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Originally Posted by stikfigure
just curious 5k: when you use the term apnea in your training are you going for anaerobic workout? (maybe I should read your complete journal - apologies if the explanation is in there somewhere...)
...I'm wondering how to do a cardiovascular workout without using the muscles of respiration....
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No that's okay stikfigure.
The apnea parts of the training are breath-hold areas; odd sounding I know, let me explain. So my 5*5 is 5 steps on the stepper (which is actually 20 foot movements); first 5 are done holding the breath, second lot of 5 (20) done breathing...nose clip used throughout. As I get in to the workout and toward the end it really gets hard...however at the moment I am counting steps because there is just no way I can do 45 seconds (like some more experienced people in the sport), so am building step counts up, last time I did 6 (24) in a row, and once in a while I will see how many I can do before I need to breath. At college I will also climb the stairs, ensuring that it is not to the point of being taxing, or walk along a corridor, holding my breath, which give me some indication of distance travelled. This allows me to look back and see what sort of depth I may be able to reeach under water...of course, taking in to the equation the efforet needed for flipper work, so I either divide the distance by 1/3 or a 1/2...to give a more reasonable distance. This training is done in order to build up the use of muscles whilst breath holding, because it replicates what has to be done under water.
The weight training is done the same way, breath held throughout the lifts, but I may separate a set down in to 10 / 5/ 5 depending on how tiring it is etc.
And all the apnea elements are done with a lot less intensity because they are not for the purpose of intensity per se, but for the tolerance and ability to be able to get rid of lactic acid when doing freediving.
I hope that helped...if not just ask again, got to go have tea now
