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Diving Fitness: Healthy shoulders are vital to a positive diving experience

Healthy shoulders are vital to a positive scuba diving experience.  The mobility of the shoulder joint exceeds every other joint in the human body.  It enables divers to reach behind, …

California Lobster Season Off To A Rough Start With 5 Accidents

  Lobster season in California has only been open for a week, but it’s already been a tragic season, with 5 divers losing their lives off the Southern California coast. …

Physical Conditioning Fast Track: Preparing for Lobster Season

The March of the Lobsters is just a few weeks away and lobster hunters up and down the California coast are buying licenses, checking gear lists, taking refresher courses, and …

Hydration for SCUBA Diving and Fitness: Are you drinking enough?

Good hydration is important to a successful exercise program and especially important to SCUBA divers to reduce the risks associated with diving.  Some physicians will tell you that most people …

ScubaFit Joins Dive Zone Radio: Fitness for scuba divers on the air

ScubaFit® debuted this week on a new radio program for scuba divers. Dive Zone Radio airs every Sunday from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on 960 The Patriot. Dive Zone Radio …

Cindy Shaw earns ScubaFit certification

Cindy Shaw, PT, OCS, BCB, the owner and director of Orthopaedic and Spine Care Physical Therapy (OSCPT) in Huntington Beach recently became a certified ScubaFit Instructor. Cindy is a board certified …

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California Diver Magazine is please to work with some of the most well-known names in diving, as well as independent contributors who submit single articles to our site. If you’re …

PADI approves ScubaFit® Diver Distinctive Specialty Course

Dive and fitness instructors alike can now become certified to teach fitness to divers. The Padi ScubaFit® course was developed by Gretchen M. Ashton, a certified fitness trainer and Stephen …

Fall Fitness for Divers

The seasons are changing around the globe. In the northern hemisphere temperatures are getting cooler, the days are getting shorter, and the leaves are changing color and falling from the …

Dive Fitness Research: Specificity, Strength and the Pipe Puzzle

“In the context in which I view fitness for diving it becomes necessary to develop strength in those movements that contain the identical elements in the exercise program that are …