Hello everybody. I practice spearfishing with my brother once a week. I love being in the ocean and I have a huge respect for it and all things that live there. I usually catch 1 or 2 sea breams to eat right after the dive. I try to use the buddy system and it often works in the beginning but after some time, we split. Part of the reason is that I cant keep up with him. He can dive 18m and stay for about 30 seconds, maybe less, I cant stay 2 seconds. I wouldn't mind about increasing my bottom time if diving alone (sure its nice to have longer bottom times but im fine diving 10m or less) but Im scared that something happens to him and I am unable to rescue him if he needs.
Part of my concern is because of the following. He had always been fearless about life in general, so usually hes pushing boundaries, which makes me worried. One other thing is that we made a spearfishing course and during this course the instructor explained this breath up: relax until your breath become shallow, then slowly increase the velocity and amount of air, keeping the exhale twice as long as the inhale and then after a minute or so take 2 to 3 deep breaths, inhaling all you can and exhaling all you can. To me right now this doesnt seems safe, maybe it is not dangerous but cant be safer than no change in breathing pattern during the breath up. Also when hes doing his breath up I can actually hear the noise even when Im 5 to 6 meters away from him. I already talked to him but he insists that it is safe because it was taught in the course.
Anyway, hes my brother I love him and I would not forgive myself if something happens to him. I tried searching for information about training and I couldnt find a solid training routine. Two things that I know it could help me: tables and apnea walks. But i dont know how many times each one of this activities should be performed in a week. Currently I still live with my parents and I study electrical engineering i can spend max of 1h each day with training. I also saw one video of a guy performing various stretches on the chest and diaphragm mixed with breath holds, etc. One other thing is performing cardio with different breathings. So with all due respect, I need you guys thoughts on these things:
1) frequency of tables and apnea walks;
2) daily lung stretching can improve breath hold;
3) cardio should be performed with different breathings or it doesnt matter.
If I can come up with a good plan I can start a log on the training section that im sure it will help people in a similiar situation. Sorry the long post, appreciate if you read this and thank you guys for the attention. Any thought will be highly important to me.
Part of my concern is because of the following. He had always been fearless about life in general, so usually hes pushing boundaries, which makes me worried. One other thing is that we made a spearfishing course and during this course the instructor explained this breath up: relax until your breath become shallow, then slowly increase the velocity and amount of air, keeping the exhale twice as long as the inhale and then after a minute or so take 2 to 3 deep breaths, inhaling all you can and exhaling all you can. To me right now this doesnt seems safe, maybe it is not dangerous but cant be safer than no change in breathing pattern during the breath up. Also when hes doing his breath up I can actually hear the noise even when Im 5 to 6 meters away from him. I already talked to him but he insists that it is safe because it was taught in the course.
Anyway, hes my brother I love him and I would not forgive myself if something happens to him. I tried searching for information about training and I couldnt find a solid training routine. Two things that I know it could help me: tables and apnea walks. But i dont know how many times each one of this activities should be performed in a week. Currently I still live with my parents and I study electrical engineering i can spend max of 1h each day with training. I also saw one video of a guy performing various stretches on the chest and diaphragm mixed with breath holds, etc. One other thing is performing cardio with different breathings. So with all due respect, I need you guys thoughts on these things:
1) frequency of tables and apnea walks;
2) daily lung stretching can improve breath hold;
3) cardio should be performed with different breathings or it doesnt matter.
If I can come up with a good plan I can start a log on the training section that im sure it will help people in a similiar situation. Sorry the long post, appreciate if you read this and thank you guys for the attention. Any thought will be highly important to me.