.... So the whole idea is to create an all-round freediver who can compete in all disciplines and can ALWAYS come close to his best performances with a minimum amount of preparation time.
To give an example; if you look at Sanne at a competition he's relaxing and waiting for his official top, just chatting with some other people, enjoying the surroundings. 15-20 minutes before his time he puts on his freediving gear and slowly walks to the performance zone. He arrives 3 minutes before official top at the place to be and presents himself to the judges and sits down on the side of the pool. 2 minutes before he starts his breathing pattern and around 30 seconds before...
Freediving shouldn’t be only a science! Freediving should be a sport! To excel in a sport you have to train, you have to train hard. Your body should learn what it has to do, what’s it capable of and by going to it’s limits it learns to cooperate with these limits and even put the limits some higher. You have to stimulate your body in a correct way, so that during recovery it makes it self stronger for the next time you will train.
With any sport you should rely on some mental preparation. But with freediving people seem to think that they can break their limits on mental preparation alone. Let me tell you that...
.... So the whole idea is to create an all-round freediver who can compete in all disciplines and can ALWAYS come close to his best performances with a minimum amount of preparation time.
Freediving shouldn’t be only a science! Freediving should be a sport! To excel in a sport you have to train, you have to train hard. Your body should learn what it has to do, what’s it capable of and by going to it’s limits it learns to cooperate with these limits and even put the limits some higher. You have to stimulate your body in a correct way, so that during recovery it makes it self stronger for the next time you will train.