Matthis

Wow. I think you need both. According to ALL research I have read up on in
recent years weight training is essential to production of good bone growth
it is excellent for reducing LDL . Aerobics are totally essential for young
and old. Weights help prevent muscle injury which is even more important as
we age. Dan listed many of the other benefits of both forms of training.

I would really challenge your statement inferring weights is for the ego
only. most of us who lift do it as a supplement to other sports, it is nice
that it does produce some degree of musculature as well. However I would
suggest that their is a big difference in the body builder who most likely
is pushed to some degree by ego and those of us who use resistance training
to supplement our health , overall fitness and to prevent injury. At the
same time a little ego is needed to do any form of training. Someone who
simply does not give a damn about how they feel, how healthy they are or how
they look will  not go to the effort of training.



Respectfully yours,
Tom Mount
CEO IANTD World HQ
http://www.iantd.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Voss <mat.voss@t-*.de*>
To: Jody Everett (E-mail 2) <jodyev@in*.co*>
Cc: 'Tom Mount' <TOM.MOUNT@wo*.at*.ne*>; 'Rebreathers (E-mail)'
<rebreather@nw*.co*>; 'Techdiver (E-mail)' <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: Rebreather/Diving Age Limit?


>Jody Everett (E-mail 2) schrieb:
>> the dive, I find it very hard to believe the recent rash of "heart
attacks"
>> that have taken place while diving.  You can't tell me that any logically
>> thinking (I know that's a stretch for many divers involved.) person would
>> honestly believe that all of the recent deaths with rebreather diving and
>> wrecking diving really resulted from heart attacks/natural causes as
>> claimed.
>
>I am sorry to say that i feel that there is some truth in it. Though i
>have heard of many tragic incidents, for those who have died who i knew
>personnaly, the heart thing counts. ( 3 cases in 5 years)
>
>Also I must point out that physical fitness is not everything. Its the
>balance between which amount of oxygen your heart can take and which
>amount your muscles will burn. The sum of both must be smaller than the
>amount of oxygen at disposal in your system.
>Aging in this sense means an imbalance in favour of the skeletal
>muscles, which may deprive the hearts own arterial system of the
>necessary supply to garanty its survival.
>In consequence one has to carefully chose ones trainings schemes, prefer
>the aerobic workouts ( in favour fo the system) and rather avoid the
>weights ( in favour of ones ego ;-))
>
>- Matthias
>
>- Matthias
>
>
>

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