This is a post by Jorg Jansen.
It’s already been a pretty good freediving week. On Tuesday I did some more test with my co2 schedule. Were I first started with a 8 times 40 second breath hold with only 1 breath in between, I know tried to do a 8 times 50 second schedule. It was already a lot harder, but I managed to do it and ended the last hold with a time of 1:10 minutes. All in all a good and short session where I really noticed the co2 in my body. My head was hot and ready to explode, so then I know I did a good training.
Today was pool time again and about 1,5 hour before training I decided that I’m going to focus more on FRC diving (neutral lung breath hold). As I managed to do a 18 meter dive last weekend in FRC style I was thinking what my static capability would be while doing it in this way. So I tried my 8 times 40 seconds with one breath recovery schedule with it. It was hard but I managed to complete it and it felt pretty good afterwards.
When Sanne and I arrived at the pool I first started with a FRC static at 5 meters depth. I didn’t watch the time as I only wanted to feel and not push. Afterwards I did a dynamic without fins. Without wetsuit you’re pretty negative in the pool while FRC freediving. I had to compensate a lot, but all in all I managed to do around 35 meters without really pushing and was pretty happy with it.
Next was the monofin. The first thing I noticed while trying for the technique is that without full lungs my body is much more relaxed and I think I managed to translate this to my monofin technique. I could use much more my stomach in the technique then normally and still keep relaxed. After some 25 meter laps with I decided to focus for the coming weeks on a kick-kick-glide technique, arms extended above my head.
After some lanes it was time to see if I could do a little bit more than 25 meters and to my surprise I did a pretty easy 50 meter in FRC mode. I was pretty happy with that I must say. And the good thing was that I didn’t feel anything in my legs with regards to lactic acid or anything. So that’s a good bonus as well. For sure I’m going to continue with this way of diving for the coming time and I’ll see where it will bring me.
Sanne also did a good training session. The static warm-up was not really relaxed but the monofinning after some laps improved big time. From looking like a hard worker to looking relaxed in one session is always great to see! We’ll continue like this in the coming weeks and see where it will get us. Interesting road to walk!
