How to record times during your dynamic sessions I used to think that recording times during training sessions was a very simple and very obvious thing. But boy, was I wrong. Ever since I started coaching people, due to my detail-oriented personality but also because it’s plain simple common sense, I always ask my “clients”…
Comfortable vs Familiar – A ramble I was just recently listening to a podcast; nothing to do with freediving, in fact it was about running, but many concepts resonate with my ideas of training in freediving. This one was about training plans for running, and the conversation touched on to different workout’s training intensity…
Dynamic training and all the stages of despair Not too long ago I wrote a post about staying in the moment, and I constantly speak about it to my students, but I can tell that the concept doesn’t often go through when it is explained in terms that are too abstract for people to grasp…
Preamble: I wrote this quite some time ago and then never posted it, my life unravelled and I had little time and zero energy for anything else than being miserable all day for several months. That is why I stopped distributing my wisdom via this blog and in my Instagram posts; my training did continue…
I have a love-hate relationship with static. 3 years ago when I started training again, I had little access to a proper pool, so coach Bub from hell made me do a truckload of dry statics: co2 tables, max attempts, FRC sets, O2 sets, high HR statics, and all sorts of combinations of the above.…
The importance of having a correct buoyancy is crucial for dynamic. It’s shocking to see how few people get this right; of course I expect beginners and relatively new freedivers to get it wrong, but I see too many competition level freedivers who do max dynamics having the wrong buoyancy. Wrong weighting means that you…
VISUALISATION VS THINKALISATION Every time I talk about visualisation with a student we get trapped into a cycle of misunderstandings. I realised that is because visualisation is totally the wrong word to use for what I’m trying to teach them. The word visualisation involves images above all. But that bears almost no relevance to what…
A couple of days ago I came to the realisation that I have to accept that I am WHERE I AM, which is not necessarily WHERE I SHOULD BE, or WHERE I WOULD LIKE TO BE. In fact I’ve been struggling with training for about 2 months now, due to a combination of factors (some…
I was asked to give a lecture at Deepspot (the deep pool in Poland), about a subject of my choosing and as I was flying there I opened a blank powerpoint file and tried to write down a presentation. I have a deep love for this subject and I taught it several times during my…
Why You Should Keep a Journal (and why you won’t) The most underrated (and invariably ignored) tip (or 3) I give people: 1- keep a training journal, 2- always update it in details and 3- go back to it especially when you feel your performance is plummeting and training feels harder than it should. You…
A few days ago I posted a video of a slow-mo DNF dynamic turn, which prompted some people to ask questions about different turn-styles and which one is the best for bifins, so I posted another video of the same turn done with bifins, just to illustrate its efficiency, since many think that this turn…
Competition strategy for dummies Since I got back into competing 2 years ago I have had the same conversation many times over, so I’m making this little post so I can direct freedivers there next time I get asked! Many freedivers who are not so experienced and are quite new in the competition world, don’t…
Once I told my coach Bub (short of Beelzebub) that he is the Goggings of freediving. Bub took offence, because he doesnt like Goggings, maybe because they have such different styles, but if you go beyond the surface and how they present, they have so much in common. Bub is the kind of person whose…
I’m slowly getting to love pool training (either that or i got brainwashed). I really like dry training and i got into it very quickly when i started training last year. On dry i can push myself to states of suffering so beyond of what i can do in the pool or the sea. But…
A little over 1 year ago I started to do intermittent fasting. I had read a lot of literature about it and my only motivation for starting was for the health benefits and longevity (when you’ll get there you’ll know that a certain age you better start planning on how to slow down the inexorable…