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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mechanic on August 08, 2013, 05:36:13 PM
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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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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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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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Wtg on holding your breath and on quitting smoking. :cheers:
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Well that certainly would explain the strange whale sightings in the swimming pool, huh Bat? :D
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That's awesome! Great job quitting smoking too! :aok
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WTG :cheers:
I get winded tying my skates for a hockey game :cry
Sad isn't it. :(
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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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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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It is minutes. Batty is the Man from Atlantis :old:
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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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXQbucZUDA)
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wow, 58m deep is intimidating. The pool I swim in is only 4m deep and that feels heavy
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Congrats on kicking the habit and getting healthy again. Now go get scuba certified and really enjoy being underwater.
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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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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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WTG!
I look up to anyone who is able to set himself a personal go and works on it until it's reached. :salute
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WTG Bat! :rock
You dudes that are part fish make me feel like I am a missed step in evolution. :(
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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
Hmmm, someone has waayy to much "free time" :devil :bolt:
Way to go batman. :D
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wow, 58m deep is intimidating. The pool I swim in is only 4m deep and that feels heavy
Where did you get 58m deep? He's talking distance, not depth. That would be over 190ft deep.
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Congrats.
Makes me think of a vice I've needed to give up; Copenhagen
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Where did you get 58m deep? He's talking distance, not depth. That would be over 190ft deep.
In the link I posted above.
The NZ guy freedived the Arch at the Dahab Blue Hole: 58m down, 30 horizontal and then 58m up.... :O
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well done Bat,
Smoking is such a horrible habit and congrats for kicking that also.
I bought a house yesterday and that was nearly 3 years of saving every penny. :cheers:
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Cheers guys! I had to share this news, I was very happy. At the pool when it happened no one even noticed. They just wondered why I was smiling to myself like an idiot.
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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
how do you relax?
When I try this , my body quivers, I gets anxious.
And congrats on quiting. :rock
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In the link I posted above.
The NZ guy freedived the Arch at the Dahab Blue Hole: 58m down, 30 horizontal and then 58m up.... :O
Ah! I didn't read the link and couldn't figure that one out. Still that is waaaay too deep to be freediving.
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Cheers guys! I had to share this news, I was very happy. At the pool when it happened no one even noticed. They just wondered why I was smiling to myself like an idiot.
The most important person at that pool noticed..way to go Bat!