Combination static tables

[DivingDane]

hi guys

people are probably starting to get sick of all these quetions but, alot of improvement to be had and therefore alot of questions to ask.

have noticed people talking O2 and CO2 tables and understand what they do my question is can they be combined into 1 table to train with.

e.g. increasing apnea time and decreasing recovery time?

i know it can be done but is it safe and will it yield similar or better results than doing them individually, i'd be doing them with a training partner so i dont mind pushing it a bit harder than i would for a CO2 table.

thanks for all the advise

DD

[trux]

Well, it does not make a lot of sense doing it in this way, but of course you can try - the risk is not really increased - in fact you will still do a hypercapnic (CO2) table, just with a variable breath-hold time, so the increased CO2 level will still protect you against BO.

I am telling it makes little sense, because the variable apnea time and decreasing recovery time, means that you either start with too easy breath-holds (hence having no training effect), or end with too difficult ones (and you'll be forced to abandon). Well, is still may be possible to find some balance, but I believe plain CO2 table is more efficient. With a simple CO2 and O2 tables you can also watch your progress very easily, which may be more difficult with a table with two variables.

It may be also more difficult to handle the timing, if you are doing it wet and do not have a pre-programmed table on a PC, PDA, or a watch.

I rather recommend combining two tables after each other. There are many such training sessions with multiple tables available in the Apnea Training Manager (I believe you are registerd too). However, the full sessions, unlike plain exercises (tables) are available to regular accounts only (not the free ones).

Our club training sessions (1 hour) often consist of warm-up (exhale apneas, emtpy lung apneas), a hypercapnic table, and a hypoxic table.

[DivingDane]

Hi trux

thanks for the info, yep just joined recently as a free member at first might be worth just signing up as a standard member if so much training info is made available, i'll have to try the technique you discussed with statics and then tables etc.

i guess your right regarding the combined table if i start too easy there is no point, as far as the logistics of actually doing the table it would not be a problem, have a print out of the table on the pool side (dive slate maybe) and have the person doing the timing follow the table. jut use tap signals on the shoulder or similer to indicate time elapsed etc.

but if it is of little or no benefit in comparison to standard tables then i wont bother.

DD