Many of us, myself included, often do dry apnea training. There have been several threads asking if it is safe, but the fact remains that a lot of us do it. I thought it would be good to start a thread with some safety guidelines, as I have heard of many potentially serious accidents here on DB. These include falling on hard surfaces, blacking out while driving, giving relatives/friends a fright, fainting in public...
Here are some safety rules, please feel free to add more...
- Do not do any kind of apnea training while driving, operating machinery, crossing the road or any other potentially dangerous task. It just isn't worth the risk.
- Try not to scare friends or relatives, and at least warn them of your training. If they find you lying on the floor blue in the face, they will quite reasonably assume something is seriously wrong.
- Do not chew gum etc. while doing any kind of apnea training.
- Be careful when apnea walking, or doing any apnea in a standing or sitting position - there is probably a greater possibility of blackout/LMC, and the result of knocking yourself out on a concrete path could be serious.
- Do not do apnea training on gym equipment.
- Do not do training which causes unusual heart rates or arrythmia.
- Avoid extreme packing, and anything else which can cause injury.
- Never hold your breath alone in the bath. Of course that isn't dry training, but it just seems like a good place to put a reminder about it.
Hope this is useful.
Lucia
