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Exercise, Relaxation and Visualization:
Physical fitness will also help improve your air consumption. Diving is strenuous. A day diving is exhausting. Working on your aerobic fitness can only help. Again, the more you dive, the more your body will get used to the exertion. 
Losing a few kilos will mean that you need less lead to get you under the water and that you present a more streamlined shape through the water. You will also look better in your one piece pink dive skin.
More and more divers are getting switched onto relaxation techniques. Meditation and Yoga can improve your mental and physical state and they certainly help free divers to keep a lung full of air for longer. Yoga will make your muscles more supple and flexible and your mind more centered.
Relaxation includes getting a good night’s sleep before a dive trip so that you are not tired in the morning, not being hung over and not rushing because you are late. All these stresses on your body will consume energy which is fuelled by oxygen. Sea sickness is another major stressor. If you are prone to sea sickness take appropriate medication to prevent it.
Visualization may help with that stressful start to a dive where so much air can be lost. A few minutes before the dive, going over in your mind the entry and descent procedures may help to calm any nerves.
Follow these techniques and your air consumption will improve over time. The more you dive the better you will become as a diver.
Happy Diving!!
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