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Montoyas7940 said:I would love to see a poll on this. How long can you hold your breath?
No smart-alecky answers please!
NOTE: This can include the time for one exhalation.
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Montoyas7940 said:I would love to see a poll on this. How long can you hold your breath?
Help!
As I was indicating earlier, this is not to be taken as a stupid game, and is seriously dangerous.I am about 40 seconds. You guys are crazy with your 2 minutes! A girl once passed out in my brothers year holding her breathe, and that thought has always freaked me out, especially under water!
No, I'm trying to save mattmns.Did you try and hold it for too long? Deep breaths, deep breaths.
OK, when I sumbit this post I will start holding my breath, then I will edit the post to reflect the time... if you don't see my edit please call for help!
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As I was indicating earlier, this is not to be taken as a stupid game, and is seriously dangerous.
Before holding your breath you need to concentrate, saturate your body in oxygen by deep intense breathing for several minutes. And most important of all : be reasonable and do not attempt to go anywhere beyond your capacity.
One should actually not attempt such things without taking a medical exam.
I have to admit that I see little purpose in holding your breath for a prolonged period of time if you can't do anything else but hold your breath. It's probably more important to know how long you can function without air. How many tries you can make at rolling your kayak right side up before you'd better seriously consider bailing out; how long you can look for your lost contact lens on the bottom of a swimming pool; how long you have to unsnap your seatbelt and get out of your car after driving into a lake; how long you have to saw your feet off with a pocket knife after organized crime associates have tossed you into the river with a cement block; things like that.
...how long you have to saw your feet off with a pocket knife after organized crime associates have tossed you into the river with a cement block...
I see now that I have asked a slightly different question in the OP and in the poll.![]()
What if Predator was hunting you and the only way to avoid detection was to remain perfectly still underwater? You have to think realistically, here.
I was going to say...
"No smart-alecky answers," yet we have choices that go up to 30 minutes?
Those synchronized swimmers can hold their breaths for 4 minutes or so. The record is about five. I'm a life-long swimmer, and I can only get to two and a bit.
I chose the number of poll options I wanted (10) before I'd decided on the numbers I was going to put in them. Besides, the thread on Blaine talks about the previous record being about 16 minutes. 30 minutes is not even a factor of 2 above the record!I was going to say...
"No smart-alecky answers," yet we have choices that go up to 30 minutes?
Help!
Help me teach people to read all the posts in the thread before replying! :tongue2:Sure. Help with what?
Help me teach people to read all the posts in the thread before replying! :tongue2:
No, I'm trying to save mattmns.
Blaine and other brain-damaged people don't count.the thread on Blaine talks about the previous record being about 16 minutes.
Could it be that people who are good at holding their breath were more likely to vote in the poll, while those who were not so good, were more likely to skip voting? I thought I'm elite when I can hold 2-3mins, but now I seem to be average only!![]()