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Where did you get your heart-rate monitor? What brand?.. details I want the details.. 
airsix:
Please get in shape!
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Swimming and being in shape are very, very different issues.
My son-in-law is in very good shape. He was a wrestler in high school and college and is one of the people that struggled with the OW swim and water tread tests. In fact, he is so negatively bouyant, that I saw him sink with a three mm suiit with his lungs full of air. He just completed the PADI rescue diver class and did well. Again, a 3 mm suit and a weight belt with NO weight on it. His buddy had considerable problems keeping him at the surface during the uncoscious victime scenario because without his bc, he kept sinking. He is a skinny guy in very good shape that cannot swim well, but is a very good diver. When I dive with him, I worry much less than when diving with my wife and daughter, who are excellent swimmers, very good divers and in excellent shape (my daughter trains for marathon runs, and my wife jogs regularly). I'm also a poor swimmer, but in good shape, not from exercise, but from hard physical labor (roofing, etc) but do not swim all that well. I worked hard to pass the PADI Divemaster stamina tests and consider myself an accomplished diver, though not a good swimmer, and I'm not obese and way out of shape. I carry my gear and my wife's to where we need it and I'm in my 50's.
I read once that comparing swimming and diving was like comparing a marathon run with a walk through a museum. Swimmng and diving don't connect. Comfort in the water and diving do connect, but it's no the same.
OK. I'll shut up now. Someone pass the popcorn.
Mike
My son-in-law is in very good shape. He was a wrestler in high school and college and is one of the people that struggled with the OW swim and water tread tests. In fact, he is so negatively bouyant, that I saw him sink with a three mm suiit with his lungs full of air. He just completed the PADI rescue diver class and did well. Again, a 3 mm suit and a weight belt with NO weight on it. His buddy had considerable problems keeping him at the surface during the uncoscious victime scenario because without his bc, he kept sinking. He is a skinny guy in very good shape that cannot swim well, but is a very good diver. When I dive with him, I worry much less than when diving with my wife and daughter, who are excellent swimmers, very good divers and in excellent shape (my daughter trains for marathon runs, and my wife jogs regularly). I'm also a poor swimmer, but in good shape, not from exercise, but from hard physical labor (roofing, etc) but do not swim all that well. I worked hard to pass the PADI Divemaster stamina tests and consider myself an accomplished diver, though not a good swimmer, and I'm not obese and way out of shape. I carry my gear and my wife's to where we need it and I'm in my 50's.
I read once that comparing swimming and diving was like comparing a marathon run with a walk through a museum. Swimmng and diving don't connect. Comfort in the water and diving do connect, but it's no the same.
OK. I'll shut up now. Someone pass the popcorn.
Mike
fishoutawater
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For those of you interested, here's a shameless plug for my other favorite website:
http://www.crossfit.com/
It's a general no nonsense fitness regime that really works. They have what they call a Workout Of the Day, or WOD. Everyday there's a different workout. Some days it's mostly cardio, others it's strength, and still others a combination.
Like airsix, I have a desk job, and was in really poor shape. Started bicycling first and that helped, but when I discovered Crossfit and started following their methods, my fitness skyrocketed. At 46, I can out perform a lot of 20 year olds at many things, including swimming.
A lot of folks there are soldiers, special forces, cops, firemen, etc. People whose lives depend upon fitness. And they also happen to be really nice folks. Stop in, have a look see.
http://www.crossfit.com/
It's a general no nonsense fitness regime that really works. They have what they call a Workout Of the Day, or WOD. Everyday there's a different workout. Some days it's mostly cardio, others it's strength, and still others a combination.
Like airsix, I have a desk job, and was in really poor shape. Started bicycling first and that helped, but when I discovered Crossfit and started following their methods, my fitness skyrocketed. At 46, I can out perform a lot of 20 year olds at many things, including swimming.
A lot of folks there are soldiers, special forces, cops, firemen, etc. People whose lives depend upon fitness. And they also happen to be really nice folks. Stop in, have a look see.
Dragon2115
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I read the thread being referrenced with regard to people thinking they're too out of shape for the 200 yard/meter swim. This is more nerves talking than anything else. They don't really know what to expect so they envision standing on one end of a pool and seeing some flyspeck of a person some ungodly distance away and thinking they have to swim it like Mark Spitz. All the while they don't realize that a mannatee can swim 200 yards. Might take awhile, but technically it would still pass the requirement.
As for being in good shape over all, sure, why not? It's not like being in better shape is a bad thing.
Now somebody pass me the twinkies and the chocolate milk.
As for being in good shape over all, sure, why not? It's not like being in better shape is a bad thing.
Now somebody pass me the twinkies and the chocolate milk.
kabluton
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LOL. I have to share some of my experiences with overweight divers on this thread. In my OW class 3 years ago there was an overweight guy (about 350 lbs.) in the class. He couldn't swim the required laps and couldn't tread water. He was severely out of shape. Guess what? They let him go through the class because he had already bought about $400 worth of equipment from the dive shop. Cha-ching$$$$$
On one of my recent trips there was a 400 lb woman that was part of our dive group. Not only was she overweight but she has asthma. I would think both those conditions are contraindicators to dive. It actually took close to 40lbs of weight to get her to sink. This was warm water mind you and not a thick wetsuit. :jump013:
On one of my recent trips there was a 400 lb woman that was part of our dive group. Not only was she overweight but she has asthma. I would think both those conditions are contraindicators to dive. It actually took close to 40lbs of weight to get her to sink. This was warm water mind you and not a thick wetsuit. :jump013:
BrianS
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Man, and here I am crying about wearing 22 lbs of weight.
StSomewhere
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On land or underwater?
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