What is the good time for beginners?

[lelandstrott]

Hey

I just joined the forum really enjoy it.

I wanted to know, what is a good breath hold time for a beginner and where should my abilities be going? I weight train three days a week and get pool time three times a week also.

After one week of training i can hold my breath for 1minute and 30seconds.

Is this a good time for a beginner.

Thanks a lot.

 

[cdavis]

1.5 minutes is doing fine, keep it up!

Make sure you have a buddy in the water with you when you are doing any kind of apnea. Lifeguards don't count.

Connor

 

[Erik]

Welcome. Try doing 3 or 4 breath-holds in a row, with a good breatheup in between each one ie: 3 or 4 minutes. You might surprise yourself.

 

[trux]

Welcome. Try doing 3 or 4 breath-holds in a row, with a good breatheup in between each one ie: 3 or 4 minutes. You might surprise yourself.

That's correct, but be careful not to understand "good breathup" as ventilating above normal (hyperventilation). Hyperventilation can cause deadly accidents, especially when you hold your breath underwater without an experienced buddy surveying you closely (in contact with you). Hyperventilation delays the comfort phase of the breath hold, bringing you so closer to dangerous hypoxia, but additionally it also sinks your physiological hypoxic tolerance, hence accelerating the blackout. So beginners should better learn relaxing and enduring the urge to breath, than delaying it with hyperventilation!

 

[samdive]

most people I teach manage between 2 and 3 minutes after some very basic training on our beginner course - usually on the 3rd or 4th hold

 

[whucash]

Ask yourself a question..is this a good result? Am I satisfied with it? Am I proud?
You shouldn't ask us this question..freediving is fighting with yourself..with your own psychical and physical barriers..competeing with yourself.
That is my philospohy!
But..hey! GOOD WORK!!

 

[Jorg]

Whucash; good point! I remember the first time I tried static in the water in 1997. I did 45 seconds and was very proud.

 

[sgnips]

also, ask yourself: am i feeling good?

you might enter in a sort of suffering feeling when you breathold comes to be "long": try to avoid that point and come out when the good feeling start to vanish: this is IMO what a beginners should look for, good sensations

you'll have much time for performance later on

keep safe