How long can you hold your beath?

Chuck Norris once held his breath for 3 hours, but then gave up because everyone else had died due to unrelated roundhouse incidents.
 
4m01s for me :D Quite chuffed at that, last time I tried was years ago! My stomach was proper spazzing out though, anybody else's do that? It was like incontrolably pushing in and out.
 
jonislost said:
4m01s for me :D Quite chuffed at that, last time I tried was years ago! My stomach was proper spazzing out though, anybody else's do that? It was like incontrolably pushing in and out.
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for the first 15 seconds, and the last few seconds, my heart pounds so hard it makes me feel sick. It pounds so hard you'd think it would explode :eek:
 
Just 75-80 seconds before I get hayfever induced sneeze. :D

My heart rate goes down when I hold my breath. 10 years ago at my fitness peak (lots of cycling) I could get my heart rate down to just over 30 BPM by holding my breath.
My cousin (a gymrat) said his heart rate goes up when he holds his breath.

What does everyone else's heart rate do? what's 'normal'?
 
I always thought about 30 seconds was normal, but due to the rather higher figures posted, that must not be the case. Wikipedia says 2mins is about the normal maximum, so either threse lots of uber fit athletes on OcUK, or someones telling porkies :D
 
GreatAuk said:
I always thought about 30 seconds was normal, but due to the rather higher figures posted, that must not be the case. Wikipedia says 2mins is about the normal maximum, so either threse lots of uber fit athletes on OcUK, or someones telling porkies :D
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of course they are telling lies ;) , unless when they play the sniper in cod4 they do actually hold thier breath..... in which case 2 years of constant playing might help you out... :rolleyes:
 
ProTip: Take a few deep breaths before the final deep breath ;)

Just managed 1:15 - should use my own ProTip (and quit smoking) :(

Edit: ProTip revised edition - don't take deep breaths prior to holding your breath underwater; you're likely to fall unconcious and die, without ever feeling like you need to breath. The feeling of needing to take a breath comes from an abundance of CO2 in your blood, not a lack of Oxygen. You are given no sign, other than falling unconcious, that you are lacking Oxygen. So when you take a few deep breaths, you disturb the equilibrium between Oxygen and CO2 in your bloodstream, and therefore you run out of Oxygen before your body tells you to take a breath because of a surplus of CO2. God bless Wikipedia. :p
 
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About 55 seconds. I really want to learn how to free dive but the courses are so expensive.

I was told that to hold your breath for a long time you have to take 3 short breaths and fill up the lower part of your stomach first then middle and upper part (chest) I was with a free diver when i was in australia and he came up after about 3 minutes.

I find it amazing that the free dive depth record is 122 metres!!! I would love to be able to hold my breath for 5 minutes to be able to dive to around 20 or 30 metres and snorkel for a while. I managed to get to around 15 metres, grab some sand then surface
 
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I was told that to hold your breath for a long time you have to take 3 short breaths and fill up the lower part of your stomach first then middle and upper part (chest) I was with a free diver when i was in australia and he came up after about 3 minutes.
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Stomach? Fill it up with what? :confused:
 
Funny, I can run 5km in 20 minutes but I can't beat the average computer geek at a breath holding contest :D

Can only manage about 1:40 myself but I guess I only gave up smoking recently.
 
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