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Originally Posted by devinjohnson7
where is the static trainer?? that sounds good... mmmmm... tasty
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There is a bunch of them available. See the links here:
tables @ APNEA.cz
Never train tables alone in water. When telling alone, I mean without someone standing close to you, and regularly "clicking" your hand or tapping you on shoulder to get a response from you, and if not getting it, pulling you out of water.
Also, when diving alone anywhere, never push your limits anywhere even remotely close to where you learn to do in tables. If you get to 4 minutes in statics, it does not mean you could or should do 2 minutes active dives without very close supervision. The progress in statics comes basically thanks to three aspects:
1) ability to push further through the suffering phase, getting closer to the real physiological limits, hence decreasing the safety margin
2) better breathing and oxygen saving technique
3) physiological adaptation - likely the slowest and probably the less important of all three
It means that a significant part of the apnea time comes thanks to reducing the safety margin, not because of higher physiological limits. So actually learning to push to the limits may have fatal consequences for someone who is not aware of the risk, and dives alone using the same body signals as in training for surfacing.
Doing tables after physical work-out is not a big problem - you will just achieve shorter times than you would do after rest. But since the purpose of a training is not breaking personal records, but rather learning technique, increasing physical and physiological tolerance, and helping the physiological adaptation, it does not matter at all if your times are shorter than they could be.
