Good morning friends!
Okay, today I am going to show you my morning routine and training schedule for freediving.
So I have started freediving again and I am loving it!
I feel like myself.
I used to free dive a lot as a kid and really got into it my sophomore year of high school,
but it has been many a year since my sophomore year of high school.
So, I wanted to start doing it again because I can't do any of the sports that I used to
do like Cross-fit because of my chronic illnesses.
And freediving is a sport that is now significantly more dangerous because of my heart condition,
but it's like the only thing I can do and it's something that brings me the most joy
in the entire world.
For today it is drylands training.
I usually start the morning with like 32+ ounces of electrolyte water because water's
really good for you and then because I have POTS it's really important for me to get electrolytes
into my body even though I haven't technically sweat any out.
It's really important that I get those into my system.
For breakfast, I usually have something that is full of carbs.
It can be toast or rice cakes, but today it is oats, a fruit (I have apples sometimes
I'll do peaches), I've put some chia seeds in here and a little bit of sugar-free all
natural maple syrup because yum.
There's also cinnamon in here I tried to make it look semi nice, usually I just chuck everything
in there and don't really care.
It looks okay.
That's usually what I have for breakfast because having something that's full of a lot of carbs
and nutrient dense protein, especially oatmeal is something that kind of digest slowly so
you get that carb energy throughout the day.
Especially with a sport like freedving where you're putting your body under a lot of strain
and a lot of pressure, it's really important that you get energy that will sustain you
because skipping breakfast and then doing a freedive training session, or just diving,
in general, is going to really harm you.
It can cause you to black out either on land or in the water- both of which you don't want.
And especially because I'm me, I black out all the time anyway, and so now that I'm back
freediving and freedive training, I'm very very conscious and aware of how much pressure
I put my body under.
So yeah, there my breakfast.
I'm going to eat it cause I'm starving.
I have utterly devoured breakfast.
Now I am really full.
I don't do training, you shouldn't do training, right after you eat because you know how like
when you're super full you just almost can't breathe?
Yeah, see that's a problem with a sport that focuses on breathing.
I usually wait about 45 minutes to an hour after I eat to start training, in that time
I will work on any college class work I have, I'll clean, do my hair, actually get dressed.
I'm gonna clean the house and I will see you when I start training.
My food has had time to settle, I also had about 16 more ounces of water.
I usually start the day with about 2-5 minutes of just breathing, just sitting and breathing
normally to get my body calmed down and relaxed.
Becaue if you're stressed while you're doing training or you're stressed while you're diving
then you might as well not even do it because it's not going to help you at all.
You're going to use way more oxygen, you're not going to get anywhere, and that's not
what you want to be doing.
Try to sit as straight-backed as you possibly can.
I'm also wearing my baggy-est pair of sweatpants, my loosest fitting sweatpants, because I find
that if I'm wearing a pair of tight leggings that sits at my belly button then I feel really
compressed, and you want to be totally relaxed and be able to push your stomach in and out
throughout the morning training.
I have also invested, I say invested they were like $3, in a nose clip.
So these are Finis nose clips, I just put them on my nostrils that way I'm breathing
through my mouth because obviously when you're freediving, you're not breathing at all, but
I have a mask over my face that covers my nose so if I exhale I don't want to be exhaling
through my nose at all unless I'm equalizing but that's for another video.
I want to make sure that I'm getting full breaths through my mouth so I wear these to
make sure that happens.
Because my heart condition causes my heart rate to be really high I always have this by me
I recommend anyone doing freediving have one because it's nice to know where your oxygen
and your heart rate are considering you have to be very aware of those things regardless,
but this is my best friend.
I always have it on me because if my heart rate shoots really fast then I have to stop
what I'm doing and lay down so that I don't pass out.
Now, I go on to my kind of freediving routine.
This consists of, sitting cross-legged like I am now, doing spinal rotations, static stretch
(with my arms above my head like I'm diving), spinal flexes, another static stretch, spinal
twists, another static stretch, neck rolls, and then side bends.
That is just time to loosen up my body and figure out where it's gonna be.
A few things that I wanted to mention about some of the stretches.
Let me know if you want a detailed training routine and explaining of each of the stretches
videos, I would be happy to do that but this is just a quick morning routine I'm not gonna
get really into it.
But, I did want to explain one thing: for the static stretch with the arms above the
head that involves holding my breath.
When I hold my breath during training I like to hold my breath and keep my mouth open.
Because when you take a breath [inhales] and leave your mouth open it gives you the ability
to stop the air from coming out back here in the glottis rather than at your lips.
When you hold your breath [inhales and exhales] and it comes out your mouth like that when
you open your mouth, then you're not actually keeping the oxygen in your body where it needs to be.
You're letting it sit in your mouth and not do anything for you.
I also want to mention that when I'm doing the stretches my back is straight, but when
you put your arms above your head, you tend to arch your back, and so I like to make sure
that my back is continuing to be straight, I active my abs and pull my shoulders as close
to my ears as possible to make sure that I'm activating the muscles I would be when I'm diving.
Then I get into tables, which are by far my favorite part of training.
So, today is an other day for me so every other day, 3 times a week, I do CO2 Tables,
and then twice a week I do O2 Tables.
So, what my CO2 Table looks like, umm a CO2 table in the simplest explanation possible
is keeping how long you hold your breath the same, but giving you less and less time to
recover in between the next breath hold.
What it does is helps your body become accustomed to the CO2 that's gonna build up.
When you hold your breath for a really long time, you have oxygen in your body, your body
is going to use that oxygen but you're not going to be exhaling the CO2 so it's going
to stay in your body.
So, what CO2 tables help you do is help your body get used to that build up of CO2 while
you're holding your breath.
One of mine looks something like this; the hold is 30 seconds and the recovery time goes
down farther and farther.
Obviously, the hold could be higher and the recovery time could be even shorter, but this
is just an example of one of the ones I have.
My favorite favorite thing, I don't know why I love it so much, is the square.
This is what the square looks like.
I can change it depending on how I'm feeling or what I want to do, but basically, I breathe
for 10 seconds, hold for 10 seconds, then I exhale for 5 seconds, and hold empty for
5 seconds and keep doing that in a square, technically a circle, but it has corners so
it's a square, for 10 minutes.
I do this twice a day at the very least sometimes more because it's really simple, it gets my
heart rate down, it gives me control of my breath and you can really tell that it's becoming
easier and easier to hold your breath the longer you get into the square.
That is basically it for my morning.
This takes anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour really, sometimes more depending on
what I feel like doing, then I also have some weights that I'll use every now and then to
do some squats, push-ups, I like to work on my core because my core is super weak.
But yeah, there's my morning routine for dry training.
I'll show you guys wet training as soon as it stops raining.
Let me know what you guys thought.
If there are specific parts you wanted me to go more in depth to, those kind of things.
Honestly let me know because this is my favorite thing ever, I'll talk about it forever.
Rejoice in the day and be glad in it.
I will see you guys in my next video, bye!
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