8:52 STA personal best experience
This is my first post and I would like to explain my static apnea experience that I had.
I am seventeen years old, and live in Denver (5300' above sea level) and last night I held my breath for 8:52 and though you all might like to hear about and comment on my experience.
I started by laying down on my bed and beginning by usual breathing practice. On my last attempt, my routine consisted of slow breathing moderately deeper than normal for five minutes. This time, I decided to extend my routine for ten minutes to see the results. Laying on my bed motionless I concentrated on my breathing. After ten minutes, I took one final deep breath and started timing myself. Because of my breathing routine, my blood was holding all the oxygen it could, and I knew this because there were slight tingles in my fingers and face. Because this type of thing is a battle between the body and the mind, every time I started to wonder what time I was at, I would lie to myself and think 'you're not past one minute yet' and this was to trick myself to keep going. Well, when the tingles left my face I opened my eyes and lookes at my watch, 3:26 it read and I felt fine. I closed my eyes again and focused on the white noise in my room (I had turned on a fan so that I could focus on the noise and not breathing). When I felt my first contraction, I looked at my watch again, 5:02. The beginning contractions began slow, about one every ten seconds, and increased in frequencey to about one every two seconds, with a time of about 7:30 (I don't know exactly because I didn't look at my watch). At about 7:45, the contractions were so strong that although I was trying as hard as I could, small ammounts of air were being forced out, and I had to pinch my nose shut to stop it. After this, the contractions seemed to either slow in frequency or they became one long contraction, I can't remember which because I was focusing on not thinking about the contractions. Either way, it seemed to get easier past 7:45 and the last glance at my watch was at 8:37, and after that I was focusing on my walls looking for signs of my vision fading before I black out. I guess I was concentrating too much on my vision, and not enough on trying not to breath when without warning, I exhaled and nearly lost consciousness. I opened my eyes and stopped my watch, 8:52.49. As I began to breath normally again, I thought my watch was wrong, but the other clock in my room confirmed that it wasn't. I just couldn't believe that I could hold my breath for that long.
I you are still reading through this long post, I would like to know your thoughts on this, and I would especially appriciate any tips or techniques that can help my reach a better time. I really don't know a whole lot on static apnea (I'm just a kid who likes swimming with his friends) but I would like to be able to do it better. Thank you for your time and for your comments.
This is my first post and I would like to explain my static apnea experience that I had.
I am seventeen years old, and live in Denver (5300' above sea level) and last night I held my breath for 8:52 and though you all might like to hear about and comment on my experience.
I started by laying down on my bed and beginning by usual breathing practice. On my last attempt, my routine consisted of slow breathing moderately deeper than normal for five minutes. This time, I decided to extend my routine for ten minutes to see the results. Laying on my bed motionless I concentrated on my breathing. After ten minutes, I took one final deep breath and started timing myself. Because of my breathing routine, my blood was holding all the oxygen it could, and I knew this because there were slight tingles in my fingers and face. Because this type of thing is a battle between the body and the mind, every time I started to wonder what time I was at, I would lie to myself and think 'you're not past one minute yet' and this was to trick myself to keep going. Well, when the tingles left my face I opened my eyes and lookes at my watch, 3:26 it read and I felt fine. I closed my eyes again and focused on the white noise in my room (I had turned on a fan so that I could focus on the noise and not breathing). When I felt my first contraction, I looked at my watch again, 5:02. The beginning contractions began slow, about one every ten seconds, and increased in frequencey to about one every two seconds, with a time of about 7:30 (I don't know exactly because I didn't look at my watch). At about 7:45, the contractions were so strong that although I was trying as hard as I could, small ammounts of air were being forced out, and I had to pinch my nose shut to stop it. After this, the contractions seemed to either slow in frequency or they became one long contraction, I can't remember which because I was focusing on not thinking about the contractions. Either way, it seemed to get easier past 7:45 and the last glance at my watch was at 8:37, and after that I was focusing on my walls looking for signs of my vision fading before I black out. I guess I was concentrating too much on my vision, and not enough on trying not to breath when without warning, I exhaled and nearly lost consciousness. I opened my eyes and stopped my watch, 8:52.49. As I began to breath normally again, I thought my watch was wrong, but the other clock in my room confirmed that it wasn't. I just couldn't believe that I could hold my breath for that long.
I you are still reading through this long post, I would like to know your thoughts on this, and I would especially appriciate any tips or techniques that can help my reach a better time. I really don't know a whole lot on static apnea (I'm just a kid who likes swimming with his friends) but I would like to be able to do it better. Thank you for your time and for your comments.
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