Comments on: Searching For Dry Static Schedule

By: Jorg Jansen

Jorg Jansen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:38:59 +0000

Thanks for all the replies. I did some more small tests to see what is usefull for me. I report back next week after I tried your tips…

By: guy

guy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:01:41 +0000

hi jorg

I do this one occasionally. I like it because it takes exactly 10 minutes.

1:30 hold
1:00 recovery
1:30 hold
0:45 recovery
1:30 hold
0:30 recovery
1:30 hold
0:15 recovery
1:30 hold
and finish. Sometimes I turn the last hold into a max attempt, but I never go more than 2 min.

ciao. btw I finish my studies after wednesday next week. Lets go to the lake! Wanna dive the 30m rope again.

By: Ericvrp

Ericvrp — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:50:23 +0000

Hi Jorg,

For a CO2 table I think 8*40 seconds is too short. Especially considering you only take a few contractions per hold at the moment. My tables are all about 30 minutes because that is the most I want to spend on them at a time. It used to be hard for me to focus after 20 minutes but that seems to have become easier over time.

I understand this might be called hardcore but what does that really mean? It’s just training you can change the parameters to whatever you like.

If I may suggest a dry static training to start with

3*0:35
3*0:40
3*0:45
3*0:50
3*0:45
3*0:40
3*0:35
=3*280 seconds=840 seconds=14 minutes

This is short enough to do most of the days (before lunch?) and has parameters enough to keep you experimenting and interested for some time.

Perhaps trux’s program can give nice beeps so you don’t have to keep looking at a paper with the total times.

By: Eri

Eri — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:16:17 +0000

Here is what i have been taught:
usually the rule of thumb when u don’t know your CO2 tolerance level, is to start with half of your static level ie if you have a 3 min static the 1:30 this will either be just right yea or if not you will see if you need to go down or up.

By: trux

trux — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:29:28 +0000

Well, there are plenty of hypercapnic exercises in the Apnea Training Manager at http://apnea.cz/training.html, and you can even train them interactively in front of your PC. If you enter your STA PB in your profile at APNEA.cz, it will even suggest you adequate apnea and recovery times (that you can adjust, of course). Series of breath-holds with only a single exhale/inhale in between is pretty intensive and hardcore.

PS: I do not think the current image here is of a CO2 molecule – that’s much simpler than that – see for example the image in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
I’d tell that the moclecule on the image here is something much more complex – most likely some organic molecule. I see it incorrectly used on the web more often than just here. Probably because it is more “photogenic” than the correct but simple 3-atom model.