I did not start this website to make money (but I sure wouldn’t mind if I stopped losing it). Freedive Wire has been in existence since 2015 and started as a community website, and gradually changed in what you see …
How should we train? Is strength training for freediving a good idea? Are bigger muscles better or worse? Should we hit up the gym in the off season?
I have alluded to some of these questions in previous posts and …
Rome wasn’t built in one day, you won’t be able to do the split tomorrow and you are not going to increase your breath hold by 3 minutes overnight.
You might have some freediving goals for yourself in 2018. Perhaps …
So you want to increase lung volume? There are several ways to do this, but you should probably start with becoming a better breather. That means, you should be able to fill up the entire volume of your lungs with …
This post goes with a webinar that I gave on data collected with the Moxy Muscle oxygen monitor. In the webinar I test some specific exercises and try to speculate on myoglobin desaturation and training to increase myoglobin stores.
I …
Is freediving an equal opportunity sport? Is participation different for men and women? What about the way freediving women are perceived on social media, or how they are represented?
We wondered about these questions, but cannot answer them from our …
We at Freedive Wire are excited to announce Airpockets. Airpockets is a map that allows you to share and find places you love to dive, as well courses, workshops and more.
…Airpockets: share places you love to dive,
find places
The MOXY is a muscle oxygen sensor that can measure the saturation of hemoglobin and myoglobin of for example your quads.
Do you think your apnea walks are effective?
They might be. You can practice apnea walking with an oximeter…
A study that has recently gone to press (Bilaut et al., in press) suggests that elite freediving may cause mild, but persistent short term memory loss. The study subjected elite freedivers (>6 min static breath hold), novice freedivers (>4 min …
Staying warm while freediving is an art, especially in colder waters. During a normal 2-hour dive session you can easily lose more than 700 kcal just on heat loss, and if you lose heat too fast, your dive session will …