There are little tips and tricks to holding your breath. Unfortunately, not every trick works for everyone. The thing is practice. You won't hold your breath longer if you don't practice. Starting at 2 minutes is a good thing. Good rules of thumb:
1. Never Dive Alone
2. NEVER DIVE ALONE!
3. Hyperventilation is not good.
I just wrote in another thread that there is no exercise or wizardry that can make you hold your breath for 4 minutes after 3 seconds of trying. Get yourself a copy of "Freedive" by Terry Maas. This is kind of a Freedivers Handbook. It will most certainly get you started. You can obtain Freedive at most bookstores and scuba shops even if they have to order it. If you get some time, search around these posts, you can find lots of info.
Good Luck!
Tim
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
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