Habits are a powerful tool for us human beings. We are able to do most of our day to day without actually thinking about it. Our habits allow us to reserve our energy for the more important things in life. …
My book, ‘Longer and Deeper: cross training for freediving and spearfishing’, is nearly ready. I’m very excited to finally share a sample with you.
I’m also very proud that Aolin Wang, the national record holder of China has written a …
The Canadian Pacific Northwest is a stunning place for scuba diving, freediving or snorkeling. It offers some of the cleanest waters in the world, fantastic underwater landscapes and unbelievable marine wildlife.
The only issue for many people that wish to …
So you want to increase lung volume? There are several ways to do this, but you should probably start with becoming a better breather. That means, you should be able to fill up the entire volume of your lungs with …
This post goes with a webinar that I gave on data collected with the Moxy Muscle oxygen monitor. In the webinar I test some specific exercises and try to speculate on myoglobin desaturation and training to increase myoglobin stores.
I …
How much energy do we really expend during a dive? This was a question posed by Connor, after our last post on muscle metabolism (Part 1, Part 2). This article is the result of that question. Perfect …
This article is the first in a 3-part series on muscle composition, performance, and failure during breath holding. This article is long and fairly technical. In a rush? Just read everything in bold.
Muscle …
In this post we are going to take a closer look at how your judgement changes due to hypoxia. Being hypoxic means having too little oxygen to support your body. Hypoxia manifests itself as fatigue, lightheadedness, tunnel vision, altered colour …
Spearfishing brings with it tons of dangers that we should think about that aren’t covered in the former parts of the ‘risk series’ (shallow water blackout & compromised conditions). First of all, if you are spearfishing you are …
A stunning mermaid was dropped into the waters here years ago. Find her by following the buoy down and swimming straight out. She is in about 17 meters of water.
You will find her encrusted with tube worms and wearing …
