Our global training-philosophy includes that our training is not wide stretched in time, but it has more resemblance of a “Packed 30″-approach. What does this mean in terms of training? Well 30 minutes of high intensity training, wearing down your mental endurance to a point you’ll have to yield. This kind of training is only done with a safety in the water.

I’ve been doing this kind of training for a few weeks now, but in general we’ve always had significantly shorter training sessions then other approaches. On a level of focusing for training, my focus can be very dedicated. I prepare myself during the day, knowing what I should do during the Packed 30’s later that evening. Preparing in a way that it is something I think about during the day. No surprises, increased focus, set exercises and it will break me down mentally.

The yield point is a way of testing my endurance, it varies per day of training, but should on average be on a constant increasing rate. The yield-point can be a constant value, but the effort to reach the point should be increasing.

I think this approach may raise a few questions like:

• Why would you want to train that kind of mental endurance?
• Is there a relationship between O2- & CO2-schedules in combination to these packed 30’s ?
• Can you use this approach over an existing training, which results in a packed 30-variant of the exercise?
• Is this for approach usable for any freediver?

Jorg will try and answer this in his view on Packed 30’s later this week.

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