Yes you can do too much. It's called 'overtraining'.
I read you're very eager to start, and also have great energy, that's nice. Now, how to turn it into a better freedive experience?
I suggest you use this energy to increase some strength, condition, flexibility, focus and feel for the water.
I suggest while you try to get as much rest as you can - needed to recover and grow - you start of the day with a modest CO2 schedule (Table A - if I recall right). During every exercise it's not simply about completing, but it's about learning. Freedivers have an intimate realtion with their bodies and minds. The CO2 tables are about learning to deal with High amounts of CO2 and learning how to relax better. While they surely can make your apneas longer, the goal is to increase the comfort and ease.
After your CO2 schedule you can do 3x 20 corect push-ups and / or situps - strength. Breakfist, 5 parts carbon hydrates, 1 part proteine. Water, juce. Some rest.
Later you can try some jogging or cycling - condition. If your new to anything, start very slow, modest, and have a gradual build up, while monitoring how your body reacts and deals with it. When you return your muscles are nice and warm, you can do some stretching, again focus on learning and feeling, starting slow. A hot shower and some real food like stated above, with extra greens, and you'll sleep like a baby!
You can train you focus abillity in many places, even while you're eating for instance, noticing the texture, flavours and smells of your meal.
During every exercise you can to have your body in tune, where breathing, moving, heartrate focus, becomes one synchonus movement, that maybe extend to the mind to become 'flow'.
While your sleeping or during the day you explore your goals and needs, to get a clearer picture of what it is you're aiming for. Having a little journal to write your discoveries and thought on is very helpfull to.
In the training week you should take in mind the intensity and the recoverytimes of your body and mind. I like to alter the training days with 1 day strength, next day condition, next day flexibility. Then starting again with strength. The 7th day is full rest day.
If you have a pool, you can exchange the conditionday or the flexibility day with that one.
In the Pool:
Start with warm up, freestroke for say 250m, slow to modest speed. Focus on rhythm, and good efficient technique.
When you're warmed up, put on your fins and do some (really - like 15 - 20 m) short easy underwater swimming. The goal is to get a feel of the water, to feel where tension occures, to feel what type of stroke is most comfortable and what is most efficient. There are many factors that you can look at. You'll notice what variations yield succes and make the same distance easier.
Remember don't hyperventilate, and come up with the first feeling of discomfort.
Ok, I need to go, and hope this will get you started on your new path of discovery.
Love, Courage and Water,
Kars
