It has been three years from my 3* certification. Three years without training at all and with heavy smoke and bad nutrition. I woke up one day and look in the mirror and the mirror broke! 103kg at 170cm. This are the facts and the motives are of no importance...
Than one day me and my friends, who started the Romanian Free diving movement, decided that an official competition is the key to make us known in the branch. Since we decided to do the first "ROMANIAN FREEDIVING CHALLENGE - POOL OPEN", I saw a good opportunity to start training again and loose that damn cigarette once and for all.
When I first go to the pool after all this years, I did manage to DYN 40m [my PB was 65m]. From 7 attempt to do 50m, only 3 was successful. In STA I didn't manage to pass 1,30 min [my PB was 3,20 min].
After three months of regime and one month of training and not smoking, I'm now at 93kg and I did yesterday a full 3,07 min in STA. I can only go at the pool three times a week for max 2 hours each.
My problem here is the DYN. I tried many types of swimming. With bi-fins I can't do even 50m . With mono-fin I can do 50 and yesterday I managed to turn and did 60m.
I want to get to the 50m without the urge to breath because I have a big problem with contraction. In STA I can live with contractions, but in DYN I cannot.
I tried different approach: streamlined [with many muscle group working and draining O2]; slow swim with more knees bending; slow swim with more hips movement ... The better choice was, I guess, the relaxed swim with 2 strong kicks and one soft kick while gliding , and than again and so on. I didn't manage to turn at 50, but in stead I did a little 10 seconds STA there. That means it was for the first time I've managed to reach the 50m being quite calm.
I-m not preparing for the Challenge in 5-th of april because I know that I cannot win anything but experience, but I really need to manage to do at least my PB in DYN.
My current problem is how to overcome the contractions and learn to make them my allies in stead of my enemies. [I hate dry static (]
the only things I do now for that is lot of STA and DYN on residual. [All training is with my 3* free-diver buddy.]
In the remaining one month I will lose another 4 or 5 kg of my weight and perhaps the mono technique will improve as well.
Any tips and tricks for me will be more than welcomed and for that I thanks you ... I'm trying to be a free-diver again here ...
Than one day me and my friends, who started the Romanian Free diving movement, decided that an official competition is the key to make us known in the branch. Since we decided to do the first "ROMANIAN FREEDIVING CHALLENGE - POOL OPEN", I saw a good opportunity to start training again and loose that damn cigarette once and for all.
When I first go to the pool after all this years, I did manage to DYN 40m [my PB was 65m]. From 7 attempt to do 50m, only 3 was successful. In STA I didn't manage to pass 1,30 min [my PB was 3,20 min].
After three months of regime and one month of training and not smoking, I'm now at 93kg and I did yesterday a full 3,07 min in STA. I can only go at the pool three times a week for max 2 hours each.
My problem here is the DYN. I tried many types of swimming. With bi-fins I can't do even 50m
I want to get to the 50m without the urge to breath because I have a big problem with contraction. In STA I can live with contractions, but in DYN I cannot.
I tried different approach: streamlined [with many muscle group working and draining O2]; slow swim with more knees bending; slow swim with more hips movement ... The better choice was, I guess, the relaxed swim with 2 strong kicks and one soft kick while gliding , and than again and so on. I didn't manage to turn at 50, but in stead I did a little 10 seconds STA there. That means it was for the first time I've managed to reach the 50m being quite calm.
I-m not preparing for the Challenge in 5-th of april because I know that I cannot win anything but experience, but I really need to manage to do at least my PB in DYN.
My current problem is how to overcome the contractions and learn to make them my allies in stead of my enemies. [I hate dry static
the only things I do now for that is lot of STA and DYN on residual. [All training is with my 3* free-diver buddy.]
In the remaining one month I will lose another 4 or 5 kg of my weight and perhaps the mono technique will improve as well.
Any tips and tricks for me will be more than welcomed and for that I thanks you