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I will have to try to relax more! Damb!  |
Yeah, that's a tough one, having to chill for a while.
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I am just not familiar with the tables and all the explanations I have read don't make sense to me!
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Hmm.. basically a table tells You how long to hold Your breath, then how long to breathe (recovery), than again how log to hold Your breath, and so on ... (I guess You gathered that much.)
There are two classic types of tables I'll look at now: O₂-Tables and CO₂-Tables:
An O₂ Table will train Your ability to cope with lowered Oxygen levels, increasingly lowering Your final blood oxygen level with every breathhold.
To achieve this, the
breathhold times increase every time, while the
recovery times stay the same for the table. e.g.:
example O₂ Table
hold - breathe
0:30 - 2:00
0:45 - 2:00
1:00 - 2:00
1:15 - 2:00
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A CO₂ Table will train Your ability to cope with high carbon dioxide levels, by increasing Your CO₂ level with every breath hold.
To achieve this, the recovery times - in which You would flush out the excess CO₂ accumulated during the last hold - between the holds decrease, so You accumulate more and more CO₂ in Your system with every hold.
example CO₂ Table
hold - breathe
1:00 - 2:00
1:00 - 1:45
1:00 - 1:30
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I think that's all there is to understand about tables for the start. Now look at 'how to start freediving' for how to design a table that fits You and go ahead.
BTW: Even if You've been snorkelling for a long time, think of freediving as something entirely new, as You will find out many things that one just doesn't come across as a recreational snorkeler.
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... can equlise without having to hold my nose,... the Seal I was lucky enough to encounter ...
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Gah, handsfree! Now I'm envious.
