Freediving, Thursday April 21, 2005

Went out with Gary at 3pm out of the 15th street boat ramp. We cruised over the shelfs just off of sloppy joe's but the vis looked terrible. We decided to hit the second reef balls. There was a snorkel boat anchored and a dive boat moored to the balls when we got there so we tied off. Visibility was a good 30 feet, but somewhat murky. Spence and I hopped in immediately while gary collected his gear.

Upon entering the water we came across a school of grunt with some yellowtail snapper and a trumpet fish mixed in. We swam around for a half hour until spence was ready for a break.

He handed me my weight belt and I did a series of about 5 dives to 30 feet. Today I was working on looking back instead of down, focusing on good technique for the dive.

After doing those dives spence was warmed up so we got back in and swam around some more. After another 20 minutes or so he was cold again. I went back to working on my dives and exploring the reef. After another 30 minutes or so of diving the waves were picking up and we were all ready to head in.

Swim, Thursday April 21, 2005

Frontcrawl - 2o laps - aprx 400m 15 minutes
Breaststroke - 15 laps - aprx 300m 12 minutes
Fins on - 15 laps - aprx 300m 12 minutes

total 1km in 39 minutes

CO2 Training Tables, Tuesday April 19, 2005

Apnoe Trainer settings
Intro 120 sec
Breath hold (max) - 75 sec
Increase hold by - 0 sec
initial rest time - 120 sec
Decrease rest time by - 10 sec
Loops 8

This was no problem will increase the max hold to 90 seconds on next go round.

Swimming, Tuesday April 19, 2005

frontcrawl 20 laps - aprx 400m - 15 minutes
breaststroke 15 laps - aprx 300m - 10 minutes
Freediving Fins 12 laps - aprx 240 m - 8 minutes

Totals 940m in 33 minutes.

o2 Tables, Monday April 18 2005

Apnoe trainer settings
Intro 180
Breath hold max 180
Increase hold time by 15
Initial rest time 120
decrease rest time 0

1:15 - No Problem (np)
1:30 - np
1:45 - np
2:00 - np
2:15 - np
2:30 - np
2:45 - 5 or 6 contractions
3:00 - Session Interupted will redo this table later this week.

Swim

20 laps front crawl - aprx 400m - 15 minutes
10 laps breaststroke - aprox 200m - 8 minutes
10 laps with fins - aprox 200m - 7 minutes

Decided to add breast stroke in case i do some no fins training. Bailed on last 10 laps with fins due to sore ankle.

Training Plan Week of April 18 2005

Monday
- Swim 25 laps front crawl 25 laps with fins
- O2 Tables

Tuesday
- Swim 25 laps front crawl 25 laps with fins
- CO2 Tables
- Apnea swimming in PM if Lydija is home to supervise

Wednessday
- Swim 25 laps front crawl 25 laps with fins
- Apnea walking

Thursday
- Swim 25 laps front crawl 25 laps with fins
- 02 Tables
- Supervised apnea pool practice

Friday
- Swim 25 laps front crawl 25 laps with fins
- C02 Tables

Saturday
- performance freediving open water clinic

Sunday
- performance freediving open water clinic