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Kate Winslet held her breath for over seven minutes while filming the sequel to Avatar, while her co-star, Sigourney Weaver, held hers for an impressive six-and-a-half minutes.
These movie stars are understandably using their impressive dive times to gain media attention for their film, but for the sake of education and safety when it comes to breathing, in this video we’ll take a deeper look at how breath holding works and techniques to practice it safely.
VIDEO CONTENTS
00:00 Kate Winslet’s 7-Minute Breath Hold
00:50 Safety Disclaimer
01:30 How Breath Holding Works
03:58 Breath Holding Techniques
04:17 CO2 Tolerance
06:57 Hypoxia Tolerance
08:12 The Mammalian Dive Reflex
09:53 Relaxation Techniques
10:47 Controlled Hyperventilation
11:36 Packing Technique
12:33 Supplemental Oxygen
13:48 How Did Kate Winslet Do It?
15:37 Key Takeaways
DISCLAIMER – This guide is for educational purposes only. Never practice breath holds in water without a coach or a trainer present. Don’t practice breath holding alone in your bathtub, or put your head in a bucket of water, and never practice alone in a pool. Shallow water blackouts are a serious and life-threatening risk.
HOW BREATH HOLDS WORK
A natural breath contains just 200-300 ml of air, and nearly three quarters of the available oxygen is exhaled back out, meaning there is more oxygen per breath than you need. Without impacting blood oxygen at all, most people can hold their breath for 1-2 minutes.
If you have plenty of oxygen in your lungs and blood after just one minute, why is breath holding so difficult and uncomfortable? The urge to breathe doesn’t come from a lack of oxygen, it comes from a build-up of carbon dioxide. So, you can feel the urge to breathe long before you really need to.
Novice breathwork students will have a very low CO2 tolerance, meaning you’ll feel the urge to breathe after just twenty or thirty seconds. With practice, you can quickly learn to tolerate these elevated CO2 levels and extend your holds.
TECHNIQUES WE’LL DISCUSS
* Increasing CO2 tolerance
* Improving hypoxia tolerance
* The mammalian dive reflex
* Relaxation methods to reduce CO2 build-up
* Controlled hyperventilation
* Packing
* Supplemental oxygen / nitrox mixes
BEST PRACTICES
Fans inspired by these actors’ breath holds are submerging in bathtubs and testing their own skills—DON’T DO THIS! It’s extremely dangerous to practice in water alone, and deaths are not uncommon. If you’re interested in breath holding, start by practicing in bed, lying down. If you want to try water training, free diving with a proper instructor is very safe and very cautious – so seek out an expert for help.
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