Hi,
I'm relatively new to the world of freediving and I'm actually doing a project at the moment, where I'm trying to find out how I can improve my dry breath holding time within the month of August.
Now my personal best was 1 minutes 40 seconds on the 1st of August. Since then I've been doing CO2 tables with a hold time of 50-60 seconds and a breath time of 2 minutes, decreasing to 15 seconds within 8 rounds. What I do is breathe in for 3 seconds, out for 6 seconds and at the end of my breath time, I take a really deep breath (lower lung first, then upper lung). I hardly feel any diaphragm contractions within the first 6 seconds and even the last two rounds are not that challenging.
Am I doing these tables wrong? Am I not supposed to take a really deep breath before holding?
I'm relatively new to the world of freediving and I'm actually doing a project at the moment, where I'm trying to find out how I can improve my dry breath holding time within the month of August.
Now my personal best was 1 minutes 40 seconds on the 1st of August. Since then I've been doing CO2 tables with a hold time of 50-60 seconds and a breath time of 2 minutes, decreasing to 15 seconds within 8 rounds. What I do is breathe in for 3 seconds, out for 6 seconds and at the end of my breath time, I take a really deep breath (lower lung first, then upper lung). I hardly feel any diaphragm contractions within the first 6 seconds and even the last two rounds are not that challenging.
Am I doing these tables wrong? Am I not supposed to take a really deep breath before holding?