Shoulder Stiffness while doing Wonka Tables

[TrickerStow]

Hi Guys,

I have recently started regularly training my body to increase my CO2 tolerance.

I found 30s to be the sweet spot at the moment. Not too easy and not too hard.

However, I feel a lot of stiffness on my shoulders once contraction kicks in. It's as if my shoulders are "contracting" as well.

In addition to this, I also start to feel some warm sensation inside my body.

Is this normal? Or is there anything I can do to avoid this? The shoulder stiffness adds to the discomfort.

I normally train while lying in bed (just before going to sleep). But when the shoulders start to stiffen, It feels like my body is constantly looking for a comfortable position, no matter how comfortable my initial position already was.

 

[wllrobrts]

I'm new here and unfortunately do not have the solution to your problem.
Just didn't want to leave you hanging.

I haven't quite experienced the warm feeling you described, however, with regards to the stiffness I find working on CO2 or O2 tables helps build up comfort.
Obviously I'd would suggest doing it dry opposed to underwater to start.

I downloaded loaded three different ones:
-Freediving Trainer
-Freedive
-Apnea Lite

Haven't really figured out which I like best but I do move around between them from time to time to change things up.
In the short time I've been using them (a sporadic three weeks) I've doubled my breath hold time from 1.5 mins to 3 min, dry.
Still working on increasing my underwater breath hold time.... it's only only gone up from about 50-some sec to 1 min 40 sec.

And lastly, I find it helps when you think before each breath hold, "I'm okay with this being uncomfortable; in fact I'm looking forward to pushing through it", I find my body slowly comes to terms with it.

Anyway, hope it helps.

-Will

PS: If the stiffness continues to be as bad, take it slower.
Also, you may also want consider talking to a medical professional in case it isn't a freedive issue.