Why Why Why?? When minutes are so precious, why take time to practice a meaningless activity in a sport I don’t even play? Because it’s not meaningless, it’s an opportunity to keep moving, stay agile, feel young, be healthy, and conquer challenging tasks. This 50-by-50 goal was a tough…

I woke intensely nervous. I was lacking confidence, and self-doubt was setting in. I ferried the kids off to school and hastily returned home. Capitalising on my deliberately empty stomach (it saves O2), I rushed to tackle this obstacle head-on. The obstacle is the way. In the stillness of the…

I read a bunch of information online and decided to put my trust in this four-week process by Ian Donald (an AIDA master freediving instructor and author). I followed Ian’s c02 and O2 tables pretty much to a tee except I did all my breath holds on land as I…

I have been enjoying my Wim Hof (WHM) breathing sessions for the past 18 months, they seem to give me increased energy and alertness. There is a feeling of stress reduction, there is something about the controlled hyperventilation that activates the parasympathetic nervous system. The holds can give you a…