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Offline mechanic

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Personal Mission Completed
« on: August 08, 2013, 05:36:13 PM »
About 4 months ago I started practicing underwater distance swimming on one breath. At first I could just about do 15m so I set the goal of 50m and today for the first time I made it. So an Olympic size pool length under water in one breath. Training to be relaxed and slow your heart down and stuff. I feel pretty damn good about that today.
164ft sounds better.  :D
 
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Re: Personal Mission Completed
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2013, 05:55:43 PM »
WTG  :cheers:

I get winded tying my skates for a hockey game  :cry

How'd you pick this goal?  Just randomly or have you joined a team or something?
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« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2013, 07:07:33 PM »
Just for fun. Since quiting smoking  three years ago I have been doing all sorts of stuff just to see if I can. Finally starting to get back to a normal healthy fitness level as if I had never smoked.

I love being in water. It's a long way to swim underwater and it really relaxes me to feel like a fish, don't know why

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« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2013, 07:15:39 PM »
Wtg on holding your breath and on quitting smoking.  :cheers:
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« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2013, 07:26:23 PM »
     Well that certainly would explain the strange whale sightings in the swimming pool, huh Bat?  :D
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« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2013, 08:17:26 PM »
That's awesome!  Great job quitting smoking too!  :aok
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Offline Slash27

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Re: Personal Mission Completed
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2013, 08:26:23 PM »
Quote from: Vudak on August 08, 2013, 05:55:43 PM
WTG  :cheers:

I get winded tying my skates for a hockey game  :cry

Sad isn't it. :(
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Offline icepac

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« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2013, 08:30:42 PM »
I used to swim great distances and depth underwater but haven't done so in 10 years.

If you're over 40, be careful as I will surely be once I start diving again.
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« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2013, 10:39:34 PM »
Quote from: mechanic on August 08, 2013, 05:36:13 PM
About 4 months ago I started practicing underwater distance swimming on one breath. At first I could just about do 15m so I set the goal of 50m and today for the first time I made it. So an Olympic size pool length under water in one breath. Training to be relaxed and slow your heart down and stuff. I feel pretty damn good about that today.
164ft sounds better.  :D
 

I had to read this twice. At first I thought the "m" represented minutes  :huh Then it dawned on me "m" stands for meters  :lol :rolleyes:


nevertheless, great job Batty !  :cheers:
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« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2013, 01:20:31 AM »
It is minutes. Batty is the Man from Atlantis  :old:

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« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2013, 03:05:35 AM »
WTG!  :aok

No small feat. I only succeeded to do this once without fins.

Please get a buddy watching over you while you're swimming more than 30m or staying more than 1 min underwater. If you ever pass out, it's game over.


Some apnea-athletes are real aliens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXQbucZUDA
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« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2013, 10:51:27 AM »
wow, 58m deep is intimidating. The pool I swim in is only 4m deep and that feels heavy
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« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2013, 10:52:37 AM »
Congrats on kicking the habit and getting healthy again. Now go get scuba certified and really enjoy being underwater.
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« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2013, 11:34:38 AM »
We used to use a oldsmobile cylinder head to pull us down and a lobster trap winch to pull it back up.

Have to be careful not to get a loop around you or the weight could snare you and hold you underwater though I was able to swim up some pretty heavy stuff before.
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« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2013, 11:57:10 AM »
50 metres is indeed quite a good distance, wtg! What I've found hard in accomplishing it is the turns at each end. Don't know if I still were able to, it's been about 30 years since the last time. Haven't been swimming in inside pools much after school.
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