Used to do this with my dad as a kid. We’d sit on the bottom of the pool for as long as we could. When we started, about a minute and a half. By the end of summer, we were at 4:25. Tried it recently and literally fainted. 😂
Same. Amateur free diver. About 3 mins were totally fine, so could probably do a bit more when I was at my best. That's probably what saved me when I got Covid BAD. And the doctors and nurses who treated me ofc. They were the best. ❤️ I have struggled 2 years to hopefully get my lungs back to what I'm used to and this wasn't too hard actually, so... Yay! 😀
Here's the tip, never inhale as much as you can, because the extra effort will make it difficult for you to maintain it, instead, inhale until almost full, and then stop, and do whatever it is you feel like. I made it even until the 2nd round.
My guess: the lack of oxygen eventually calms your brain, which realizes it's totally okay because you can stop at any time, you're not really drowning, and now you're fine to continue. It's like popping a gummy and realizing "Oh, I don't HAVE to think about 500 things at once. This is nice."
Hi fellow band kid :D I play the flute and sing a lot too so I've gotten pretty good at breath control and just ignoring the need to breath. The test was easy
As a free diver, this was good practice to see how well my lungs act when my dive response isn’t acting or I haven’t done any beforehand prep! (For anyone wandering, the Mammalian dive reflex or Mammalian dive response is when your head is submerged in a cool liquid, your heart rate slows in order to use up less oxygen! And by beforehand prep i mean that I do breathing exercises before a dive to further calm and slow my heart rate, for example 4 second inhale, 15-30 second hold, 10 second exhale! Shorter inhales paired with mid to long holds and long exhales slow the heart rate or at least it does for me! 😊)
Maybe it's because of life long singing training, but this was really relaxing. I like the feeling of filling my lungs completely. Feels like stretching from the inside. Plus, the music made me relax even more, haha.
As someone with asthma I've trained my lungs to the best of my ability. Seeing you struggle as I kept the same face made me proud of myself for overcoming my flaws
same, I used to love the challenges to hold the note as long as possible. ironically when I say "oh I'm going to hold my breath for 30 seconds" I can't do it, but even though I didn't manage to inhale for the full time I still managed this.
As well as a former clarinet player that also wants to get back into playing, the first time I only got like 3 quarters of the way but the second time I passed I was very proud of myself tbh, its been 3 years since I've played lmao
Singer with asthma here. I am so proud that all of my breathing exercises and training are paying off. I used to have trouble holding my breathe for 10-15 seconds to talk my medicine. 😅
@@rahmaaden1687 we love our turmowt players too lol. im trying to learn trumpet for jazz but its messing up my flute ambesure (sorry for the bad spelling) because i keep buzzing when trying to make my lips tighter 😭 so i gotta stop
A cool trick for holding your breath is if when you feel like your lungs are gonna explode, let go of a tiny bit of air then wait about 5-10 seconds before the next one. It’ll trick your mind into thinking it fully exhaled and then once it recognizes that it hasn’t, it’ll have that feeling again so just keep doing that over and over until you run out of breath
i went to the comments mid video while holding my breathe to distract myself and i did this right before i almost died and it helped me get to the end thank u lmao
I can never hold my breath for so long, but this time it seems zoning out helped me actually make it lol If I'm not thinking about how much I wanna breathe, then my body temporarily agrees, before I just physically can't hold it anymore, I'm so so glad I didn't get lightheadedness, since its pretty normal for me in most other stuff lol
Yes! There is actually a psychological phenomenon behind it! If you wanna stay under the water in a pool for longer, etc. DON'T THINK ABOUT BREATHING!! Just either zone out or do something else. I closed my eyes so that I wouldn't constantly try to find out how much longer I had left, helped a TON
I've been practicing my entire life for this moment whilst beating underwater scenes in movies! Totally nailed it and was almost able to hold it for two rounds. I'm also an asthmatic so, extra points, lol.
Competitive swimmers: *i have no such weaknesses.* Also seriously my advice is don’t puff out your cheeks and hold air in your diaphragm, just store it all in your lungs and you’ll make it through
perks of being a lifeguard! fun fact: if you’re underwater, your throat will start spasming before you actually *need* air. think of it like hearts in minecraft. as long as you don’t think about it and be confident, you can swim a lot longer than you think. just be careful and don’t go *too* far.
As someone who uses breath hold exercises to clear their nose, this was surprisingly easy The only thing that ruined it was the first time I accidentally paused it and the second time I had to burp…third time was fine
For some reason, I didn’t struggle much at all? Idk, something about completely filling my lungs to the brim seemed to trick my brain into thinking that we were getting new oxygen, so I was fine 😂
Did you know that we don't have a way to measure the inhalation of oxygen, only the exhalation of co2? Which is why the relief you feel after holding your breath is on the exhale. This is also why it's so easy for ppl to die from things like CO poisoning. As long as you are exhaling the CO2, your body thinks everything is good.
I could only hold my breathe for 13 seconds over one year ago, but I started doing breathing exercises everyday so this was easy but I usually don't inhale a lot if I'm going to hold it for that long.
Having just had covid plus missing the lower half of my left lung due to blood clots I had back in '13, the fact that I made it to 0:23 is impressive to me.
I had blood clots in both lungs and legs in 2016! I also had a clot they called a saddle embolism which should have killed me according to my docs. Was in the hospital for 10 days on 100% bed rest…I felt fine, but they would not let me move out of that bed for nothing until the afternoon of the 9th day. Anyway, I still couldn’t “catch my breath “ weeks after leaving the hospital. After yet another CT they said I had scar tissue in my lungs and I also found out I had heart failure due to my heart being so enlarged due to the blood clots causing it to have to work so hard to pump blood through my body. I said all this to ask…is your lung issue due to scarring or something else?
@smoochesTina the bottom half my lung, as I understand it (i was kind of young when it all happened), died, liquified, and was re-absorbed by my body. So, I don't think it's scar tissue, I think it's just straight up gone now, but I'm actually not sure.
Hey similar story here! Not missing any of my lungs but I have had cancer in there for a couple of years now, and I also just got over covid a few days ago, so I was proud to be able to complete the challenge
@@savvivixen8490 correct, its completely unbeneficial as the muscle use requires an increased blood supply which needs to be oxygenated properly, and no thats not 'made up for with the extra air in the cheeks' as ive heard argued before
Dang I'm actually surprised I could hold my breath the whole time, but that's good! My physical health has improved since I've been a personal shopper for online orders! Yay! I couldn't hold my breath that long 4 years ago, I was a physical and mental mess. It's so cool to see your health improve in ways you didn't expect! Just from small healthy changes.
Tip: I find this helpful for strengthening lung capacity for singing, but I usually am able to distract myself by reading comments and such, so you don't think about not breathing as much. Hope this helps!
I play clarinet and have asthma. I’m not used to receiving air to my lungs. This challenge is nothing compared to seven slurred whole notes at 60 bpm with a fermata at the end. And yes, that is in my music and I can play it. I just end up trembling from there being literally nothing left in my lungs.
I decided to do this twice. The first time sitting silently grooving to the music. The second was me full on dancing to the music. I feel like the distraction made it easier to hold my breath.
As someone who played a wind instrument in school, spent my entire youth singing in choirs with the director as a mother, and was on swim team as a kid, this was a challenge now, but more because I didn't get a full inhale at the beginning than because of a lung capacity issue. I definitely wasn't feeling lightheaded, which was nice.
I wish I could do that! I am in choir and do voice often but this was still a struggle. Any tips for better breath support? I still haven't gotten better at it yet.
I did it as a bong rip and got so into sarcastically dancing to the background music I didn't see it had said I could exhale. Can we get an extended version?
