Hey everyone, I've snorkeled my whole life and only recently discovered what free diving is. I live in Greece and basically just wanna check out the sea life. I've been researching a lot online to find the safest and most effective way to increase my breath capacity but my own experience is conflicting with what I'm reading/watching. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction so I can improve my breath and not do anything stupid.
It's been a couple weeks now that I'm doing C02 and 02 exercises with the help of an app on my phone. This led me to a personal record a few days ago of 3 minutes (lying down on my bed). From what I gather you're supposed exhale slowly when preparing for a dive, as demonstrated here:
A little while ago I followed that video but was only able to get to 2 min 30 sec, so I tried something else which may be wrong but it works so much better.
A year ago I started doing "Wim Hof" breathing, which I believe is a variation of prana breathing. I did 30 big inhales with very short exhales (essentially the opposite of what I've read you're supposed to do for free diving), and at the end I took a big breath. This time I got to about 3 min 10 sec. I did another 40 big breaths with short exhales and this time before taking my last big breath I exhaled everything. I made it to 4 min 5 sec!
For me that's already mind boggling. But I'm afraid this may be unhealthy or incorrect in the long term. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
It's been a couple weeks now that I'm doing C02 and 02 exercises with the help of an app on my phone. This led me to a personal record a few days ago of 3 minutes (lying down on my bed). From what I gather you're supposed exhale slowly when preparing for a dive, as demonstrated here:
A little while ago I followed that video but was only able to get to 2 min 30 sec, so I tried something else which may be wrong but it works so much better.
A year ago I started doing "Wim Hof" breathing, which I believe is a variation of prana breathing. I did 30 big inhales with very short exhales (essentially the opposite of what I've read you're supposed to do for free diving), and at the end I took a big breath. This time I got to about 3 min 10 sec. I did another 40 big breaths with short exhales and this time before taking my last big breath I exhaled everything. I made it to 4 min 5 sec!
For me that's already mind boggling. But I'm afraid this may be unhealthy or incorrect in the long term. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?