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I have ~always been able to hold my breath for multiple minutes. I am very un-fit and have been for most of my adult life. Am I secretly the paragon of health?
by greggyb 4y ago
I have ~always been able to hold my breath for multiple minutes. I am very un-fit and have been for most of my adult life.
Am I secretly the paragon of health?
- 762236 4y agoFor a CO2 tolerance test, you continuously exhale (a tiny trickle) to ensure no accidental inhale. See if that makes it harder for you.
- greggyb 4y agoWhen I was singing, I could hiss for 90 seconds without specific practice. For definitional purposes, a hiss was an unbroken, continuous, audible, 'sss' sound. This was an exercise our chorus director sometimes did with us. I get bored more than anything else. Just did 70 seconds with one deep breath of prep. I have not sung in years.
- jcims 4y agoSame. When I was a kid I would regularly go for over two minutes... I could get to three every now and then but barely. Haven't tried timing how long I can hold my breath in probably a decade. Unfortunately the site doesn't keep going so I tried with my phone, started squirming at 2:45 and made it to 3 minutes.
- af3d 4y agoNice! I was literally struggling just to hold it for 40 seconds. Of course, long ago I could easily hold my breath for 3 or 4 minutes. (A cousin of mine was able to do it for over six minutes or so. He could also dive to much greater depths than anyone else.)