For the past few off-seasons, Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove has been working out with Deep End Fitness, an intense, yet calm workout regimen that includes on land and underwater breathing drills and workouts. Participants do breath work poolside before outlining accountability goals and individual intentions, before hopping into a thirteen foot-deep pool. The underwater drills include calm, breath holding, to walking the length of the pool carrying 40-pound weights. Other times their are group drills.
Deep End Fitness was founded by a pair of former Marine Raiders. Musgrove has not been alone in his training. He has brought along fellow pitchers and even Fernando Tatis Jr. On a recent outing, a group of Padres pitchers and catchers joined in at a La Jolla pool as a small group of locals looked on.
Joe Musgrove does breath holding drills in a pool on January.
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Joe Musgrove leads a group of teammates in an underwater drill in La Jolla.
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Prime Hall, left, and Tyrus Griffin of Deep End Fitness instruct a group of Padres pitchers and catchers during a recent training session.
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Joe Musgrove does breathing exercises with Padres teammates while training with Deep End Fitness.
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Joe Musgrove, left bottom, beats Padres teammates to the torpedo in an Underwater Torpedo game.
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Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove does a breath holding drill in a pool in La Jolla.
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Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove pushes a brick the length of a 13-feet deep competition pool.
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Joe Musgrove and teammates listened to instructions during underwater training in January.
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Joe Musgrove does a drill with other athletes where someone had to be touching a brick at the bottom of pool 13-feet deep in January.
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Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove lifts with 40-pound weights in the bottom of pool in January.
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Joe Musgrove does breath holding drill where he could hold his breath underwater for more than three minutes.
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Young fans look on as a group of Padres pitchers and catchers do underwater training.
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Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove takes a photo with local students after an underwater training session in January.
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