How to start your Breath hold training | Making breath holding easy 

"...biggest mistake... too hard, too fast" could be written in gold. Good beginning The rest... I can only suscribe it Thanks

Thanks, man ! This is crazy cool ! Now I feel my lungs larger and even my voice changes and become more manlike !!

Yes it works very well, i got them now at 4 or 4,20 min, taking 3 min recovery each time

Great lesson bro. I have always had the approach of just "toughing out" statics, which makes them a bit unpleasant. I am going to start again with this approach, and am looking forward to building up a nice comfortable 3 minutes. Thanks again! Love your work boss

When a man with jawline like that talks about something fitness related, I listen.

im asthmatic so started just to see how far i could go if i pushed an got to a respectable 1:55 in 2 days while my average was under 20 seconds. i do it before bed because in such a weird way the feeling your lungs are about to pop is really meditative and relaxing!

Thanks for this, it's a great way to do it that I've never heard before, it will be my CO2 build up routine from now on 🤙🏻

I've always enjoyed breath holds, ever since i was a kid. The stressful phases you describe never felt bad to me.

I love your logo and thank you for the info

Great philosophies 🙏

I actually Increase In Motivation instead of Decrease This tip Was Useless For me But Good tip to Give for the others who lose motivation Holding your breath is all about 1.Having a Calm Mind 2.expanding your lungs 3. Exploding your lungs 4..for swimmings, divings and for deep diving

Thank You for this. I feel more confident about my personal process thanks to your explanation..

Really great content, thank you. Subscribed. I have a question: are you doing special breathing before these breath holds, for example, three seconds in and six seconds out for a few minutes, or are you just doing tidal breathing?

Great information and explanation - thank you for sharing Harry :)

Very good insight. After reaching 5.00 dry a year ago, I got demotivated and had trouble finding motivating to come back to that level. I will try your method and treat myself better in the beginning and write down my training program. Thanks.. Very interesting insights. I this happens a lot. We had a lady in our freediving club which was very advanced. She quit and sold all her gear at some point,, simple because she realised that she did not enjoy it no longer to push herself so hard. It is like Tom Cruize trading for mission impossible . He get to 6.30 min quickly but hated every minute doing it. Would never do it again..

Appreciated as always Harry

Good vid Harry. I'm just starting with some tables at the moment. Nice timing

Great video!

Hey, your videos are really helpful and I appreciate the insights. Please consider lowering the volume of your intro music. It's like twice as loud as your voice and blasts my speakers every time. Thanks.

Great content and informative.. Thanks for your efforts.

Thank you Harry.

thanks mate, very thorough and information 🙏

Than you!

Very helpful. Thanks.

I pushed my limit about 7 months ago and hit 4:30, but after a little bit I started to only be able to hit about 3:30 minutes then I gave up. maybe I overworked myself? I can consistently get to 2:30 with no breathing exercises/discomfort, and with breathing exercises and a bit of discomfort probably more around 3:30. I assume I should just practice doing holds around or a little longer than 2:30 for now

I make it to 3 minutes but I start feeling my stomach contracting after a minute or a minute and a half and it keeps contracting but it starts contracting before it gets uncomfortable.

Thank you

Thanks for the good work

How long do you rest/breath between each of the 4 breath holds? The CO2 Tables I have been using run a series of 8 breath holds of the same duration with the rest interval deccreasing 15 sec each time. Example 2 min hold 1:45 rest with the last two 2 min hold 30 sec rest

Thanks man!

Thanks for the video. How long breath up and recovery between breath holds would you recommend?

Very intresting but I don't understand where ends comfort zone and starts though zone?, because he speaks about contractions, for me comfort zone end even before contractions starts, because after 1 or 3 contraction I can hold breath maybe 20, 30 second more.

I've always loved freediving, but I'm in the early stage of COPD. I want to learn how to manage it, so I can start diving again. Fortunately, my backup hypoxic drive hasn't kicked in yet and I'm hoping the training will help deal with this a little better.

something you dont explain: how should we breathe before the breath hold? nose, mouth? hiperventilate or not?

Hi, thanks for the video it’s really helping. One question: do you completely empty your kings before the last breath or do you just directly switch from regular tidal breathing to the last breath? Thank you!

Im an above average freediver and Ive never been in any training just an experience from being a fisherman since my childhold but when I tried spearfishing things have changed. I was having difficulties in holding my breath longer.

Thanks for this video, Harry. Just two questions; 1. how should you breathe in between breath holds? (normal breathing or otherwise) 2. how long of a recovery time should you have in between breath holds? Much aloha from Hawaii.

Thank you ! I think i will start trying this soon :)

You talk about contractions and the tough zone. When I hols my breath my though zone prolongs a lot before i feel any contractions (I cant actually force it in dry). The tough zone requires contractions or you are refering the urge to breath after the confort zone?

Great video. Can you pls detail a little bit more on CO2 dry static tables, doing it on empty lungs (RV) is the right approach? You save a lot of time. Thanks man! 🙏🤿

Hello. great video there! Thank you for it! I want to ask how many sets of 4 breath holds good to do per day?

Been doing this for a week or two now and increased my comfort zone by 50% so far. As I progress I notice that my first hold invariably sucks although it's sucking slightly less as sessions go by. Discomfort and contractions can often start early. Do you think doing a 1 Min warm up hold would be a good idea before the 4 holds? I'm doing mindful breathing and/ or alternate nostril breathing for a few minutes before starting.

Hi Harry, how long would you recommend rest/breathe up between each breathhold?

Hi Harry, thanks for sharing this informations. My question is: do you warm up or stretch before this dry tables or just start cold with the first breath hold? Thanks! 😌👌

hey man quick question what IS a contraction ? thanks for the vid- tryna improve my breath hold for surfing!!

Hey, how far apart should I do my breath holds each day? Should I do them in one session, say like within one hour? Or should I do them like 3 hours apart? Just did my first 2:17 and I feel I was still in my comfort zone.

How much rest should a person take between the 4 static breath hold sets? Thanks

It’s coming summer time I think I’m going to do a mix of static and pool trainings.

Great video. Did I miss what the breathing gap should be in-between breath-holds?

What is your recommendation for the recovery breathing time?

Hi Harry, some great replies here so hoping you may be able to help me. I've been spearfishing for like 5 years now and have never trained my breatholds particularly well but did some co2 tables towards the end of last year and started a couple weeks ago. My static pb is just 1:45ish and while spearing maybe up to 1 min wet. I have never experienced contractions. Is this possible or am I simply just not pushing myself into the "tough zone" you describe?

Hi Harry, do you do this training with a few warm up breath holds before you start the session, or is this training is to build a no warm up base hold? I’m one of those lucky few that gets super early contractions. Without warm up for dry static, I’ll always feel a minor contractions around the same time on the first lap and it gets uncomfortable really early. But on my second lap onwards, it comes a little later.

I watched another video that said you shouldn’t practice daily, but rather 2-3x per week due to the effect of iron levels in your blood, if I understood correctly. What’s your opinion on this? Thanks. 🙏

can i still do this if i smoke 4 - 5 joints per day?

How long are you breaking for between static breath holds? I have heard elsewhere that the breaks can be reduced.

How do you prepare for the training you talk about at 5:00 ? Do you take just one deep breath or more? Or is it just about the contractions? For example: one deep breath, contractions start at 1 min and five deep breath, contractions start at 2 min = same effect because CO2 number is the same just at another point?

What do you do at the beginning of the breath holds? Do you start by relaxing for 2 minutes or breathing deeply for X amount of time. And in between breath holds do you breathe normally for a minute or breathe deeply for two minutes before you go back into the next breath hold?

Should i hold my breath while walking or laying down? Does it make a difference?

Hi Harry, thanks for this vid. I just wanted to ask if you have ever tried a similar approach to dynamics ? thanks, Jamie : )

What if i can only hold for around 1 min at top ?

What does he mean by contractions some1 tell me

HI been watching your vids and i just went for my first breath hold!!! i cant ignore the CO2 urge to breath!!! I try to ignore it but still have to breath when the urge comes!!! Even when i resist! After about 20 seconds!! What can i do? Thanks

Hi, I practice buteyko. We breath hold after the exhale. Do You have any experience with this method?

can someone explain me what he means with contractions? :)

Lovely stuff . What types of breathing do you do in between breathold? And is it holding on the exhale?

i am 14 and my rekord breathhold was2:50 cause i havent trained for a long time i can hold my breath just for 2 mins what should i do. i get my divereflex very fast

What do you mean by contractions? Is that letting the breath out?

Does training to hold your breath increase lung capacity or just carbon dioxide tolerance?

I've been watching breath hold videos lately to include freediving videos because I'm gassing out in my martial arts training. Do you think that this kind of CO2 training would help me improve my endurance and cardio for martial arts?

Can you do this training sitting cross legs? Is it OK.

This will sound crazy, but I wonder if a freediver is more resilient when getting a sever form of covid - the expanded lungs' capacity must be advantageous, no?

What are contractions?

Does this have to be done underwater?

what do u mean by contractions?

I decided to become mermaid for a job so its very important to learn this without harming myself. Thank you, how much could I progress aprox in 4 months?

Movember!

What is a contraction?

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"Better to do 15-20 2 Minute breath holds per week" XD I can't even hold my breath for more than 1 minute 🙃

New friend and support here. Dive ON! 🤝🔔💯🙏 im new to this bro...

Fking hell are you a scouser or a viking? Can't put my finger on it. Cheers though mate great vid!

Here is the real secret. Drink a lot of beer and keep pushing how long you can wait to pee. This will make breath holding way easy.

2 min 😆. I get 40 seconds 😆🙈

thank you