How long does it take to hold your breath in free diving?

Free diving takes 2 minutes to hold your breath. Practice holding your breath: control the volume of the last full breath before holding your breath (full breath means sucking the abdomen first and then the chest). For beginners, total breathing will bring tension to the heart, chest and lungs, making it difficult to relax. Although more air is inhaled, nervousness will shorten the time to hold your breath.

Free diving was selected by Forbes magazine as the second largest extreme sport in the world, and its danger is second only to skydiving. Free diving refers to the movement of diving into the bottom of the sea only by self-regulating abdominal breathing and holding your breath without carrying an oxygen bottle. Free diving includes entertainment, photography, hunting and experience activities, as well as competitive deep diving.

Practice holding your breath: control the volume of the last full breath before holding your breath (full breath means sucking the abdomen first and then the chest). For beginners, total breathing will bring tension to the heart, chest and lungs, making it difficult to relax. Although more air is inhaled, nervousness will shorten the time to hold your breath. For students who have just started practicing, they can start from 85% full, and with the increase of training times, they can slowly suck more full.

Free diving pranayama note: 1. Take a deep breath and breathe slowly for a long time.

2. Breathe only through your mouth

3. Exhale takes about twice as long as inhale (for reference only: inhale for 3 seconds, exhale for 6 seconds).

4. Breathe for about 2 minutes before holding your breath, and the last 1-2 breaths are full breathing (first to the abdomen, then to the chest).