Burning Up!!!

[gideon0223]

I have been practicing Dynamic and Static Apnea since last summer and I feel as though I have been progressing fairly well. My static times are usually in the 5-6min range with one jaunt over the 7 barrier; Dynamic is ok with DNF of 50m, my form just sucks.

My question is this: I have not BO'ed or encountered a Samba yet; I have violent contractions from about 3:40 onwards but my limiting factor is heat. I feellike i am literally on fire across my back at first then up my neck and chest. I perform Dry statics in just shorts to try and help with the heat and I perfomr signifigantly better when I turn a fan or AC on me. I remeber reading once about certain Yoga technics to control this but i can't find the article again so i was hoping someone could shepard me in the right direction...

thanks...

 

[fcallagy]

Hi Gideon not sure about your particular problem with heat i do find my torso gets hotter at times but usually my arms and legs get colder as i get into it but those times are beyond me so someone more experianced may have a soloution. Hydration is the only thing that springs to mind ?

 

[naiad]

Strange that some people feel too hot when doing static, as I have the opposite problem! I definitely get colder during apnea, and it is most noticeable during repeated long apnea such as O2 tables.

Lucia

 

[XyseR]

gaaaaaaaaaa i get so hot while doing statics! from my neck to my head the temp. increase a lot. more heavier contractions = more hot.

 

[Metridium]

Hmmm... I get both cold and hot too. My extremities get very cold as I do repeated breathholds and my temperature will drop about 2 degrees fairly quickly and stay that way. I only get hot when I push to the very limit, like the last 30 seconds of a maximum static as I approach sambaa. Then my chest and face feel hot, I can break a sweat, and have measured temperature spikes of 1.5 degrees in these last 30 seconds. When I was first starting to do longer breath holds the hot spells were longer and more intense, especially for CO2 tables. But this has faded with more practice.

David

 

[XyseR]

IMO when you feel "hot" er "sweaty" is when you're pushing yourself to SAMBA, which i do. lol. breath holding is so.... oh-so-complicated, since not everyone feels the same thing.

:martial

 

[naiad]

I don't think it's good to push yourself to samba! Definitely not on purpose!

 

[island_sands]

Strange that some people feel too hot when doing static, as I have the opposite problem! I definitely get colder during apnea, and it is most noticeable during repeated long apnea such as O2 tables.

Lucia

i get really hot during static, especially around the head. need to keep refilling my suit with cold water...