Entering Euphoria Mode

[SEDATE]

Hi Folks,
Which is the best way to stay calm all breath hold cycle? i duno why but when i reach 3:30min or 4:00min stress covering me and i dis-connect holding my breath :head
i lost the map in my brain last year i created. it was so easy till 6 min and cons was comming around 3:50 min rcard to myself)
which map ya using while holding till 8 min or 7 min or any pass 8+ or 9+
((maybe Tom/Herbert/Mifsud) can answer this ))
Any idea will helpull
Cheers to all,
Sea-date

 

[TRITON]

I had the same period when I just couldn't stand it when contractions come(and they come at about) 2:30 and i stopped training static.Now I just do it when I have to(at competitions) and it works for me as I do 5:30-6:00 when I want to....though I often do series of empty lung 1 min statics at home.I think the key thing is to prepare yourself mentaly for it and stress at the competition helps a lot in my case.

 

[SEDATE]

Thnx infos Alex
i wish i would do exercise empy lung like you ..
i tried a few times it makes me stresfull. i gave up.
but i do empty stomach exercise 2-3 days a week in the morning. i wake up aproaximately at 5:30 am everyday sometimes around 4:30 as sun rising before go to office
early morning what i do:
walk 220 steps as breatholding every morning(empty stomach and sleepy) . i get only a deep breath and start walking as slowly as i can . second attampt shold be 240 or 230 but .it can't. it 120-180. maximum i do 2-3 cycle .
as you know alex, body lost a great deal from stocks as you can imagine.
yesterday. i forced a little bit myself and walked 250 steps and all day long(yesterday) i felt some pain in my kidneys. the reason that i slept that day too much and you know or not if you sleep too much the lactic asit in your blood increase a lot. body produces bi-carbonat to disolve lactic acid in blood and think that you do apnea very early in the morning .Body is complex and noone knows very well about it. oneday a profesor in hospital told me ..when you die.your heart stop..and if we get some blood and test the lactic acid ratio in blood will be huge.. there is no science that explain why body does it.. you not running..yo not diving...you not jumping.. still thinking on it 5 years and i did not find out real answer.

if you tell me what you think after entering/passing sleep mode or map* you using in your brain?..
once i attamp very early morning close to sea shore as sun almost rises i had done 8:01 min .. i made a big mistake if i did write on a paper what was all sceine in my brain .i will read it again . i could think on it.
now i imagine where is 5 min? where i am? .my target again 6min or 7min . if 8 comes 2 years later again. it is ok.
i still don't know where they are? .
4:40 looks like a Berliner Mauer in my brain for today
Cheers!
Sedate

 

[TRITON]

When I do statics I usually imagine some situation from my life(that isn't stressfull), for example, taking my dog for a walk(sounds silly but works for me) and sometimes I actually forget that i'm holding my breath for some time.

 

[wes]

Sedate,

Here is my 2 cents. Practicing with a heart rate monitor and a computer doing static tables has helped my head space alot. I lay on the couch in a relaxed "astronaut" type position with lots of pillows so very relaxed. Then I have the computer telling me "breathe" and "hold" and also have my heart rate monitor telling me what my heart rate is. You may wonder how all this technology helps me relax or find a happy place though it does I think because it makes the reality not that pleasant. For example when I am on my 2nd or 3rd hold from a static O2 table doing say a 3 min warm up hold, I really want to slip away into one of my alternate realities and not check the time and not open my eyes and just kind of float so when I can't overcome the urge to open my eyes and check the time and "come out of the zone" I am kind of assulted by this harsh reality, I see my hear rate (now climbing as I have my eyes open which uses more oxygen and I am thinking which uses more oxygen) and I see that my time isn't up on the hold which I knew anyway as the computer would have told me "breath" if it was up, so with this set up there is really no upside to "waking up" to check the time. The benefit of this is as soon as you do this you immediately want to go back to your warm fuzzy place and kind of hide which I have learned to do.

As to exactly what I do during the non contraction phase I imagine myself floating and falling and often get a spinny vertigo feeling like I am tumbling and turning which I enjoy alot. As contractions near I imagine myself in the sink phase of a long deep dive, when I have outside "thoughts" I turn them into "safety divers" that I look at and acknowledge and thank with a nod as I continue deeper and deeper into my dive. Once the contractions get intense I say to myself OK time to come back up and I start swimming up and say hi to those same safety divers as I near the surface.

My other recommendation is to do the full negative statics as the contractions are so intense and the psychology so "ugly" that it will make your regular statics seem pleasant and enjoyable. Try starting at 20 seconds for full negatives and go for 1 second more each night. I would stare at your watch and count the seconds as this makes it "tougher" to do and tough it out for one more second each day. When you can do more than 60 seconds of full negative then really any ugly feelings you get during regular statics will be no big deal.

I also recommend waking up in the middle of the night to do statics when I did them in the morning I felt pretty crappy the rest of the day so it nice to do the statics and then sleep for 2-3 more hours then I would feel great the next day.

Good Luck and Cheers
(my PB is about 6:45)