Welcome to the third episode of the Freediving Podcast by Renee Blundon. This episode is part one of five about the mental training and techniques that the world’s top freedivers use to get their minds in the best possible condition for optimal performance and relaxation.
Hey, good evening! Here is your Friday 5 roundup of this week’s facts, fun and f’ups… 🤖 Having a purpose behind your goals is important, even robots think so! A robot wrote this entire article to convince us that robots come in peace. Here’s an […]
Today’s training was great, diving with Yolande and Anna at Lighthouse 🙂 My goal today was to improve dive time. So I did (4) -30 meter dives FIM, going as slow as humanly possible. (I didn’t do any warm-up dives, just got right to it!)
Awesome challenges today training in the Blue Hole with Fran and Rafael. I felt super ready for my -65 meter FIM dive after a proper stretching sesh last night (10 empty lung + reverse packs laying face down with chest on mini yoga ball, plus chest / lung stretching with the bridge doing very slow pursed lip breathing, 5+ full breaths to the belly, 5+ to the ribs, 5+ to the chest, 5+ complete breaths).
Hey, good evening! Here is your Friday 5 roundup of this week’s freediving facts, fun and f’ups… 💕 The ‘tend and befriend’ stress response… In Give in Take by Adam Grant, I read about a new stress response that differs from flight or flight. It was […]
Hey, good afternoon! Here is my Friday 5 roundup of this week’s facts, fun and f’ups… Sorry it’s a day late, there was an internet outage yesterday in Dahab so I couldn’t send! 🌊 In the brain: nature scenes vs. urban […]
Welcome to the third episode of the Freediving Podcast by Renee Blundon. This episode is part one of five about the mental training and techniques that the world’s top freedivers use to get their minds in the best possible condition for optimal performance and relaxation.
Hey, good morning! Here is my Friday 5 roundup of this week’s facts, fun and f’ups… 😍 Is freediving one of the most addicting sports in the world?! Nicolas Wallace writes in Blue Mind about how surfing is the most addictive sport in the world! […]
Hey, good morning! Here is my Friday 5 roundup of this week’s facts, fun and f’ups… 💭 Is freediving ‘teaching you how to think’? After listening to the This Is Water speech by David Foster, it got me thinking about how we […]
Hey, good evening! Here is your Friday 5 roundup of this week’s freediving facts, fun and f’ups… 🍩 What I never realized about willpower until now? I knew that willpower has a limited battery life. It basically starts in the […]
Hey, good morning! Here is your Friday 5 roundup of this week’s freediving facts, fun and f’ups… 😅 What are the 4 problems with max attempt trainings? Many freedivers I know do 1 (or more!) max attempt dives almost every training session! […]
Welcome to the second episode of the Freediving Podcast by Renee Blundon. This episode is part two about nutrition to improve your lung health and lung function for freediving while at the same time, improving your immune system to make it more resilient to COVID-19 and other viruses and bacteria.
Welcome to the first episode of the Freediving Podcast by Renee Blundon. In this episode, I’ll talk about nutrition specifically for freediving and improving your lung function and lung capacity, in order to make your lungs stronger, healthier and more flexible for freediving while at the same time, improving your immune system, making it more resilient to COVID-19 and other viruses and bacteria.
In Episode Zero of the Freediving Podcast, I introduce the purpose of the podcast and how I hope to structure future episodes to provide weekly information about freediving training concepts, nutrition for freediving, fitness for freediving, mental training techniques, freediving preparation, breathing and breath-hold techniques and helpful advice for freediving in a safe, sustainable and healthy way.
I received a visit from this little ray of light today whilst watering my garden 🙂 After photographing him like a mad woman, and without a macro lens (!), I did a bit of Googling to try and ID him […]
I love sitting at the bottom of the sea, experiencing the ocean’s depth through all my senses, without thinking… just being… This was tough for me at first, because I was always looking for stuff outside myself to do (have […]
We have hundreds of grams of calcium stored in the bones, you don’t want to have to be pulling the calcium out of the bones in order to maintain the serum levels of calcium, you want to be getting calcium […]
On the carnivore diet (or keto diet) it’s reasonable to be eating 10-15 grams of sodium chloride a day to get enough salt! Otherwise, the body will push the cortisol way up, because the body is trying to keep the […]
