Want to Be A Better Diver? Hold Your Breath And Read This.
Researchers at the University at Buffalo recently demonstrated that divers can improve their swimming endurance and breathing capacity by strengthening their respiratory muscles. According to those scientist-types, participants improved their respiratory muscle strength and their snorkel swimming time by 33% and underwater scuba swimming time by 66%.
According to Claes E.G. Lundgren, M.D., Ph.D., the study's senior author, "...when breathing muscles become fatigued, the body switches to survival mode and "steals" blood flow and oxygen away from the locomotor muscles and redirects it to the respiratory muscles to enable the diver to continue breathing. Deprived of oxygen and fuel, the locomotor muscles become fatigued." It should come as no surprise, then, that by increasing the strength and endurance of the respiratory muscles, divers can prevent -- or at least reduce -- fatigue and enjoy diving longer without getting tired.
Feeling stronger already, aren't you?
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