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Hi Neit.
I am a beginner myself. What has worked for me is to forget about times. Relax as best I can and have fun with it. If you want to increase your times (all safety precautions given) it helps to learn how to take a proper full breath and with that try and relax every muscle you can. You should soon be able to extend that two and a half minutes.
Good luck, have fun and make sure you always dive with a buddy.
I am a beginner myself. What has worked for me is to forget about times. Relax as best I can and have fun with it. If you want to increase your times (all safety precautions given) it helps to learn how to take a proper full breath and with that try and relax every muscle you can. You should soon be able to extend that two and a half minutes.
Good luck, have fun and make sure you always dive with a buddy.
hey!! I'm not training too much static, but streching, relaxation, and breathing techniques it's really efficient.
Nice streching on the chest, intercostals muscles, and diaphragm.
Breathing from the belly, feeling the belly going up and down, without any movement on the chest during 1:30min. or 2:00min.You can count 4 inhale and 8 exhale, so slow inhale and slow exhale, that make shure that u are not hiperventilated.
After take two or three nice full belly and full chest, fisrt feel your belly full, and after start to full your chest. Slow inhale, and slow exhale. The last one can be a little bit more fast and start with the static.
For relaxation, everyone have his own, should be can of meditation.
Thing abut something make u happy or something that u did hundret times. Like if u look a movie of yourself doing something nice..
Or focus on the sounds u have around, relaxing all of your muscles, even the thongue.
And of course traning it's the best to improve.
Do some warm up, like the first one untill contraction, the second static untill contraction plus 30sec. and the last one your maximum, so u activate the mammalian dive reflex, and get your body relax and ready!!
Hope will help for u !! have a nice training!!!!
Nice streching on the chest, intercostals muscles, and diaphragm.
Breathing from the belly, feeling the belly going up and down, without any movement on the chest during 1:30min. or 2:00min.You can count 4 inhale and 8 exhale, so slow inhale and slow exhale, that make shure that u are not hiperventilated.
After take two or three nice full belly and full chest, fisrt feel your belly full, and after start to full your chest. Slow inhale, and slow exhale. The last one can be a little bit more fast and start with the static.
For relaxation, everyone have his own, should be can of meditation.
Thing abut something make u happy or something that u did hundret times. Like if u look a movie of yourself doing something nice..
Or focus on the sounds u have around, relaxing all of your muscles, even the thongue.
And of course traning it's the best to improve.
Do some warm up, like the first one untill contraction, the second static untill contraction plus 30sec. and the last one your maximum, so u activate the mammalian dive reflex, and get your body relax and ready!!
Hope will help for u !! have a nice training!!!!
Hi Neit, welcome aboard DB!
Any tips to a beginner? well, explore and learn what you love about diving.
For the exploration I recommend doing that with a buddy. You're dealing with new sensations, and unknown territory so you need to take small steps and safety of a buddy who knows what to look for and how to bring you up and around in case you faint.
About exploring, try 1 new thing at a time. Trying more adds exponentially to risk of failure.
Freediving is a strange sport, it's a sport where applying more force is often counter productive. One can get only better and deeper by using improvements in technique.
Within this mentally and physically challenging sport you'll encounter several challenging moments when you discover the limit's of your current technique and abilities. At such moments it's key to reflect and change.
The silence works like a mirror, it reflects back your unprocessed past. Becoming aware grands you a (second) chance to become a better person.
For me my best moments in freediving is when I loose the perception of time.
Any tips to a beginner? well, explore and learn what you love about diving.
For the exploration I recommend doing that with a buddy. You're dealing with new sensations, and unknown territory so you need to take small steps and safety of a buddy who knows what to look for and how to bring you up and around in case you faint.
About exploring, try 1 new thing at a time. Trying more adds exponentially to risk of failure.
Freediving is a strange sport, it's a sport where applying more force is often counter productive. One can get only better and deeper by using improvements in technique.
Within this mentally and physically challenging sport you'll encounter several challenging moments when you discover the limit's of your current technique and abilities. At such moments it's key to reflect and change.
The silence works like a mirror, it reflects back your unprocessed past. Becoming aware grands you a (second) chance to become a better person.
For me my best moments in freediving is when I loose the perception of time.