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Wierd table

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Joao Pedro

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Hello all,

Strange thing happened. About two days ago, I read someone here in this forum, talking about a different co2 table. Basically, hold for 50% of pb, exhale, inhale, hold again. Do it 8 times. I decided to try. The next day I managed to get a 2 minutes hold, pretty ridiculous I know, but I could barely get 1:40. Prior to this day, I was not training in any way, and diving peharps one time each week.

This led me to a interesting question. If tables really work, whats the frequency? You see people saying 2 times, but then you wonder why you would need 4 days to recover a simple exercise? Your chest need less for much more work. Following that line of thought, I decided to do that wierd table again, and again, every day. Today is day 3 and getting 1:30 is hard right now. So, maybe you can overtrain? Or am I on a bad day?

Who knows... Not much option so I'm going to continue doing that and see where it leads! I report back to you if it works.
 
You may have read my comments on "one-breath" CO2 tables. They definitely help me get used to having higher CO2 levels. As far as overtraining, this seems to be an individual thing. If your day-to-day results keep getting worse then you probably are overtraining. Also you said that you hold for 50% of personal best for these tables. I only hold for about 30-40 of PB and by the 8th breath hold it's very much a struggle. I doubt I could do 8 cycles with 50% PB holds. I can't do tables everyday or I burn out. I try to do them once a week just to keep in shape.
You should feel good going into tables - if they don't seem to be going well or you just feel off - don't press the issue - just stop for that day or do something else.
Also, tables should be done on an empty stomach, hours after any meal - no digestion should be going on and you should not be "burping your lunch".
 
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