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I know that this is an old thread, but I have been out of touch for a while. I am a competitive, amateur cyclist and until recently, I was only doing mixed gas ocean diving which involved relatively infrequent trips to the coast (500+ km's away). After these trips, I always noticed that cycling performance was, much to the delight of my training partners, pathetic for at least several days after returning home. It never occurred to me that this was as a result of damage done to my body during the dives. Now that I am doing some cave diving, I will be diving much more frequently and the thought of not being able to inflict pain on the other riders in the bunch is too much to bear. From reading the previous posts, I understand that it seems to be well accepted that diving with the wrong gasses will severely decrease athletic performance for a few days, post dive. George recommends at 30/34 mix for 40m dives + correct deco gasses and techniques. Are there guidelines that I can use to determine what mixes to use on deeper dives, say 50-70m in order to enable me to be up and racing the next day ? Would helium added to my deeper deco gas help ? Thanks, Simon Murray kirvine@sa*.ne* wrote: > Exactly , the nitrogen. Also the oxygen if missused. I told you, I can > NOT air dive and do jack shit the next day or even the next week. I can > compete the next day if I used the right gas(es) properly. > > Volker and I just did an 85 mile ride with the hammer down after doing a > fast 40 the day before with a 10 k run after and diving that afternoon. > > We are all the same in that regard. I just have times and stats to > support what I am saying. I have tried it all ways. > > The swimming is a real teller since the times are so sensitive. > > Adriaan_Haine@ce*.be* wrote: > > > > Not if your name is George Irvine, but us lesser dudes feel the dive the day > > after. At least I do. In the summer I don't dive when I'm doing MTB > > competitions. It messes around my training and I cannot perform the way I know I > > can without diving. I feel the diving (ie the nitrogen probably) lengthens and > > disturbs the recuperation time needed for the muscles after training. This is > > all intuitive but I would love to hear from anyone who can put some proven > > theory to this. > > > > rgrds > > > > Adri Haine > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Can rec. diving (less than 40m, no deco) affect your physical ability the > > day after? I was thinking that maybe it is a bad idea for me to dive the > > day before long distance running competitions. > > > > Dan Ocklind > > -- > > > > -- > > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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