Just a bit of fun..... Just found this online.... http://www.shape.com/blogs/shape-your-life/new-celebrity-fitness-trend-scuba-diving Clearly whoever wrote the article hasn't been down Stoney on an average weekend..... lean and toned.... really... where??? LOL
I lost nearly half a stone over that holiday, And I was quite noticeably fitter by the end of the first week. I've not graphed my blood pressure, but I have the numbers, and "by rack of eye" they show a similar trend. Keeping warm in even moderately cool water is a terrific burden on your system. Harry
Those pansy celebs should try a twinset! Any way what shit was the PADI spokesperson said...'you are BOYANT in the water', and that you are constantly moving. ! What would have the GUE rep said?!! C
LOL, i'm not disagreeing with the benefits..... it just makes me giggle to see the trim hot girl in a well fitted wetsuit advertising the healthy benefits of scuba diving as exercise.... in stark contrast to the reality of diving that I ever see..... If it was really that good, surely there'd be a lot more fitties out there and a few less fatties.... Just sayin' (not judging, just my personal observations)
How bad would the fatties be without diving to help, (examines own paunch with a critical eye).. Harry
Four years of diving for a living and me (and my husband) have put on weight, not lost it! What a load of codswallop
Just checked, the weight loss is not as high as I estimated, mainly because I was not as heavy as I had been when we left. (I was over 15 stone in September) 10 November before departure for Dahab I was 14 stone 10 lb 3 ozs 2 December, the day after I returned home I was 14 stone 7 lb 1 oz No upset stomach on the trip, and no stinting on the food either. Harry
Water too warm Shoka; 14-16 degrees in High season is NOT warm! Then you'd think we'd be sweating buckets 'tween dives, cos it's like a sauna! Nope, most (if not 99%) of our guests are a little on the chubby side , only the little Asian girlies are skinny
You know what they say..... A picture paints a thousand words!!!! (Oh come on, you can't blame a guy for trying!!) (Note, that's for the skinny girls, not the chubby guests.... honest!)
Frappawotsit, I don't tend to make a habit of photographing random girlies! (well, not that I'm gonna admit to, anyway)!! and, as I don't have a wide-angled lens, I cannot shoot the lardies either
Sorry guys but you all seem to have found what I have lost. Im bloody shrinking I may have to get my new drysuit made a tad smaller. I think its because I have to run around after my kids or ow students sort out coffees and bacon sarnies for instructors and so by the time ive done all that im in negative callories before ive even dived. (To be honest i have noticed the instructors offering to carry stuff for me but its usually the cake tin )
mmmmm,if ive lost a few hundred calories after a dive around Anglesey i would soon put them back on in the pub after with a few beers and grub
Craig: Try 2/3 dives a day in a modest wetsuit in water around 22 C over a three week period, add in three days in that suit, wet all day... Even gannets cannot keep up with the calorie burn. Divewench: Something does not add up here ... http://www.bigblueplanet.com/bbplocationdetail.jsp?LocationID=164&CleanDrag How deep are you going to find the 16 C water? Harry
Believe me Harry; in High season when all the punters want to look for Mola Mola, the water in Crystal Bay drops to bloody cold. Last dive we did in Crystal Bay (fun dive, no guests) was 14 degrees at 16 metres , needless to say we were back on the boat with a coffee after 14 minutes diving, after about 5 minutes of photographing the Mola. Looking at the statistics on Big Blue Planet, I think they need to recalculate the water temperatures for Bali. The surface can be warm (and the east coast dive sites) but the main, more extreme sites are fast moving cold current sites along the coast of Nusa Penida. I only wish it was as warm as the tables show!
Yep. Type ii. I've been able to avoid medication incompatible with diving. I'm not at risk of hypoglycaemia on the medications I'm taking, so sugar management is not an issue. (Metformin and Liragultide) Yellow band in the graph above is good control, red line is risk of hypo. Divers injecting insulin have a whole lot more to manage, and need to be prepared to ingest glucose underwater. Thankfully that is not me. If I'm forced to start an insulin regimen then I will seriously review continuing to dive. Harry
Yeah well I'm one of the lucky ones who gets to take insulin, which was why I was asking. My glucose tabs are chewable so don't know how useful that will be underwater. Maybe I should try it in a controlled environment. I know there's glucose in gel format but hard to find. Obviously hypo is a really big concern for me and typically I'll load up on sugary food before diving. My GP was a bit uncomfortable but since I generally have good control she signed off the medical approval but strongly warned me about hypoglycemia. I'll just have to take special precautions including making sure glucose is around, my dive buddy is aware of the issue and limit my length and depth of diving. OJ
