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Did a 400 while holding my breath(almost). I had to breathe with about 5 meters to go. That 400 was a 66. Averaged 64.8 for the 20 that day. Everyone else gave up on holding their breath about 20 meters into the 400.
dundermufflin wrote:
Averaged 64.8 for the 20 that day.
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Cynical. wrote:
dundermufflin wrote:Averaged 64.8 for the 20 that day.
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20x400 workout. Rest was 200 jog + like 5 seconds of standing.
A friend of mine suffers from Paulson's epidermal oxygen absorption syndrome. He can actually absorb oxygen through his skin as long as he is sitting in his chair without doing anything vigorous. I saw him hold his breath once during an entire 15 min half time NBA game.
Bud Edelen could run 300m intervals holding his breath. Of course that was about 50 years ago.
I am a Dolphin from Miami. (Using a special software program from UC San Diego that converts my audio signals to human language which then is converted to typed words onto the Internet).
I can hold my breath for ~33 minutes.
bump. I tried this after my run yesterday. I made it 218 meters (42 seconds) as measured by gmap-pedometer. I took deep breaths for about 2 minutes before starting.
I've read that the limiting factor here is not actually running low on oxygen, but your blood getting acidic due to buildup of CO2. And that it's possible for your body to adapt to that acidity - which might help explain how there are people who can chill underwater for *23 minutes* before coming up for air. Now, those records are set after hyperventilating on pure oxygen for 20min, and being underwater triggers the mammalian diving reflex which is claimed to suppress metabolic activity by 10-30%. But the underwater record without oxygen is still a little over 12 minutes, and even knocking that down a bit for the diving reflex, these people can hold their breath at *least* three times as long as I can. Maybe that's because they're going into a trance state and using only 1/3 the air that I do. But maybe it's half that, and half being able to deal with more CO2 in their blood, or pack more air into their lungs, or whatever. If it's the latter, it seems to me like there should be a lot of room for improvement on my 218m mark.
(1) I would love some other people to try this, and post how far they made it.
(2) What sort of training should I do to prepare? Breath holding exercises and running while holding my breath, I assume, but anything less obvious?
(3) Can I break the 400m mark? Or will I never even crack 240m?
Is there any benefits from this ?? Never tried it.
Just tried it and got 140m. Pussied out but even if I didn't I couldn't have gone past 160. Wasn't completely recovered either but when I finished I could really feel the lactic acid in my legs like I just did a hard hill workout.
I ran 203m in 37 seconds yesterday without any training. I took in a deep breath and didn't exhale until I stopped. I'm an experienced ultra marathon runner.
I suspect 400m would be possible with specific training...but it is hard to imagine someone going much beyond that.
xtb cds wrote:
A friend of mine suffers from Paulson's epidermal oxygen absorption syndrome. He can actually absorb oxygen through his skin as long as he is sitting in his chair without doing anything vigorous. I saw him hold his breath once during an entire 15 min half time NBA game.
Amazing, I witnessed your mum do it for half an hour once. (Its up to you to imagine what we were doing)