of course, highly trained athletes can also BURN a lot of air at high effort so it is a double edged sword.
AEROBIC fitness does NOT equal bulk and bulked up men are not always very fit or even efficient in any manner.
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AEROBIC fitness does NOT equal bulk and bulked up men are not always very fit or even efficient in any manner.
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