Breath holding

[Amphibic]

I think you can start firstly static on land exercise... now I can give an exercise which I done..

Static in bed...

The first training tip here is easy to prepare. You need one bed, a chronometer, peace and quiet. Place yourself on the bed and relax, breathe deep, but normal. After 5 minutes of breathing, take three deep breaths after another.

After the third inhale, make a powerful exhale emptying your lungs totally - a bit more if possible. immediately after emptying your lungs take a powerful (from your toes) inhale filling the lungs to approximate 98 %, and hold your breath. At this point, start the chronometer to measure the time that you can hold your breath. When your holding breath, different thoughts are spinning inside your mind, this is normal, do not think about the time or that you actually is holding your breath, try to think about things that normally makes you calm or everyday charms...

After some time the first inhale reflex accrue, but dont give up, continue to fight ! Almost all untrained persons can still hold their breath for equal amount of time just before the reflex accurse. When you reach the insufferable point and you have to take a breath, take a breath and stop the chronometer.

Take 2 or 3 fast and deep inhales, trying to find your way back to the calm and relaxed breathing you had just before holding it. Rest for about 3 minutes with deep and normal breathing before you repeat the exercise. Repeat the exercise 5 times ! You will notice an increase in time holding your breath every time.

Do this exercise every day. The best time is directly in the morning when you wake up. You should notice great increases in performance within a week !

I'm giving it's link too.. u can find the other kind of apnea ex.
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[5ata]

I would have to disagree with you on doing statics everyday Amphibic - testing has shown that doing statics everyday can actually cause your performance to decrease.

When I trained with Aharon Solomons earlier this year, he made it quite clear that a minimum of a day of rest was needed to recover from doing purposeful static apnea training. He even went so far as to state that doing the tolerence tables was only adviseable twice a week, one day for table A, the other day for Table B - with close to equal days off inbetween the alternating tables.

Aharon is an Apnea Academy Instructor and good friends with Umberto, so I take his advice very seriously and one of the student's I am working with has seen measurable results from this routine. The resulting increased levels of CO2, along with the free radicals introduced into the body - which are linked to certain health challenges, causes me to do Statics at the current prescribed level - unless scientific proof can be given that is in a positive light to doing them more than twice a week, I doubt very seriously that doing statics everyday will keep and maintain a high level of capability.

 

[Amphibic]

:huh: ı think ı am not agree with you... when ı didnt start these ex. ı asked my tranier.. And he didnt say about that like yours ... he suggested me. And ı have lots of friends which done this ex. there's no problem yet. Im not sure, maybe u can true maybe we're wrong, but it was worked on me..
if every 'morning' try these, (cause at mornings the lungs and the other members're more suitable all sports) a months later (min.) u can see the results how improve.. but ı have to say that, the walk apnea or ladder apnea I'm not suggest for your heart's ritm.. it's depending all people...

p.s: but if you use this ex. u should do that every 2 week and than you break time about 1 week and you start again...

 

[5ata]

I understand your position and why you feel the way you do - there is still alot to be learned about the physiology of freediving - what works for one or several people may not work for others and vice-versa. I still have much to learn yet - even having studied with the people I have so far and about freediving for a number of years already.

The great thing about freediving is that many have yet to fully tap into their potential - myself included.

 

[stefusa]

For training in breath holding, I suggest:
1. Training in your bed EVERY evening.
2. Training yourself in a pool (WITH A SPOTTER) by doing 50 60 feet underwater horizontaly and a static at the bottom of the pool (you will probably need to exhale some air to sink) and after the static, coming back underwater to your starting point.
3. Doing breath holding while you're walking, or training in the gym room.
4. Trying to work on the flexibility of your thorax.
5. With training, maintaining breath holding past the point where the diaphragm jump behind your ribs (For me it happens around 2' 2'20)

Overall, you need to train a lot and it will come.
After two years of training in a club (in france) i was (but no more) in the 4'30 static.
Hope that help...