how to hold your breath for longer hypoxic swimming trainning
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Published 2018-05-18
Before you attempt to do any breath control, I’m going to remind you shallow water blackouts are more common than they should be, so please be careful. If you have a breathing condition such as asthma be extra careful and consult your doctor before doing any hypoxic training.
Increasing your lung capacity happens naturally when you exercise on a regular basis. If you follow a workout program such as our Swordfish program you will increase the strength and function of your muscles. The more efficient they become the less oxygen the will require to swim and the less carbon dioxide the will produce. The heart is also a muscle and if you train it it will become stronger and you will be able to hold your breath for longer because of better circulation.
It is also important to breath correctly when you exercise. Let’s do a little experiment right now. Prepare a stop watch. Take a breath and hold it for as long as you can and pause this video. Welcome back! write down your time. Now we will take a breath correctly before holding it again and beating your time. Diaphragm breathing is the way to go. When you push your diaphragm down you give your lungs more space to expand and thus you can inhale more oxygen. Try that right now and see how good it feels. Prepare the stop watch again. Stand up or sit up straight and inhale pushing your belly outwards first and then expanding your chest. Inhale as much air as you can, hold it and start the stop watch. Write down your times in the comment section below.
Ok now that you know how to breath properly and you/ll exercise regularly what’s next. To increase lung capacity further, you need to get mentally and fiscally comfortable with excess carbon dioxide and lack of oxygen in your blood. This requires specific exercises that we will go over next week so make sure to subscribe and click the bell icon if you don’t want to miss it.
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Sources:
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All Comments (21)
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First try holding my breath was 27 seconds. And with the technique I did 52 second. That's great.
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Lots of 'mental' work as well to learn to hold your breath for long times. Mostly that is learning how to slow your heart beat down and relaxing. Pretty much meditation. Only thing I really learned to do in high school study hall was to hold my breath for 2 minutes. You do need to replenish oxygen levels before another attempt, so a 10 or more minute rest break with steady and deep breathing, then calm your pulse rate down again and stay calm while you are holding...
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I got astma, but my swimming has made it better (but need inhalator every work out). Last time I checked I could hold my breath for a bit over 2 minutes :) I did 50 meter no breath, and could have gone longer this fall :D (2 People was watching me, to prevent drowning)
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Buenos días muy buen vídeo estaré esperando el de ejercicios para hipoxia
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Súper el vídeo, eres un profesional !!!
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For the first part, I think its more accurate to test a few times and take the average, I did the test twice before unpausing the video, the first time was 2:41 second time was 3:06. Neither of them used the diaphragm technique yet the second time was 25secs longer (maybe because my lungs warmed up after the first time). Edit: first try with diaphragm technique: 2:55, rested a while longer, 2nd try 3:09. I did try the hardest for the last one stopped when I finally felt a little dizzy(I didn't push myself so much for the first 3 tries). So on average there is an improvement but I don't think its that significant.
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Cool video as always!
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Excellent video, that's what I'm doing now in water,,,, is not fun lol,,, but increases my speed a lot on my freestyle, cause don't have to turn my head as much ✌🏼️
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I have congestive heart failure which accumulates fluid in my right lung. I am trying to swim to exercise my heart and make my lungs better. What do you recommend for people like me ? Thanks.
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i had 1:30 twice, it seems i used alredy it without knowing :P are there others effectives tutorials about breath holding on youtube?
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If you want to hold your breath longer, learn freediving😉
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No dislikes, awesome keep up the good work!
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My times were :50 and :58 with diaphragm
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can you told us about sets in hypoxic training in swimming ?
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Nice experiment, in the first I got 27" but the second lasted 42". It was a impresive difference, however my respiratory capacity is so low, maybe due covid infection. I will investigate.
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I holded my breath 42 seconds it's great thank you
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My first try, I did 48 seconds. The second try was 1 minute. I've never reached a minute in my life. Heck. Before today, I didn't usually get beyond about 30 seconds, but for some reason I was able to go past that when I tried this time. I think it was partially staying calm and partially will power. When I really wanted to breath, I told myself to go a little further and I did. I'm not much of a swimmer, but I just wanted to learn how to get my breath holding up for other reasons. I found an app that helps train your breath holding, so I'm going to try that.
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I think sometimes 2 and half minutes is easy for me while also sometimes 30 seconds is very hard. (My Diaphragm twitch begins at 1 minute usually)
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