5 Ways to Prepare for your Intermediate Freediving Course
By Kristina Zvaritch
The time has come! You’re a certified Lap/Wave 1 freediver (or equivalent from another agency) and ready to continue your freediving journey to become a Lap/Wave 2 student. You want to increase your chances of success and make sure you can absorb all of the new information, but you aren’t sure how to do it. Doing training sessions between courses with an instructor definitely helps - but not everyone has access to an instructor, a training buddy, or even open water. So how can you prepare for the Lap/Wave 2 course on your own?
Before your Lap/Wave 2 freediving course, there are five specific things you can work on to prepare yourself and improve your likelihood of success. You can work on breathing techniques (3-section breathing control, visualization, and lung exercises), CO₂ tolerance, mobility, equalization, and dry exercises for technique. Luckily, Canadian National Record Holder and Molchanovs W4IT Matthieu Duvault covers all of these topics in his Base Training + program: Intermediate Freediving Preparation.
The time has come! You’re a certified Lap/Wave 1 freediver (or equivalent from another agency) and ready to continue your freediving journey to become a Lap/Wave 2 student. You want to increase your chances of success and make sure you can absorb all of the new information, but you aren’t sure how to do it. Doing training sessions between courses with an instructor definitely helps - but not everyone has access to an instructor, a training buddy, or even open water. So how can you prepare for the Lap/Wave 2 course on your own?
Before your Lap/Wave 2 freediving course, there are five specific things you can work on to prepare yourself and improve your likelihood of success. You can work on breathing techniques (3-section breathing control, visualization, and lung exercises), CO₂ tolerance, mobility, equalization, and dry exercises for technique. Luckily, Canadian National Record Holder and Molchanovs W4IT Matthieu Duvault covers all of these topics in his Base Training + program: Intermediate Freediving Preparation.
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