Budho said:
Hello everybody!
I am a freediving instructor from Slovenia, Europe. Right now I am training for national championship and selecton for AIDA world individual championship.
Everything went well until I had a very hard training session. Since than I feel burned out. It is one month before the competition now so. Does anybody has any sugestion or experience with similar situations. So what to do next?
:hmm
Just a remark taken from my - very limited - experience of freediving...
I experienced different other sports in competition... running, swimming, roller skating...
I felt that there is something special in the "apnea" fatigue, which is quite different from "swimming" or "running" fatigue ;
after a "purely" apnea training, I feel as if my lungs were burning...
maybe you might make your training sessions more healthy if you mix "apnea" training with more "aerobic" training (swimming, running, cycling,...)
if you train to hold your breath, it is good also to train to breathe...
In Pelizzari's book, he speaks a lot of other "cardiovascular" sports among them first swimming (good for the chest and rib cage expansion) and finswimming (good for the thighs and abs...)
Asa conclusion, do not be too polarized on "pure" apnea... do things which make you breathe, and then you will increase your capacity to hold your breath....