Stretching exercises - how to improve your valve drill

**Alastair** · December 5th, 2005, 11:21 AM

Hi All,

I was diving with someone over the weekend who is struggling with reaching his valves. It occured to me that I used to struggle as well but one of the things I did was to add some stretching exercises when at the gym.

Dive Fitness have a free pdf which is worth a look:
http://www.divefitness.com/html/arti...ld_stretch.pdf

Thanks
Al

MarkH · December 5th, 2005, 01:28 PM

Hi Al,

Nice link to really good exercises - wish I'd known about them before. I did Fundies in October and was so far away from reaching my valve on a single 15 that I thought I'd never manage shut downs without some kind of major dislocation. I just figured my shoulder joint wasn't made to bend like that. A month later, after a few simple excercises (such as holding a bit of rope in both hands diagonally across my back and pulling), I can now reach no problem. Point is, don't despair! It really can be managed however impossible it might seem at first.

Mark

wilbo · December 5th, 2005, 01:30 PM

Thanks for posting this Al - I think I may be one of those people who could do with these stretching exercises..

slimer · December 6th, 2005, 03:30 AM

Alos if you are using a DS once you get in, spread out and stretch kind of spread eagle to get teh suit stretched on your body. This helps most people and belive it or not, besides just regular stretching, get a book about yoga and do a few of those stretches.

SLIMER

December 5th, 2005, 11:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
Alastair(Offline) DIRX Supporter Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: UK Posts: 693	Stretching exercises - how to improve your valve drill Hi All, I was diving with someone over the weekend who is struggling with reaching his valves. It occured to me that I used to struggle as well but one of the things I did was to add some stretching exercises when at the gym. Dive Fitness have a free pdf which is worth a look: http://www.divefitness.com/html/arti...ld_stretch.pdf Thanks Al __________________ Helium is our friend - GI3

December 5th, 2005, 01:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
MarkH(Offline) New Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cambridge Posts: 8	stretching Hi Al, Nice link to really good exercises - wish I'd known about them before. I did Fundies in October and was so far away from reaching my valve on a single 15 that I thought I'd never manage shut downs without some kind of major dislocation. I just figured my shoulder joint wasn't made to bend like that. A month later, after a few simple excercises (such as holding a bit of rope in both hands diagonally across my back and pulling), I can now reach no problem. Point is, don't despair! It really can be managed however impossible it might seem at first. Mark __________________ Trying hard to daydream, but my mind keeps wandering.

December 5th, 2005, 01:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
wilbo(Offline) Chimp 4 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Swindon, UK Posts: 872	Thanks for posting this Al - I think I may be one of those people who could do with these stretching exercises.. __________________ Cheers! Wilbo DIR explorers: DIR Yorkshire Divers: YorkshireDivers One of the Foxturd chimps

December 6th, 2005, 03:30 AM	#4 (permalink)
slimer(Offline) New Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: SW MO Posts: 27	Alos if you are using a DS once you get in, spread out and stretch kind of spread eagle to get teh suit stretched on your body. This helps most people and belive it or not, besides just regular stretching, get a book about yoga and do a few of those stretches. SLIMER