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Nutrition: The Healthy Bowl
The healthy bowl helps divers eat foods that fuel diving activity without going overboard on calories. Satisfying post-diving hunger begins before diving activity with a refreshing way to enjoy hearty meals at home and on vacation.
Travel Fitness: Stretching Helps Divers In and Out of the Water
Tides: Fitness for SCUBA Divers
The TIDES workout, inspired by the Caribbean, presents fitness concepts to help divers prepare for varied but moderate diving. The exercises focus on both the large and assisting muscles of the chest, back and legs, training abdominals, biceps and triceps concurently. Smaller and assisting muscles are trained along with primary movements to create overall strength.
Workout Strategies: Charting a Course for the Holidays
The holidays seem to pop up on the calendar sooner each year. Not only that, they blend together lasting from October through January. This favorite time of year challenges almost every aspect of overall wellness. A little advanced planning with a few workout and nutrition strategies will keep divers on track during the holidays.
The benefits of stretching include improving posture, alleviating pain, increasing circulation, reducing stress, injury prevention, maintaining good muscle balance and proper joint function. Flexibility and range of motion in the joints are important in developing strength. Divers benefit all around from flexibility.
The picturesque beauty of the Caribbean may be found in the sea spray of jagged shores, on palm-lined white sand beaches or along the reefs and walls below the crystal turquoise waters. It beacons visitors from around the world with unlimited varieties of vacation resorts and cruises, culture, cuisine and recreational activities.