Increasing Time

[Freedive WI]

In and out for two minutes.

You want a nice slow, complete, gas exchange as you breath. Hyperventilating is a HUGE no-no. IF you breath fast enough to get light-headed your doing it wrong. One good method to start with is to do a 5:0:10 breathing cycle. That menas you inhale for a count of 5, don't hold your breath, and then exhale for a count of 10. THis will bring your heart rate down.

Before you do your last inhale you want to exhale as much as possible first, to get rid of as much co2 as possible, and then inhale as much new air as you can.

Your inhale should be as Fred said. Stomach- chest- back- even neck. By "neck" I mean if you tilt your head back at the end of your inhale you can suck in a little bit extra air. This part is eaiser to do on a dive, as the water will quickly squeeze the air in your throat down to a comfortable level.

Relaxing is the key to freediving. Big lungs don't make as much of a difference as being very relaxed in the water.

Some doctors from Spain actually developed some training tables that Umberto Pellizarri used for his workouts. He started to teach others how to use these tables at his "Apnea Academy" in Italy. THese tables have now been passed around the world and you can even down load your own set off of the FREEDIVE UK.COM website. They are divided into O2 tables and CO2 tables. You work them on opposite days. I was using them earlier this spring, but this time of year I mostly use the pool and bike to train.

Jon