How long can you hold your BREATH for ?

[Questions]

The World Record is 22 minutes 22 seconds UNDER WATER!!

So, go and stick your face in the company bog and report back.

Doesn't count if you die. We need rules here.

 

[BearwoodSeagull]

Best thread of the year this one......great question Easy !

I haven't tried today yet, but after a few goes on Holiday in a swimming pool in California a few years ago got to 1min41secs.
I was still in my 40's at the time. I have never smoked, don't have children and my inside leg measurement is 34inches.

 

[Notters]

It's much easier if you hyperventelate first, can do over 2 minutes easily. Always hold my breath through the Dartford tunnel on the way to away matches (we lose otherwise).

 

[happypig]

Weird thing about breath holding: when diving, the pressure increases with depth and at 10 metres the pressure is doubled. When learning you do an "emergency ascent" from about that depth. You have to take out your regulator and exhale all the way up to prevent your lungs bursting. When I did it, the instructor said to blow out like blowing into a straw so the air comes out gradually. I blew out all the way up, for about 15 seconds but when I got to the surface, I still had virtually full lungs. That feels very weird.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I watched a prog about those static line divers when I was about 17. They showed how they prep for holding their breath. Some can hold theirs for ages. Anyway, they spend about ten mins breathing deeply and staying very calm and still to flood the blood cells with oxygen and then take a last, quite shallow breath and off they go. I tried it and held my breath for only about 2 mins 30. I doubt I could even do that nowadays.

2 mins 30 is excellent.

David Blaine had the world record for a while at 17 and a half minutes, before being beaten by the 22 minutes record. Thats oxygen-assisted though, breathing pure oxygen for 30 minutes beforehand. Normal breath-holding record is 11 and a half minutes.

 

[dougdeep]

Always hold my breath through the Dartford tunnel on the way to away matches (we lose otherwise).

Even if we're playing Yeovil?

 

[OzMike]

Here you go you unbeliever!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-holding-breath-underwater-22-22-minutes.html

I stand corrected.
I'll bet his Mrs loves him! nudge nudge, wink wink.

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

Doesn't count if you die. We need rules here.

I think holding your breath underwater and dying is called drowning.

1.32 with lots of pfsts at the end.

 

[wardy wonder land]

It's much easier if you hyperventelate first, can do over 2 minutes easily. Always hold my breath through the Dartford tunnel on the way to away matches (we lose otherwise).

Dartford tunnel on the way to work this morning

East Bore

ave speed 47 mph

1min 14sec

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Tend to steer clear of these things beacuse of my health condition but stopped when started to feel it at 1.36. Quite pleased with that.

 

[Prettyboyshaw]

1.54 first up not bad but feel a bit

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Easy, what HAVE you done. I've now been PREPARING my lungs for the last 10 miniutes in an attempt to BOSH OUT another record time. The woman opposite me thought I was having a panic attack.

 

[Bad Ash]

Trying to be subtle to not alarm by colleagues and/or make them think I'm a bit odd. Managed 1:30.

 

[Questions]

65 seconds but I'm an old bloke with COPD.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Thought about giving it a go then realised I actually like breathing! As you get older, you become more of a shepherd rather than blindly joining the sheeple

 

[tip top]

1m 16s is my best whilst going down on the missus

 

[Stoo82]

I was thinking, will there ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a shark?

Don't know why, but when I read that I thought of Blackadder when Nursie says: 'A boy without a winkle? God be praised it's a miracle: a boy without a winkle!' And then, Sir Thomas Moore pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. And everyone was really disappointed.."

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Knocked out a 2min 28 whilst at the printer. First time I tried it standing up. Felt a little more painful at the end.

The key is to clear your lungs of all the CO2 you can prior to it. Thats what the burning feeling is.

 

[Box of Frogs]

Knocked out a 2min 28 whilst at the printer. First time I tried it standing up. Felt a little more painful at the end.

The key is to clear your lungs of all the CO2 you can prior to it. Thats what the burning feeling is.

I remember the first time I tried something standing up it was a little painful at the end. It wasn't breathing though.

 

[backson]

1m 16s is my best whilst going down on the missus

That's plenty, don't need to spoil her