Welcome to ScubaFit^®

ScubaFit^® is the leading fitness for scuba diving resource providing scuba divers with safe and effect exercise and nutrition programs based on the health profile of the diving community and the unique demands of the underwater environment. Customized workouts help to improve the health, comfort and performance of scuba divers. Fit divers are safer divers, more likely to advance scuba diving training and to dive more often. Benefits of being fit to scuba dive include easier handling of scuba diving gear, better use of air and greater enjoyment of the sport.

ScubaFit^® brings fitness to life for scuba divers with FitDiver^® Magazine, FitDiver^® Mobile Apps, the ScubaFit^® Blog, Dive Show Presentations and Featured Exercises. We invite scuba divers to explore the website, join us for one of our events and follow us on social media. ScubaFit^® is the only fitness for scuba diving certification. The ScubaFit^® Diver Course is approved by both PADI^® and International Sports Sciences Association for both dive and fitness professionals.

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ScubaFit^® Diver Specialty

This ScubaFit^® Diver Specialty is the only fitness for diving credential approved by both diving and fitness agencies. Scuba diving is usually described as a moderate level activity. Scuba diving by itself does not lend itself to the maintenance of physical fitness. The ScubaFit^® Diver Course provides the diver new to a fitness regime an introduction to fitness basics. For those divers who already pursue a program of physical fitness, sport specific exercises, fitness concepts, and training tools are expanded to advanced levels and unique circumstances. The program incorporates components for maintaining physical fitness for all types of diving during peak seasonal activity and during the off season.

ScubaFit^® News & Events

Scuba Show 2026

ScubaFit^® Show Presentation: The Octopus Workout
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PADI's "Women in Diving" Interview

Interview with Gretchen Ashton, a Champion for Women and the Sport of Diving...
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Scuba Diving After Childbirth

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Top 10 Fitness Tips For
Scuba Divers Infographic

Fit Divers are safer divers, tend to
dive more often, and are more likely
to advance dive training. An
infographic is fun way to remind
divers of the importance of
physical fitness for diving and
help divers implement fitness
into a diving lifestyle. Top 10
Fitness Tips for Scuba Diving
has been a popular dive club
presentation and the poster is a
great way to help dive centers bring
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clients and staff.

Adventure Fiction by ScubaFit^®

Heart of the Yucatan

Photojournalist Jessie explores the Yucatan on assignment for a travel magazine. As her adventure unfolds, she finds herself searching for the love of her life and discovering her future in the lore of the Maya.

Jessie Connor has been cruising through life enjoying her freedom as a photojournalist for a travel magazine. Her boyfriend is in the same profession, and with dual itineraries, most of their time together is hit and miss between destinations and assignments. Her contentment with life is disrupted when her boyfriend disappears somewhere in the Yucatan, and she is assigned to finish his story. Jessie is a seasoned traveler and has the support of friends, but the trip is filled with uncertainty before it starts, becoming a harrowing adventure. Although Jessie loves her work, she finds herself preoccupied with discoveries above and below the surface. She must finish this assignment while worrying about her boyfriend, struggling with doubts about her relationship, and wondering about her future.

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FitDiver^® Magazine

Stay motivated with the FitDiver^® Magazine. Each issue is filled with timely fitness and nutrition information for divers. Tips for staying in shape, FitDiver Faves, and new exercises to help keep you on track with your fitness for diving goals.

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