How can I hold my breath longer?

Question

I can hold it between 35-60 seconds on average. I used to swim but I haven't in a few years and I'm going to start again and I want to get my breathing built up again. Any tips? I'd like to go for at least 2 minutes. This is for pool swimming. Not beach. Thanks.

Answer 1

you have to do some basket ball or football and then you will be able to breath quickly and eventually for a long time

also try taking a few deep breaths before you try to break yuor record as it infiltrates your blood with air.

good luck

Answer 2

talk to someone who is a musician, especially someone who plays a wind instrument. having played a brass instrument since the age of 8 ive had to do my share of breathing excercises to expand lung capacity and that helps you to hold you breath longer

Answer 3

We do something called lung busters on the swim team. Usually we do sets of 4, 25 yard swims where we swim underwater or on top of the water (we usually alternate the types we do for optimum workout) and hold our breath until we get to the other side. You can increase the distance and the frequency to get more of a workout.

Answer 4

i guess the basketball football thing would be to get your cardio up, which could possibly make holding your breath a whole lot easier.

Answer 5

Our coach would make us do 9 25's on no breath and when you got done with each one you ran back and did your next immediately. Then on the 10th you stayed on the shallow end hyperventilated for 10 sec and then do a no breath sprint for as long as you could. It was hard at first, but after pass the threshold and get light headed it gets a lot easier.

Answer 6

Never heard of that either. I am on the swim team currently. What I do is do breathholding every other day. We have sets were we do a four hundred free continuous but each hundred you breath different. The first hundred you breath every third stroke, the second 100 every fifth, the third every 7th, and the fourth every 9th stroke. Also we do breath holding exercises about once a week were you just go down as long as you can. This builds your lung muscles up. Hope this helps.