How Long Can You Hold Your BREATH?

[breathholdchamp]

[quote=Tytus Gerrish]Um... Huh? .... ER

UH-OH

JK,
wow man how can you hold your breath so long? do you have contests?

[Elgin Clock]

For all those people who can hold their breath underwater for more than two minutes or so, I give you all some credit.

Holding your breath underwater is harder because the pressure of the water surrounding you is greater than air pressure and that's why most people can hold their breath underwater for less time.

Anyways, now that I'm done acting all Mr. Wizard like, my time (not in water) is:
40 seconds with no practice.

I'll try to get that number up by the end of the weekend and post my new and improved time here then..

[Alex Pelan]

57 seconds...

[Yan Wang]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

For all those people who can hold their breath underwater for more than two minutes or so, I give you all some credit.

Holding your breath underwater is harder because the pressure of the water surrounding you is greater than air pressure and that's why most people can hold their breath underwater for less time.

Anyways, now that I'm done acting all Mr. Wizard like, my time (not in water) is:
40 seconds with no practice.

I'll try to get that number up by the end of the weekend and post my new and improved time here then..

I can hold it for > 2 min underwater and it doesn't feel any different than on land. I don't understand what the correlation between increased pressure and holding-ur-breath-time is. It's not like there is enough pressure to force that air out of your lungs and back into the atmosphere...

And wow, this thread was brought back after a long time. Is it because people are swimming more now that it's summer?

[Mike Ciance]

isn't it amazing that we are all so facinated with how long we can manage to deprive our bodies of oxygen before giving in to the impulses that over millions of years have evolved specifically to prevent us from doing such a thing?

[breathholdchamp]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

hrmm as for First question I've held my breath for 3:05 thats my personal record

( no joking.. I've been timed )

I just have big lungs

As for hissing sound I have no clue I have to do it for
Dan

HI DAN HOW LONG CAN YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH NOW?

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by shyra1353

wow...you guys can hold it for a long time. i can only hold mine for 27 seconds

I have heard that a majority of asians by default have narrower lungs/veins/whatever... A doctor told me when my dad had a heart attack.. anyways, I can hold my breath for about 40 seconds...

[Lisa Perez]

1:10.

Forgive my ignorance (I'm a flutist, I should know this), but how does one do circular breathing?

[breathholdchamp]

i am pracicing for diving. I can hold my breath for about 3 minutes normally and my all time record is 5 minutes 6 sec wow that was long. i like contests too. feel free to email ir im me at breathholdchamp@aol.com thanks

[Scooter]

My record is 6:24. I have been free diving for several years, that has always been fun.

-Bill

[breathholdchamp]

Originally Posted by Scooter

My record is 6:24. I have been free diving for several years, that has always been fun.

-Bill

WOWOWOWWO BILL !! HOW CAN YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH SO LONG? DO YOU HAVE CONTESTS?

[Elyse Holguin]

w00t. much hyperventilation, but 132 seconds.

terrific. now i'm dizzy.[/wheezing]

yeah, i was first chair clarinet in band for a while, and i was in girl's show choir, not to mention all the years of swimming i did, and still do in my pool. i was once able to go 50 yards without breathing (sprints), but that was back when i was in shape. so for now, i'll take my 132 minutes and be quite proud of myself.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

I used to play the trumpet back in middle school, and i remember doing the circular breathing. I can't do it naymore though, I haven't played a trumpet in 7 years or so.

[JoeXIII'007]

I start holding my breath =
One minute later =
after that =
realizing that I must release =
After the whole challenge =

I can hold it for about 70 seconds.

[Greg Ross]

To bring this dead thread back... one more time... (Sorry. I didn't see it during either of its first two lives.)

With a little hyperventilational prepping, 2 minutes even. (If I hadn't been watching a clock, it would have been less, I'm sure.)

Originally Posted by Amber H.

How long can you make a sustained hissing sound on just one breath?

54 seconds.

Another one is: How long can you hold a piece of paper on a wall using only your breath blowing on it?

About 4 seconds. (Every time I tried to time it by looking at my watch before starting, I couldn't even get the paper to stay. I had to resort to just blowing, and then after I was done blowing, count for the approximate length of time I had blown.)