This article is a short review of FreeXperience’s book “Freediving”. Written by Kimmo Lahtinen, Simo Kurra and Ari Nissinen, this book reflects years of experience in freediving education.
Reading time for this article is about 5 minutes.
Unlike most manuals …
When freediving in Vancouver, Canada, nothing comes for free. You need to be able to cope with bad visibility, freezing cold, and high currents on nearly every dive. With Vancouver as our home-base, a trip to the Philippines in February …
How much training is enough? How much training should you do today? Did you recover from yesterday’s exercise? Are you coping well with your training or not?
Many of these questions can be answered by using heart rate variability and …
My book, ‘Longer and Deeper: cross training for freediving and spearfishing’, is nearly ready. I’m very excited to finally share a sample with you.
I’m also very proud that Aolin Wang, the national record holder of China has written a …
Contractions are the blessing and curse of every breath hold. Contractions provide an easy way to gauge whether your dive is coming to an end. Unfortunately your first contraction also marks the start of the struggle (the struggle phase of …
Sometimes it is hard to fit in breath hold exercises on a day to day basis. Waking up early to head to an office job and then back in the evening is time and energy consuming on its own. You …
The best exercises are those that don’t feel like exercises. If you don’t enjoy doing static or dynamic sessions, there are still ways you can train. You simply need to find some fun things to do underwater. Here are some …
You did the perfect duckdive, had the most relaxed descent you have ever had, and turn with a tag in your hand. Or perhaps you waited at the bottom, speared a good fish, and start swimming back up.
And your …
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 …
