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Moving things along with regard to the FIT III course. Yesterday was a busy one, leaving many of us nackered. We started at the pool with an intriguing stretching warmup specific to free diving and particularly packing. The intent with regard to the later practice is to improve flexibility. Good stuff, I understand FIT is going to release an instructional video dealing with this and other related aspects. Looking forward to buying one once they're out. We worked on some dynamic dives in the pool extending up to 75 m horizontal swims. Some guys passed this distance by quite a lot in the pool conditioning sessions last spring. Got into weighing properly for it, use of neck weights, pacing your speed and quite a bit more.

Then we went to the classroom for theory and then on the boat and back out to 500 ft. of water for more training exercises. We worked on a standard warmup routine involving progressively deeper pull downs and some negative pressure dives. Then we determined how much deeper your neutral buoyancy point was after packing through a series of kick cycle exercises. We also worked on reverse packing to aid in equalization at depth. We finished with some variable weight descents pulling up and then dropping the weighted lines to explore equalization at greater depths. Interesting stuff but all combined with the previous days activities tiring. Today was a new day with new experiences. More to come on that soon.