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Hold your breath longer in 5 days - feedback 4/6
It's day 4 (probably failed one), I'll try to do it again tomorrow.
Day 4 - Awareness and WIllpower
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CONTEXT: Because of my damn job, I was unable to do day 4 in the morning - and was already late for a day full of useless stuff and moneymaking efforts...
I had a DYNb pool training today, not a big one (some technique exercises, a set of 8 50m dives and 6x75m dives). For me, 50m is long considered a 'short' distance, and 75m is 'somewhat of a medium' one ('medium' is 100, and 120+ is considered a 'long' one).
So I gave myself 3 hours to recover from the pool session, and I hoped to do it enough to do day 4.
I was wrong. Even day 2 when I did it in the morning and had a pool session in the evening was better idea :)
I also was terrified of X-HOLD, because 80% and 90% of max effort are basically 2 sub-max in a row! And it's the evening, after a long and stressful day at work and after a pool training! Still terrified of this but will redo it after full recovery.
X-PAND: I did Sidersky's gymnastics with some light stretching before doing it.
X-HALE: I thought 30 fast chest breaths would feel much more like hyperventilation, but actually no.
X-HOLD: neither of the holds were felt or done great. The discomfort came very early, and it was quite an unpleasant experience despite my best effort, the calming music and the mindset. I tried to recall that 'dreamy' state but was too stressed and fatigued to succeed.
Hold#1: 02:32, medium contractions, but the high CO2 feelings came really early (I didn't count but I believe they were even before 30 seconds!). The one word for that is 'discomfort'.
Hold#2: 02:47, medium contractions and very close to 'starting pushing' (that's why I ended this attempt). I also did more packing and it was unpleasant and even somewhat painful in my neck! So the word for this hold is 'pain'.
Hold#3: 03:00, I actually pushed myself up to 3 minutes because I was too ashamed of myself. I started pushing from 02:33, the very feeling that makes me exit my long dives and ruins my competition each time came to me at exactly 02:59! It is 'suffering' for the word, no less!
X-PRESS: 3 rounds were challenging, I switched to 2 breaths between exercises but managed to do them all. Still did it (so you probably see the pattern, short breatholds I do with no problem under any circumstances, but struggle with something longer because of discomfort...)
X-FACTOR: I don't want to circle any word because this is not my real experience and not my real results, and I'm not accepting it!
I'll never mix two trainings in a row again! :)
(Actually, I have a positive experience of doing STA and DNF in a row. And that DNF dive was probably the only successful dive in my competition history!
It was 2.5 years ago, I was a rookie and signed up for Belarusian Freediving Cup 2023 as a novice freediver. There were STA and DNF competitions in one day, and I participated in both. My STA attempt was very nervous and disappointing since I exited because of CO2 at 3:17 with PB of 4:40. I was extremely angry at my body and disappointed in myself! I also had to take care of my equipment and bring it all the way to all the things I needed to do before the DNF attempt.
I higly doubted that I could swim more than 25m DNF that evening (my PB was 70m at that time). But, when I started my dive, I felt a HUGE relief. It seemed like my high CO2 feelings has completely gone away! Yes, there were some contractions, and tingling sensations, and time slowing, but - there was like very, VERY little urge to breathe! It seemed like my nervous system has finally retreated and didn't attempt to 'defend me', like it always does! It felt awesome, I exited at 75m just because I thought it's enough both for me as a novice freediver, and enough considering what I've been through during the day. On a video, I actually saw that my moves in the end got clumsier, maybe that actually was hypoxia - but I still consider it a huge success - I finally made my aggressive and overly defensive nervous system to surrender and not interfere in my dive! But never from that time I achieved that again😭)
P.S. You also probably see another pattern here. At my start, I was already able to swim 70m DNF, 90m DYNb, and do 4:40 STA, now it's 104 DNF, 132 DYNb, and 5:15 STA. I basically didn't progress in 2 years with my numbers despite all the training, and this greatly haunts me. The problem stays the same, can't get past this damned CO2, and the longer I dive, the more fiercely my nervous system defends me (when I'm definitely not asking), and I have no means to shut it down...😭 I dream of my body completely surrendering to any attempt of any length or distance never showing up with all those discomfort, and my nervous system finally going fully silent even letting me black out if I wanted so... I kindly ask for your help, if you can help me...
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