See the theme? Yep… RELAXATION!Īll your muscles need to be inactive, any muscle that is tense will use oxygen. Relaxation of the muscles, relaxation of the mind and relaxation of the breath. There are three main things to focus on during your preparation. This can be broken down in to the principle parts… We go in to this in far more detail on courses and in my book. The next thing to work on is your breath-holding technique itself. If you are quite unfit yo may find you peak early and will struggle to go beyond that point. Your overall fitness levels will also affect how quickly you improve. But remember, it will involve training… and lots of it. Some people respond to training better than others, there are no fixed rules that we can use to precisely gauge your potential but after years of instructing people how to hold their breath these numbers are a pretty good guide. We are going to use this time as a prediction of what you will be able to get to in one months time. Always focus on your inhales and not your exhales when recovering! When you cant manage anymore take some deep inhales to recover.As you hold your breath, relax and think of other things.Take a deep breath in, then exhale everything, then take a really deep breath in… as deep as you can manage.Breathe calmly and slowly for 2 minutes – No deeper or faster than you would normally.You need to see what you can achieve now to understand what you can get to with continued training. The first thing to do is see what your dry breath-hold is right now. This is a six stage process and is finished off with a training table STEP ONE I wish I had a secret breathing technique that could add 75% to your breath-hold, but i dont, and dont believe anyone if they say that they do! Freediving training is about adding small amounts on a regular basis until your body is conditioned to deal with the high c02 and low 02. There is no easy route to a 4+ minute breath-hold, but in this guide i will take you through some of the basic techniques and a training plan which could take you there. Take slow steps and make steady progress. Never dive alone, always dive with an apnea and rescue trained buddy.ĭry training is many times safer than wet training.Īlways dive within your limits. First things first – Basic freediving safety! We have a great success rate at improving peoples times, many doubling what they could do before. Freediving is in many ways a very safe sport, but without formal training it can be dangerous.This guide will not contain all of the techniques that we employ in our teaching here at FreediveUK (for lots of reasons) so if you want to get it right and take your freediving to the next level then be sure to join us on one of our courses. If you have not completed a freediving course at all I would not recommend doing any ‘home training’. I decided to put this guide together as a post course reference/training guide for my students, but it could be used by anyone, as long as they approach the activity with the care and respect that it deserves.
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