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Your incorrect assumption is that you're supporting the same hardware with different software. Drastic changes occur with aerobic training and hypoxic stress i
by mapt 11y ago
Your incorrect assumption is that you're supporting the same hardware with different software.
Drastic changes occur with aerobic training and hypoxic stress in the red blood cell count & blood volume, blood pressure, heart stroke volume & lower resting heartrate. He has more muscles, more energy stored in glycogen in those muscles, and swims faster. The person you learned from was likely not physiologically capable of long dives when he first started, no matter his mentality. And nobody is capable of using a "meditative breathing pattern" while they're exerting themselves at the limit of their aerobic capabilities; He was farther from them than you were. There are likely other long-term adaptations we don't know about, specific to diving.
- eric_h 11y agoHe was quite a bit more physically fit and obviously he was an adult (and a former Navy SEAL) and I was a teenager, so yes he had quite the physiological edge on me. However, part of what he taught us was that when diving, with our without SCUBA gear, one shouldn't anywhere near approach the limit of one's aerobic capabilities, for precisely the reason of conserving one's air supply (and, honestly to focus on the experience of the dive and the amazing ecosystem around you). I got much better at reducing my use of air by the time I got my open water cert, but I still never got anywhere near to how little he used.
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- late2part 11y agoHow do you think that happened? He learned to push himself beyond his comfort zone. The earlier poster wasn't that he was inferior, but that he saw how training and pushing yourself beyond comfort can change you.