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Old 06-22-2016, 08:00 PM   #51
growingupninja
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Re: How long can you hold your breath?

I do very little steady state dry cardio like you guys are describing, besides warm-up and warm down, everything for me is interval based, usually around 3min on, 30 secs off, fairly high intensity during the work time--lot of plyometric stuff, as well as some traditional weights. I am used to that type of training from Thai boxing and in the pool these days I do apnea only sets but I still structure workouts on time interval like a sprint/middle distance swimmer (which I did for a long time growing up).

I feel like my spearing performance improves when I do that type of stuff, but I am also training for repetitive, deep spearing dives and overall ocean strength. Last summer when I trained seriously for real freediving I took most of the dry non-apnea training out and did something close to how I used to taper for end of season back when I was a swimmer, but with apnea. That did much more for my dive performance than any amount of non-apnea exercise, although I cannot discount specificity of training. Generally I like some plyometric cardio and weights since it keeps me strong enough to deal with rough conditions and boats and anchors and crap, pure swim and apnea doesn't work for everything else I need to do.
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