At the end of last week, I was almost unable to properly finish my specific freediving session. But as my body seems to adapt to the circumstances quite fast, I could do this weeks freediving sessions without any signs of decline.

So starting the week with a static session, after that going to the gym and stepping up the cycle for 20 minutes of cardio, I was ready to do a freediving specific session on Tuesday. The training consists of 2 dynamic without fins runs, followed by a combination specific freediving training spread over 1300 meters in the pool. I have to say that it’s an intense training, but afterwards I’m satisfied with a good training session.

Middle part of the week I decided to focus more on the dry-walks, which are important in my specific training on Tuesday and Friday. Getting my mind back on track and doing a solid 2 minute drywalk is intense, but pays off in the end. There is always the part where my mind thinks I should bail out, but breaching that thought is what it’s all about. After the drywalk I headed for the gym to train my legs, I postponed the cardio to Saturday as there’s no use for cardio after a legs work-out.

It’s Thursday and the thought of doing a dry-walk while my legs are still burning and aching from the day before is rushing through my mind during my work. “So let’s get it over with!” I thought when returning home… Starting off normal, but my legs started to wear down very fast in the end, so a 1:45 drywalk was satisfying. Normally I would do my fitness work-out on Thursday as well, but it seems more wise to postpone that to Saturday as well, making the Saturdays work-out more balanced and I could focus optimal for Friday.

Yet another freediving specific training was due on Friday and starting with the 2 DNF runs was the first part I had to accomplish. Both runs were confident and it didn’t feel all to difficult during the runs. But then the 1300 meter specific training was still to come… In the first part of the 1300m my legs felt like porridge, luckily I regained strength and worked my way through the training.

Today I visited the gym again for my postponed exercises, both my cardio- and shoulder-training. I could still feel the specific 1300m from Friday, but the best is to finish my shoulder-training in a solid and controlled way where technique counts.

Somewhere in the middle or at the end of week 4 I’ll update again !

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