Hi all--
I'm new to the board, and indeed to freediving as a sport in its own right. However, new to water I am not. I know from experience that I can hold my breath for 4:30 (I used to practice during boring lectures at college!) and I can swim 40m along the bottom of a swimming pool. At the seaside without fins I can pick up shells from about 15m depth.
Thanks largely to the info available here I now understand a little more of the physiology of freediving and how to interpret what my body is telling me. Knowing what I do now, I'm sure I could do better. So I'd like to get involved!
But here's the crunch: I have moderate persistent asthma. It's well controlled and doesn't keep me from excercise - or even scuba diving for that matter. But funny things tend to happen to lungs at great depth and I want to find out if there is any clear medical opinion on this.
Bronchospasm is not personally a problem for me so long as I take the appropriate steroid & beta-agonist inhalers, but I am worried about side effects that might be caused by excessive mucous - which I do suffer from. Do any of you have any experience?
With warmest regards,
Pete
I'm new to the board, and indeed to freediving as a sport in its own right. However, new to water I am not. I know from experience that I can hold my breath for 4:30 (I used to practice during boring lectures at college!) and I can swim 40m along the bottom of a swimming pool. At the seaside without fins I can pick up shells from about 15m depth.
Thanks largely to the info available here I now understand a little more of the physiology of freediving and how to interpret what my body is telling me. Knowing what I do now, I'm sure I could do better. So I'd like to get involved!
But here's the crunch: I have moderate persistent asthma. It's well controlled and doesn't keep me from excercise - or even scuba diving for that matter. But funny things tend to happen to lungs at great depth and I want to find out if there is any clear medical opinion on this.
Bronchospasm is not personally a problem for me so long as I take the appropriate steroid & beta-agonist inhalers, but I am worried about side effects that might be caused by excessive mucous - which I do suffer from. Do any of you have any experience?
With warmest regards,
Pete