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Old 06-22-2016, 06:26 PM   #46
Mullins
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Re: How long can you hold your breath?

Got a link to any tests/studies on that, Lance? My understanding is that quite a few top freedivers are anaemic, particularly while training for depth. That's just anecdotal though. I haven't had a blood test so I don't know about myself. It's a bit counterintuitive but physiological responses to apnea are very different from those to 'breathing exercise' i.e. pretty much everything else. In simple terms, I think that the way your body distributes oxygen while in apnea is far, far more important than how much it stores. I can give quite a few examples on that...
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