holding your breath

[kurosh]

Would holding your breath for long periods of time have any health benefits?? What about shallow breathing for long periods of time?

[0evg0]

shallow breathing would build up your lung mussels like doing high freq/low weight arm curls

[youtalkfunny]

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lung mussels

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Organs have "mussels"?

[bisonbison]

Clam up, man. Don't be shellfish.

[gilbert]

i used to hold my breath for long amounts of time at camp when i was a kid to get kind of a high.

it was pretty sweet.

[mbillie1]

Are you "kurosh2" on FTP by any chance?

[cbloom]

Exercising your lungs only has benefit if you do it to failure, just like weight lifting. I recommend doing 3 sets of 5 deep breaths. First warm up with some mild deep breathing. When you do your real sets, your goal on each rep is to hold it until you literally can't any more - you have to go way past discomfort, hold it as long as possible. If you want to really push it you should try to hold it until you pass out - don't worry, once you pass out you'll start breathing totally normally again, it's perfectly safe. Don't listen to people who advocate normal cardio - any serious fitness expert knows that working your lungs without going to failure has little to no benefit.

[dogsballs]

Go here... Deeper Blue is like the 2+2 of freediving. Lots of stuff there for ya.

[effang]

I really don't think there are any positive benefits. Depriving your body of oxygen has immediate effects, like making you stoopid. Your brain needs oxygen all the time, and anytime it is deprived that, you are losing brain cells. given that, i'm sure people can afford to lose some?