How long can you hold your breath?

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Lifer
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I can hold it for 1 minute and 20 s and I'm not a swimmer/runner/athlete. What about you people?
 

Wallydraigle

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Repost! Sorry:eek: I only said it because I posted a thread on this a couple months ago. I can hold my breath for a little more than two and a half minutes.
 

MeanMeosh

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a minute, but that's the first time i've done it in a while... used to go for like 2 minutes +
 

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I just took a really deep breath and held it and about 20 secs later I got light headed and my vision started turning darker

That was fun :D
 

aphex

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Originally posted by: Kiyup
I'll start as soon as I hit reply, then type finished, and hit reply to topic when I'm done.

You going on 6 minutes now... I call B/S
 

Viper GTS

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When I was little, 2-2.5 minutes. It's been a LONG time since I found that entertaining though.

Viper GTS
 

Zebo

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When we were kids we used to have contests in the swimming pool all the time. 8 minutes. The key is to hyperventilate for about 3 minutes until you are about ready to pass out then go under water.
 

Zebo

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Another cool game is hold you arms out straight shoulder high as long as possible. Then after about 5 miniutes your shoulders feel like they are going to explode be cause of the red hot pain. :) Then after 10 minitues you feel like you're about to die:p
 

GigaCluster

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I held mine for 90 seconds. I could've held it longer -- I wasn't feeling light-headed or anything -- but I reached to feel for my heartbeat and couldn't find it. After 5 seconds of searching for it to no avail, I restarted breathing and then felt it slowly coming back... it was rapid but very weak.
 

Ender

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Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Aren't there people who do this for an hour or so?

Probably. There are people can go into a trance and just make their breathing extremely slow.