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Hot take: A 60-day surface interval changed my dive planning approach completely
I used to think back-to-back dives were the only way to make money fast. For 3 years I'd do 4 or more dives a week, sometimes running 6 days straight. Then I hit a stretch where I was exhausted, foggy, and my deco stops felt wrong. A dive medic buddy told me to take a full 60 days off the water just to reset my body. I laughed at first, but I had a slow season coming up so I tried it. Coming back, my air consumption dropped by 30 percent, my bottom times got cleaner, and I stopped getting those post-dive headaches. The old me would have called it a waste of time, but the difference in my work quality is night and day now. Has anyone else taken a long break and seen a change like that?
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troy_reed5mo ago
30 percent drop in air consumption" - that's a huge number. How much of that do you think was from actually resting your body versus just forgetting bad habits you had built up?
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hannah2405mo ago
Does your body just need that kind of hard reset every few years to clear out the accumulated fatigue?
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