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Hold your breath longer in 5 days - Feedback. Pt.3/5
Day 3 - Feel the Edge
BEFORE: I did a lot at my workday, and ended up very nervous and anxious about its results. I work in sales, and you see, I'm working on my future monofin, so if I want to start training it somewhere in 2026, I gotta work hard😁 (I'm sure you see the principle why I don't like what I do and why sometimes all the stress and pressure translates into freediving...)
I did day 3 right before the strength training, seeing it as a easy warm-up.
X-PAND: I did some light stretching.
X-HALE: triangle breathing felt good. I noticed that 4-4-8 might be a little bit fast for me normally, but considering how stressful I was today it was probably fitting... Didn't calm down though.
X-HOLD: I did some 30+ seconds on full exhale with 1.30 intervals. I measured my BOLT score last summer and there it was 90, so I didn't consider such short exhale holds a big deal, so I tried to shorten resting intervals. They felt like I was breathing, I sat still, and saw no inordinary body signals at all. Last time was 60 seconds instead of 30, I was just curious if CO2 will show up (it finally did at 0'58''😁)
X-PRESS: I jogged outside for 5 minutes (despite it was snowy) breathing through my nose, it felt good and as a good warm-up right before my strength training session. Maybe if I breathed through whatever feels right (either nose or mouth) it would feel more natural, but it was enough air for me for breathing through my nose.
X-FACTOR:
Here is the difficult part. I don't care about the usual high-CO2 'urge to breathe' when it comes, as well as about contractions. So mantras are either not nessessary for me, or - they don't help when the very reason I exit my long dives shows up.
So, for the relaxation purpose, I want to learn to return to that 'dreamy' state when i either daydream about my future or the 'observant' state when I'm actuall in that future, but seeing everything with my own eyes.
And for competitions and scoring good results, I want to withstand whatever my body throws at me to get good numbers, so I want to be all fiery and fighty, and never ever surrender to anything.
To get this, I know what my mantra is:
'I am the everlasting flame. No water can put it out'
But to the relaxed 'dreamy' state mantra (it probably should be the correct one! as long as my problem is the excessive reaction of my nervous system to CO2) I didn't come with.
What do you think? I promise I'll think about the proper mantra, but still doubt that they will help...
Below is my pulse analysis for the exhale breatholding.
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Hold your breath longer in 5 days - Feedback. Pt.3/5
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