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Hold your breath longer in 5 days - Feedback. Pt.1/5
Hey,
I decided to do the program in the classroom, so I want to provide some feedback. Hope you'll see and provide some thoughts about that. I also hope that for some people who hesitate to do it, I'll provide an example that it's both useful, full, informative, entertaining and fun!😁
There will be 5 parts. Sadly I didn't have time to post 3 parts that are already here on according days, so I'm doing it now, and parts 4 and 5 will follow tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
Day 0 - background
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I guess everyone will get entirely different results from this program (or not get the obvious progress - as I see clearly from myself and my coach's experience, freediving progress can sometimes be hard to spot, and building a solid base might feel like a plateau!), but I will provide some context and try to be as precise as possible.
I do freediving for 3 years. 99% of the time I train dynamic apnea in a pool, individually with my coach (3 pool sessions and 2 strength sessions per week), my focus is competitive freediving mid-term, and long-term changing my lifestyle from on-land job-family-money typical life to the living in the Pacific 100% off-grid with my own coral garden on an island, embracing both the wilderness and the tenderness of the Big Blue.🧜♂️
I haven't done any serious STA attempts for 1.5 years until this program, and I never did consistent STA to improve it (sadly, I don't have time for that, maybe if I hadn't had to work I'd do it...) 1.5 years ago I have set my PB 5'15" for which I fought for about 3 minutes with my CO2 discomfort :) So if my DYN skills are probably good (at least my coach tells me so), I feel like I'm falling behind with STA-related skills such as relaxation and the ability to win mind games with my urge to breathe, and the overall mindset is another point of my concern...
Day 1 - Awaken the Breath
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BEFORE: I was quite anxious of this one. This is a sub-max STA, and I didn't do any STA in 1.5 years, and didn't score good in it anyway! So even if I do it for myself, I'm honestly scared. I chase numbers along with freediving joy, and yes, I know what ego is, but numbers are really important to me (if you're interested why check my 1st post somewhere below👇) I finally agreed with myself that I won't push, and I will consider my NON-PUSHING result not as a max/PB attempt. I felt like if I'm gonna end up with a bad result I lose self-respect, and this haunted me until I tried it out.
X-PAND: I did a Sidersky's gymnastics together with a light stretching as a warm-up before the sub-max attempt.
X-HALE: 4-seconds box breathing is a little fast for me (I usually do 5-6 seconds), but I did it. I tried to keep my jaw and shoulders relaxed and soft. I did a lot of body scanning during preparation breathing.
X-Hold:
I did full recovery between breatholds as was intended in a program, and did some light packing (up to 10 small packs) on final breath.
1st one: 2'45'', I just stopped when I felt a distinctive urge to breathe. It was easy, I was just laying in my bed keeping my eyes shut the whole time.
2nd one: 3'15''. This is probably where I should've really go for a maximum, because it felt extremely easy and relaxing! This was a 100% positive and joyful experience, with some urge to breathe but I always withstood it and it's not a problem... I found out it's 3'15'' just because I was curious what time is it and opened my eyes.
3rd one: 3'45''. It should be a maximum, but I guess I didn't relax completely, so I decided I'll go for another round. It was rather a low-quality breathold full of stiffness, my packing was also a bit too much, and the CO2 discomfort kicked in very early. So I ended it before I felt like I'm pushing. Well, sometimes I need 3 or even 4 warm-ups before competition dives instead of the standard 2, it's life...
4th one: 4'35", and I did it completely not pushing! Still, there was a lot of movement (I was angry at myself for the previous attempt and anxious about the result, wasn't quite relaxed, and failed to lay still - started moving at 4th minute, because it just feels easy to do something instead of playing the mind game and apply CO2 control skills😁...) As usual, I didn't get hypoxic, stopped when it was about time I start pushing (I expect myself to push for another 2 or even 3 minutes if I'm in a fighty mood), so I was impressed by this time as it is a not-pushing time!
X-PRESS: I tried to be smart and strategic about when I need to take a breath. Also, it didn't hurt my self-esteem because I did it right after a sub-max attempt, it's gotta be some energy spent!
I ended up taking 7 breaths doing marching, jogging, and jumping jacks, you can see a video of mine about it.
X-FACTOR: So, here are my honest answers:
- What surprised me today is how precise I was predicting that I'll hold my breath for like 4'30'' no-pushing when I told Renee so on a last Sunday meeting. And also that I could even do so great NO PUSHING, just 45 seconds less than my PB, for which I had pushed for 3 minutes! Also it's a dry breathold, and I was doing my PB in a water...
- Starting to feeling my discomfort is quite nothing for me, for a long time. Contractions are strong and come fast, but I ignore any amount and intensity of them. The thing really stopping me for achieving great results on competitions is much different (we discussed it somewhere below👇) but it never showed up during this session.
- I think my state of mind could be described as 'anxious suspicion' on 1st, 3rd and 4th attepmts, and dreamy on 2nd one. I was literally daydreaming about exploring a beautiful coral garden underwater as I want to do in my future while holding my breath!
So here is my 1st day, what do you think?
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