Is holding your breath for a minute and thirty seconds considered long?

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
I once held my breath for over two years.

:laugh:

 

[BrownTown]

I hear choking people is a good way to get high, lets all try by hanging ourselves for 3 minutes and see what happens

 

[StrangerGuy]

One and a half minutes is sh!T. Try it for an one hour and tell us again.

 

[ElMonoDelMar]

When I played sousaphone in high school I could hold my breath for 3 min.

 

[ForumMaster]

Originally posted by: jagec
World record for breath-holding is around 9 minutes.

you sure? that seems really high. got a source? i do remember something more along the lines of 5 minutes. 9 seems impossible without fainting. i can do 1:30 easily. more then that and it starts to get hard. i do swim but not in the best of shape. about time i do.

 

[Falloutboy]

when I was a kid we would have competitions with my friends to see who could swim the longest under water. our pool was about 100 ft long and I got to the point of doing 1 "lap (back and forth). not sure how long that took though, I know I would be near passing out when I did it

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
when I was a kid we would have competitions with my friends to see who could swim the longest under water. our pool was about 100 ft long and I got to the point of doing 1 "lap (back and forth). not sure how long that took though, I know I would be near passing out when I did it

Most pools are built 25 yards long or 25 meters long... roughly 75 feet. (or 82 feet)
Pretty good to swim the 50 yards or meters underwater. But, did you have a diving start?

 

[abefastcash]

When I used to be a lifeguard during the summer, and no swimmers were there, i would try and hold me breath and practice, got around 1:45 or so, but i was also in great shape from football at the time

 

[dotcom173]

my current record is 2 mins, with probably a max-out of 2:10. last year, it was 1:30, then it just expanded. and i made sure i wasnt accidentally breathing through my nose, by holding my nose closed, which actually makes me uncomfortable, but i still was able to get 2 minutes, so it didnt hurt much.


EDIT: i used WAY too many commas in that last sentence......i need to start incorporating some of these bad boys: .

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
when I was a kid we would have competitions with my friends to see who could swim the longest under water. our pool was about 100 ft long and I got to the point of doing 1 "lap (back and forth). not sure how long that took though, I know I would be near passing out when I did it

I could do our school olympic sized pool in one go back in year 11, and three widths in one go (the latter was MUCH harder iirc), but my lung capacity is pretty awful atm.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I just tried and could do a minute pretty easily. I think 2 minutes is about the max I've done though.

 

[F1shF4t]

At school in class once i held my breath for 2 min 30 sec... everyone was looking at me, as i was red there pounding on the desk for the last few seconds. i'll be lucky if i can do over 1 min now days

 

[Falloutboy]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
when I was a kid we would have competitions with my friends to see who could swim the longest under water. our pool was about 100 ft long and I got to the point of doing 1 "lap (back and forth). not sure how long that took though, I know I would be near passing out when I did it

Most pools are built 25 yards long or 25 meters long... roughly 75 feet. (or 82 feet)
Pretty good to swim the 50 yards or meters underwater. But, did you have a diving start?

yeah you might be right on the size, and no diving start. I did push off on ether side but thats it.

 

[TraumaRN]

nowadays usually about 3 minutes. Longest I went was nearly 4 minutes when i used to swim and was massively in shape.

It's about control and relax. You have to relax every muscle in your body.....

 

[Sravanbbb]

Is holding your breath for a minute and thirty seconds considered long?

I don't know if I'm strange but I could hold my breath for 3minutes 11sec before completely giving up and when I say holding there's no exhaling or inhaling . I don't freedive, neither am I an athlete.

 

[adamantine.me]

I'd say. I struggle to get more than a minute.

 

[MongGrel]

 

[brianmanahan]

i've been holding my breath since OP made this post

 

[cbrunny]

i've been holding my breath since OP made this post

thats probably the record. at least until david blaine finds out.

 

[Chaotic42]

I know it's a necro, but 30 seconds is my limit.

 

[brianmanahan]

thats probably the record. at least until david blaine finds out.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Never been able to do more than like 20-30 secs. But lot of people can do like several minutes. It's a weird feeling, like it does not hurt or anything, it's just like trying to hold a heavy object high in the air for a long time and you get so tired you can't anymore. That's basically how it feels for me anyway.

 

[IronWing]

I'm holding my breath for four years (or until Trump is out).

I don't recall the time but I used to be able to hold my breath for the length of half length olympic pool.

 

[MrDudeMan]

I lasted 51.2 seconds on my first try. I probably could have held out for another 4-5 seconds, but it was getting really uncomfortable. I tried again after I caught my breath and got to 1:01. All I can think right now is how awful it would be to suffocate.

 

[Sacha Blue]

Is holding your breath for a minute and thirty seconds considered long?

Hello,
When i was young in the 90s i experimented with marijuana. I tried to hold my breath long with smoke but in general it mattered little because pot can get you high even breatjing next to it if it wafts in your face.
I had some buddies who experimented with crack though and they taught themselves to hold their breath over a minute because they said you had to hold it at least 40 sec to get high and the longer they held it in the better the hit was.
We would time ourselves in breath holding tests, with and without our respective smokes. I rarely got past 45 seconds, a few times i made it to a minute. The crack smokers always got over a minute and regularly over 130.
One trick they shared was they always left room so when they felt done they could suck in a tiny bit more air. Obviously that doesnt help an under water thing but similar to storing it in cheeks.
I do not use drugs and reccomend not using drugs. I just found it interesting remembering their culture of breath control.