Break
I've decided to have a break from all apnea activities at least for the rest of the week. With the competition and all, I've done breathholds pretty much every day for a couple of weeks now, and after doing a very stupid experiment on tuesday (of which I will give no details so no one else tries it) I've been feeling a bit "not right". I need to re-concider the amount of apnea training I do in the future. 1 wet static + 1-2 dry per week should be very well enough.
I also had a bad experience at the pool yesterday. I had already decided I wont do any hard apnea, but I ended up diving anyway. I guess my eye got sucked by the low pressure in the goggles, but it got all bloody red and swollen. I was already pissed off so I just left. With this, the stomach problems, some kind of flu hitting me and other stuff, I figure I better give the body some time to recover. After all, I've only got one of 'em...No spare :) It's supposed to be fun after all. No point in forcing it...
posted by jome @ 10:11 AM
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O'Boy
Hey,
I think you've made a right decission. Interestingly, my friend who'd left freediving some year ago, wrote me yesterday that he improved his static from 5'45" to 6'19" last weekend. After 1 year without training!
BTW, don't you think that it would be better for us all to know about your 'stupid experiment'. What if I am about to go throuh the same one tomorrow? Just because you didn't tell me...:))
Well the real reason is that it's just so damn embarassing :)
Well ok. I figured a good way to train co2 tolerance would be to breath into a plastic bag. I did this a bit too long I think and I felt really sick afterwards. I'm quite convinced that had I continued a bit longer, I might have been in serious trouble.
Needless to say I won't be doing that again ;)
O'Boy
Hey,
Theoreticaly, there should be nothing wrong with that kind of exercise. With breathing into plastic bag you were actually performing apnea, with somewhat larger lung volume (lungs+bag) = decreased alveolar PO2 = hypoxia. As if you were doing exhaling into closed mouth and inhaling back.
Well, that was the theory. Because the bag was leaking a bit, it was allowing small amounts of air to exchange, so my idea was that this allowed me to keep my co2 level very elevated for a very long time. And it did, I did the experiment for over 12 minutes.
I wasn't too worried about the hypoxia, I know the symptoms of that. What I'm afraid of in such case is closing in on acidosis and judging from the symptoms it might have been close.
I'm not a doctor, but just a thought...
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