donmoore, I dont have any plan as to how long or how far I walk, my only goal is to expose myself to as much CO2 as possible.Quite simply, I walk as far as I can. I recon you should endure as much pain as you are prepared to endure, no more and no less. More obviously being better, but within reason.
Breathups are about 1:15, but are more like recoveries than proper breathups. They are deliberatly short and gentle because I think blowing off any more CO2 than you need is counter-productive. I usually wait untill my arythmia goes away before I start walking again but this doesnt take more than 60 seconds normally.
Laminar, my personal opinion about warmups for max statics is 'more pain more gain', the more contractions the better. I do 3 or 4 warmups to about the same level of discomfort/number of contractions for each. Typicaly 120 contractions, with about a minute recovery between holds. I dont see any point in longer breathups between warmups statics, I think they might be counter-productive even, and they just take to long. Before the max attempt though I'll take at least 8 minutes to breath-up. My approach though is based more on feel/intuition than reason. I could well be wrong but so could others' reason. Good thread this, it's got me interested in statics again(though I'm happy to be an armchair expert only
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bevan
