The 5 Minute Freediver - Freediving Course
How to hold your breath for 5 minutes in 28 days
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Join the thousands of students who have followed our proven, step by step training schedule to safely achieve a 5 minute breath-hold in just 28 days training
Ever dreamt of being able to hold your breath for 5 minutes?
Holding your breath for anything near 5 minutes used to be limited to professional freedivers and could take years to achieve. Thanks to this freediving course you could achieve this in just 28 days!
This course provides you with all the knowledge and tools you need to safely progress to a 5 minute breath hold as well as a complete day by day training schedule for you to follow at your own pace.
Disclaimer: Everyone is different and results may differ from person to person
"Absolutely fantastic... I used this course to great success to increase my bottom time"
Turbo, NoobSpearo Podcast
Listen to the full interview below or on the NoobSpearo website.
Great course! Very complete and detailed. Easy progression and step by step guide to consistently improve.
Jorge L Garcia
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I have been freedive-spearfishing most of my life. I moved to Northern California and vermillion rockfish require deeper diving. I was looking for a way to safely extend my bottom time (without hyperventilating) below 50’. A friend recommended this program and I am glad they did. It is a practical, easy to follow system that has provided great results for me. Highly recommended.
Matthew Bond
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Safe, easy to follow and it 100% works. If you follow the steps and you can discipline yourself it can catapult your capabilities forward months or years!
Ryan Greenall
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Your Instructor
Hey! My name is Pete and I'm the founder and instructor at HowToFreedive.com. My passion for the ocean world started with scuba diving in the cold waters off the coast of England when I was 13. I soon discovered the beauty of Freediving and in 2014 I reached a personal best breath hold time of 6:42 using this exact training programme.
I believe Freediving is a simple sport that should be accessible to everyone. So I founded HowToFreedive.com to demystify the sport, simplify the learning process and make Freediving accessible for anyone to learn.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Hey everyone, over this course I'll be teaching you how to get to the superhuman figure of a 5 minute breath hold.
But is it superhuman? I definitely used to think so. I used to look at anyone with more than a 3.5 minute breath hold as having some sort of special abilities that gives them this power.
But the truth is, you don’t have to be superhuman or have any special abilities to achieve this. Anyone, including you, can get to a 5 minute breath hold. You just need to know what to do, how to do it and when to do it. And it doesn't take years of training, it can take just 28 days.
I'm not going to pretend this is easy, it takes some hard work. But in my experience people don't mind putting in hard work to achieve their goals and I'm sure you're the same. The challenge comes in knowing where to focus that hard work to achieve the goal in the most efficient way. This was exactly my problem when I started out.
I wanted to get to a 5 minute breath hold. I had some idea of what to do, I had read every Freediving book there was, I went on every course there was and I got tips off anyone that seemed credible, but no one gave me what I was looking for. Sure I got plenty of advice, but most involved years of hard training.
I don’t have a problem with hard training, but I would call myself a recreational freediver, using Freediving to experience the beauty of the oceans. Sadly, this is just a handful of times a year, not week in week out. So I wanted something a bit more fast track, a bit more intensive, something that I could turn to when I needed it.
I needed clear guided instructions of what to do, how to do it and when to do it. What was safe to do and what really wasn't safe? So i decided to take what I knew and experiment. After many iterations and a year of tweaks this training programme was finally born.
Now it's the only training programme I'll ever use. I can even take a year off from Freediving and come back to it before a holiday, and after 4 weeks I'm back up to my personal best times.
And I've by no means got any special abilities. As I said, anyone can get to a 5 minute breath hold and I know you can too!
If you have any questions about the course please contact me at pete[at]howtofreedive.com