Other/Mixed Breath Hold Test

[wespom9]

It takes just over a minute to complete, and I do the whole thing as a breath hold - normal exhale, close mouth and pinch nose closed, and walk/run with one hand holding my nose and the other swinging.

-S-

What the neighbours must think Steve! haha

 

[Steve Freides]

What the neighbours must think Steve! haha

Yeah, it's a little weird at times.

-S-

 

[Tobias K.]

I got 24 sec. and (surprisingly) 90 sec.

 

[North Coast Miller]

30 to first diaphragm contraction, 47 to inhale. Pretty sure I've gone a lot longer getting rid of hiccups, but that's more motivation.

 

[Benjamin Renaud]

I've been practicing a breathing exercise from The Oxygen Advantage lately called "Breathe light to breathe right" and I'm sure it's helped a lot with the breath hold test because I got 35sec to first diaphragm contraction and 75sec to inhale. Surprised even myself with this one. I've been doing that particular exercise for about a month.

I've been unable to train as much as I wanted lately due to a nagging tendinopathy at the medial knee, focusing on breathing drills and diet had been my main focus to maintain some form of fitness.

 

[Pasibrzuch]

14s till the first contraction, 50s total max.
Low skill, high willpower, story of my life

On a serious note, the result clearly shows I need this course.

 

[Don Fairbanks]

14s till the first contraction, 50s total max.
Low skill, high willpower, story of my life

On a serious note, the result clearly shows I need this course.

Began to reread The Oxygen Advantage yesterday. In the intro. the author addresses your point.
" We can survive for a few weeks without food,a few days without water, and a few minutes without breathing. How much attention do you pay to the quantity of the air you breathe ? " Important skill for everyone to learn.

 

[Pasibrzuch]

In wait for the course, is doing apnea tables with breathholds on exhale an effective and safe way of hypoxic training?

 

[Bauer]

Same here, holding my breath ?

18 seconds easy, 38 seconds total, on a full stomach.

Update:
My new Hench score is 88 seconds (first difficulties after 22 seconds), improving my score by 50 seconds. I have done a mere 31 hypoxic sessions in three months with rather low volume, so basically 3-6 sets every three days.

Interestingy I did not feel like I progressed much during the past two months. A couple of weeks ago I checked the Hench test in a stressed state and only got 45 seconds or so. Thus, context matters. I usually take 2-3 minutes of rest between breath-ups and 3-5 minutes between working sets.

And when I started, breathing through a single straw made me panic a little, and now I can easily breath through 3 1/2 straws (at least lying on the sofa and after some minutes with two straws).

Superdeep Breathing is also getting easier and I feel like my rib cage has widened a bit. I once did a VLC test during a routine check and hope to do one again, sometime. And the recovery tactics work great, too.

Driving home from vacation I recently did some slow outbreaths through pursed lips and could feel how I relaxed and my cognition improved, enabling me to drive a bit longer without getting tired.

Conclusion: Second Wind rocks!