Free Weights

Strength training can benefit divers, who need strength to wear and transport heavy gear. Other benefits include greater bone density, increased metabolism, and cardiovascular strength.

Alternating Renegade Rows

Setting Up a Home Fitness Gym

Achieving and maintaining a healthy fitness foundation helps you safely enjoy diving. Time and money are the most common barriers to regular exercise, so a home gym can be a practical and cost-effective solution for fitting workouts into your busy schedule. It eliminates a commute to the gym and membership fees.

woman on cycle machine

Stand-Up Paddleboard Exercises

Training on a paddleboard requires you to stabilize your body to maintain balance. Working your stabilizing muscles is beneficial for diving because they are helpful in dynamic ocean environments.

Downward Dog to Push-Up

Water Aerobics

Water aerobics can be beneficial for divers who want to improve their control and stamina underwater while minimizing impact on their joints. These targeted water aerobics exercises utilize aqua dumbbells and focus on enhancing a diver’s core stability, strength, and endurance. 

plank crunch

Sandbag Training

Sandbags are versatile training tools for a total body workout. These dynamic exercises incorporate nontraditional lifting methods that mimic real-life movements. This sandbag workout builds functional and grip strength, balance, […]

Sandbag reverse lunges

Jump Rope Training

Jump rope training is a powerful full-body cardiovascular workout that builds muscular endurance, coordination, and breathing efficiency. Jumping rope strengthens calves, stabilizes ankle joints, and improves core stability, allowing finning […]

man jump roping

Hydro Training

Joint stability and core strength can significantly impact your dive experience, especially when there is current or you are entering or exiting the water in full gear. One way to improve joint stability and core strength is to incorporate water into almost any traditional exercise that uses a bar or dumbbells. The basic premise is that moving water forces your body to use more stability. You can purchase hydro training equipment or make your own.

Women doing a single leg deadlift press next to a pool in a tropical setting.