idk what to call it yet but it seems to me like it needs a name. this is a breathwork/bodywork routine that i have started to do on pretty much a daily basis:
1. run a bath that is hot, just hot enough to be uncomfortable, but not enough to make you get burny feeling in your skin. somewhere around 42'C
2. soak in it. alternate between sitting up (usually the best start) and then lay back and let your torso rise and probably your head will sit against the edge of the bathtub behind you. do this at least 3 times. this ensures your whole body temperature rises, raising your core temperature to about equal to if you did about 5 minutes of vigorous cardio. this is key.
3. next, on all fours, forward, wait for a full inbreath, then you dunk your head under the water, nose pinched, and hold your breath. count seconds, whatever method you like, thousand or mississipi or whatever your taste is. hold it as long as you can, until you feel a strong urge to breathe again. then get your head out, and let your breath settle. repeat this 3 times.
whatever you want in between, wash, if you want to, or not.
4. turn on the shower cold and cool everything down on your skin. not sure what this does exactly but i started doing it on and off back in 2012 after reading jack kruse, he said it helps you develop better body temperature regulation. it's also quite invigorating. at first you don't want to do it, but after you do it a few times you stop caring. it's the procedure.
i can now typically hold my breath somewhere between 30 and 40 seconds, record about 42 seconds.
there's a following phase after you get past somewhere between 45 and 60 seconds where you break through some "wall" that free divers talk about. at this point, when you feel yourself break through, get back up, keep holding, and lie backwards with your head resting against the back of the bathtub. this is important, because once you break the wall, you can hold your breath until you pass out. being in this position, you will just wake up and suck in breath and be conscious again very quickly.
i'm looking forward to getting through that wall, but it's not easy.
what is interesting about this technique is that it deliberately puts your whole metabolism in a highly elevated state. like you just ran half a mile or more. in that state, you need a lot more oxygen, so what i do at 42 seconds is actually equal to resting body temperature of about 80 seconds or so. so it's highly accelerated. it recovers your metabolic system and loosens up all the muscles all over your body, sharpens your mind. there's food stuff that is important too but this exercise is really nice and i'm getting used to doing it and i want to do it every night a little while before i sleep. not right away, because it quite wakes you up.
1. run a bath that is hot, just hot enough to be uncomfortable, but not enough to make you get burny feeling in your skin. somewhere around 42'C
2. soak in it. alternate between sitting up (usually the best start) and then lay back and let your torso rise and probably your head will sit against the edge of the bathtub behind you. do this at least 3 times. this ensures your whole body temperature rises, raising your core temperature to about equal to if you did about 5 minutes of vigorous cardio. this is key.
3. next, on all fours, forward, wait for a full inbreath, then you dunk your head under the water, nose pinched, and hold your breath. count seconds, whatever method you like, thousand or mississipi or whatever your taste is. hold it as long as you can, until you feel a strong urge to breathe again. then get your head out, and let your breath settle. repeat this 3 times.
whatever you want in between, wash, if you want to, or not.
4. turn on the shower cold and cool everything down on your skin. not sure what this does exactly but i started doing it on and off back in 2012 after reading jack kruse, he said it helps you develop better body temperature regulation. it's also quite invigorating. at first you don't want to do it, but after you do it a few times you stop caring. it's the procedure.
i can now typically hold my breath somewhere between 30 and 40 seconds, record about 42 seconds.
there's a following phase after you get past somewhere between 45 and 60 seconds where you break through some "wall" that free divers talk about. at this point, when you feel yourself break through, get back up, keep holding, and lie backwards with your head resting against the back of the bathtub. this is important, because once you break the wall, you can hold your breath until you pass out. being in this position, you will just wake up and suck in breath and be conscious again very quickly.
i'm looking forward to getting through that wall, but it's not easy.
what is interesting about this technique is that it deliberately puts your whole metabolism in a highly elevated state. like you just ran half a mile or more. in that state, you need a lot more oxygen, so what i do at 42 seconds is actually equal to resting body temperature of about 80 seconds or so. so it's highly accelerated. it recovers your metabolic system and loosens up all the muscles all over your body, sharpens your mind. there's food stuff that is important too but this exercise is really nice and i'm getting used to doing it and i want to do it every night a little while before i sleep. not right away, because it quite wakes you up.
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