How long can you hold your beath?

bledd. said:
i'm calling bs on about 90% of you, unless you clingfilm yourface then webcam it and put it on youtube
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Why would you doubt that a person can hold their breath for 2 minutes? It's not that long a time. Besides, most of us probably arent even moving - we're just sat here looking at a computer screen.
 
I think people are missing the point that, holding your breath sitting in a chair and not moving, is very different to diving underwater and swimming around. In water I think I can do about 2 mins swimming around, whereas just sat here in my chair I can double that.
 
jonislost said:
I think people are missing the point that, holding your breath sitting in a chair and not moving, is very different to diving underwater and swimming around. In water I think I can do about 2 mins swimming around, whereas just sat here in my chair I can double that.
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Id like to see a video of you holding your breath for 4 minutes, holding your nose of course.

You are right about swimming or doing anything physical. I could hold mine (at the moment) for maybe 1 minute 50 max sitting on a chair. But if I went for a run could last maybe 20 or 30 seconds
 
My mate who runs iron mans and marathons can only hold it for 2 minutes sitting still so I'm sorry but there's a lot of BS'ing going on.
 
It's quite easy to hold your breath for 2 minutes it really isn't that hard - I don't think there's any BS. People with a low heart rate and a large thoracic capacity are clearly going to be able to hold their breath for a decent amount of time. The world record is over 15 mins, and a lot of freedivers can easily surpass the 6 minute mark without any issues.

It's learning to control your heart rate, and not panicing when your body starts to "cry" for air. It's often called the dolphin reaction, because dolphin's heart rates and and oxygen usages drop severely when they immerse themselves in water. It's quite fascinating.

So I'm afraid to all those nay sayers, you're wrong.

I don't do iron man, or much free diving though I have been taught how to do it and have done it before, and 2 minutes is a walk in the park.
 
JBuk said:
Does that not affect your next dive?
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Bit of a debate about that as one lung full of air is at ambient pressure, so your PPo2 intake should in theory be the same as if sat on the boat holding your breath.
HOWEVER, whilst you hold your breath, you are not flushing the nitrogen out at all.
 
Freefaller said:
It's quite easy to hold your breath for 2 minutes it really isn't that hard - I don't think there's any BS. People with a low heart rate and a large thoracic capacity are clearly going to be able to hold their breath for a decent amount of time. The world record is over 15 mins, and a lot of freedivers can easily surpass the 6 minute mark without any issues.

It's learning to control your heart rate, and not panicing when your body starts to "cry" for air. It's often called the dolphin reaction, because dolphin's heart rates and and oxygen usages drop severely when they immerse themselves in water. It's quite fascinating.

So I'm afraid to all those nay sayers, you're wrong.

I don't do iron man, or much free diving though I have been taught how to do it and have done it before, and 2 minutes is a walk in the park.
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I find when I do it my chest is uncomfortably tight but I have been doing a lot of chest work at the gym lately so probably muscular, still not the nicest sensation :(
 
Can hold my breath for about a minute and half, but in water this seems to drop to about 30 seconds, i just dont seem to be able to hold my breath underwater for anywhere near as long :(
 
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