how to hold your breath for longer hypoxic swimming trainning

The main reason why you feel the urge to breath is because there is an excess of carbon dioxide in your lungs and blood. This is why you feel weak and sometime dizzy after you hold your breath for a long time. The other reason is the lack of oxygen. On this video we will see what you can do to help increase your lung capacity.

Before you attempt to do any breath control, I’m going to remind you shallow water blackouts are more common than they should be, so please be careful. If you have a breathing condition such as asthma be extra careful and consult your doctor before doing any hypoxic training.

Increasing your lung capacity happens naturally when you exercise on a regular basis. If you follow a workout program such as our Swordfish program you will increase the strength and function of your muscles. The more efficient they become the less oxygen the will require to swim and the less carbon dioxide the will produce. The heart is also a muscle and if you train it it will become stronger and you will be able to hold your breath for longer because of better circulation.

It is also important to breath correctly when you exercise. Let’s do a little experiment right now. Prepare a stop watch. Take a breath and hold it for as long as you can and pause this video. Welcome back! write down your time. Now we will take a breath correctly before holding it again and beating your time. Diaphragm breathing is the way to go. When you push your diaphragm down you give your lungs more space to expand and thus you can inhale more oxygen. Try that right now and see how good it feels. Prepare the stop watch again. Stand up or sit up straight and inhale pushing your belly outwards first and then expanding your chest. Inhale as much air as you can, hold it and start the stop watch. Write down your times in the comment section below.

Ok now that you know how to breath properly and you/ll exercise regularly what’s next. To increase lung capacity further, you need to get mentally and fiscally comfortable with excess carbon dioxide and lack of oxygen in your blood. This requires specific exercises that we will go over next week so make sure to subscribe and click the bell icon if you don’t want to miss it.

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[elangelyt]

First try holding my breath was 27 seconds. And with the technique I did 52 second. That's great.

[robohippy]

Lots of 'mental' work as well to learn to hold your breath for long times. Mostly that is learning how to slow your heart beat down and relaxing. Pretty much meditation. Only thing I really learned to do in high school study hall was to hold my breath for 2 minutes. You do need to replenish oxygen levels before another attempt, so a 10 or more minute rest break with steady and deep breathing, then calm your pulse rate down again and stay calm while you are holding...

[hege]

I got astma, but my swimming has made it better (but need inhalator every work out).
Last time I checked I could hold my breath for a bit over 2 minutes :)
I did 50 meter no breath, and could have gone longer this fall :D (2 People was watching me, to prevent drowning)

[daflashman]

normal breath before hold 2:05
Diaphragm breath before hold 2:55
Yep, big difference, I hold my breath every morning and have been looking for something additional to apply to swimming so thank you!

[manirj]

I holded my breath 42 seconds it's great thank you

[rem-wmej]

2:36 and then 3:01 that was great! I’ve been thinking of getting back into swimming after I stopped due to Covid and I want to try something more intense than before so I need to work on my breath

[shayleesholayan]

On my first try -01:06.45
With the inhaling, pushing your stomach out first- 01:12.08 ☺

[KAIZENFREEDIVING]

If you want to hold your breath longer, learn freediving😉

[SkillsNT]

My times were :50 and :58 with diaphragm

[maggsta]

lols I got 52 seconds on my first try and with the diafragm thingy 39😅

[manny]

I got 1:50.97 the first time, 2:21.41 the second and tried it a third time and got 2:51.00. This are definitely great techniques if done correctly. I did notice that the third time my chest and diaphragm was getting smaller as if the air was just dissipating somehow. I’m definitely gonna continue this. I’ve always wanted to do some spear fishing but never got around to training myself.

[joesr]

For the first part, I think its more accurate to test a few times and take the average, I did the test twice before unpausing the video, the first time was 2:41 second time was 3:06. Neither of them used the diaphragm technique yet the second time was 25secs longer (maybe because my lungs warmed up after the first time).

Edit: first try with diaphragm technique: 2:55, rested a while longer, 2nd try 3:09. I did try the hardest for the last one stopped when I finally felt a little dizzy(I didn't push myself so much for the first 3 tries). So on average there is an improvement but I don't think its that significant.

[doubleemcastillano]

Longest I’ve ever held my breathe was 2 minutes and 18 seconds. I used to practice holding my breath in school and the military when I was close to falling asleep.

[santiagobello]

Buenos días muy buen vídeo estaré esperando el de ejercicios para hipoxia

[traviscadiente]

0:01 not them just working out underwater

[MauricioHernandezVeg]

Somebody knows what the hell happened with my broth...oh, sh*t, 911!

[illusionconfusion]

As a magician I can hold my breath for 5min and 34sec, can you please help me to hold my breath for 25mins, I want to go for record, can you train me

[blacklight]

27s->15s I already feel the improvement

[davidwilliama.]

My first try, I did 48 seconds. The second try was 1 minute. I've never reached a minute in my life. Heck. Before today, I didn't usually get beyond about 30 seconds, but for some reason I was able to go past that when I tried this time. I think it was partially staying calm and partially will power. When I really wanted to breath, I told myself to go a little further and I did. I'm not much of a swimmer, but I just wanted to learn how to get my breath holding up for other reasons. I found an app that helps train your breath holding, so I'm going to try that.

[spyrobjnn]

18 second and 48 seconds
Need to improve my lungs!