Training for a comp I wouldn't recomend short rests before your final static. It's very difficult to get your timing perfect in a comp, and just adds to stress if you can't get it right. If say you had a 4 minute rest prior to your perfomance but were running late by 1-2 minutes you would really stuff up your static. I used to train with having a 7 minute rest and try and be exact about it. In comp was impossible to get your timing right. Now I train with long rests anywhere between 8-12 minutes. A few minutes less or more makes no difference then. I didn't do it for training PB's I did it for maximum performance in a comp. But after I got used to training it, I still got PB's also.
Regards to the hyperventilating thing:-
Some people can never bypass contractions or urge to breathe before they BO. For some 10 deep breaths is over breathing, for others a minute of fast deep breathing won't even delay the urge to breathe by much. I can hyperventilate until the cows come home and still get over 2 minutes of contractions on a static. :duh :waterwork
For a normal final static with a "mild" breatheup I start getting contractions at around the 3.30 mark. The latest I have ever delayed contractions is 4.30, that was after doing a heavy warmup including a 3.30 exhale static, and then hyperventilated like mad until I was super tingly. Yes I was doing this dry.
Now when I compare this to a training buddy:- He does almost no deep breaths at all, can hardly see it. Then on a final static starts getting contractions at around 6.30. If his really pushing he might get up to 8 contractions, wow !
I used to count contractions a long time ago, I stopped when I regulary got to over 100 :duh
Cheers,
Wal
Regards to the hyperventilating thing:-
Some people can never bypass contractions or urge to breathe before they BO. For some 10 deep breaths is over breathing, for others a minute of fast deep breathing won't even delay the urge to breathe by much. I can hyperventilate until the cows come home and still get over 2 minutes of contractions on a static. :duh :waterwork
For a normal final static with a "mild" breatheup I start getting contractions at around the 3.30 mark. The latest I have ever delayed contractions is 4.30, that was after doing a heavy warmup including a 3.30 exhale static, and then hyperventilated like mad until I was super tingly. Yes I was doing this dry.
Now when I compare this to a training buddy:- He does almost no deep breaths at all, can hardly see it. Then on a final static starts getting contractions at around 6.30. If his really pushing he might get up to 8 contractions, wow !
I used to count contractions a long time ago, I stopped when I regulary got to over 100 :duh
Cheers,
Wal
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