I've just entered my first freediving competition, this year in May.
The weekend before, some friends from work are off on a SCUBA trip, and want me to come along. I'm wondering if this is a good idea
A lot of the training I'm doing at the moment revolves around conditioning the body to tolerate increased CO2 / decreased O2.
Isn't SCUBA a reversal of this? If I do a dive to 10 metres, then my Oxygen partial pressure has doubled. If I was breathing Nitrox, I'd have even more oxygen for my blood cells to enjoy.
I just wonder if the conditioning effect of my training will be undone to some extent.
Has anyone else found that SCUBA has had a detrimental effect on breatholding?
Needless to say, I don't freedive after SCUBA on the same day....
The weekend before, some friends from work are off on a SCUBA trip, and want me to come along. I'm wondering if this is a good idea
A lot of the training I'm doing at the moment revolves around conditioning the body to tolerate increased CO2 / decreased O2.
Isn't SCUBA a reversal of this? If I do a dive to 10 metres, then my Oxygen partial pressure has doubled. If I was breathing Nitrox, I'd have even more oxygen for my blood cells to enjoy.
I just wonder if the conditioning effect of my training will be undone to some extent.
Has anyone else found that SCUBA has had a detrimental effect on breatholding?
Needless to say, I don't freedive after SCUBA on the same day....