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116. Why You Need To Relearn How To Breathe | James Nestor

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Free Diving - Do They Prepare Similar to Wimhof?

Don't ever do whim hoff in a bath tub. Don't ever do it before you go into a pool. People have died doing this on your sofa. Mosto, all the divers i met, they breathe very s before they dive. They'll breathe a big breath, but it will be a slow and calm breath to calm themselves down. It's a lot harder to hold your breath that way at the beginning,. But this is the better way of free diving. The need to breathe is not triggered by oxygen. It's triggered by an increase of c o two. So with free diving, what you really want to train yourself to do is to naturally be able to accept that

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