- High altitude training
can have massive benefits
for surfers because high
altitude has such low oxygen
it forces your body to
produce more red blood cells,
which increases your body's
oxygen-carrying capacity.
Fortunately you don't have
to climb any mountains
to get these benefits, all you gotta do
is simulate that low-oxygen environment
to get all the same benefit.
Super simple to do, all you need is
this little bit of information.
All you wanna do is get out to a place
where you can go for a
walk and hold your breath.
Just couple of key things to do.
Start by walking for about
30 seconds at a normal pace
and then you wanna hold
your breath on an exhale.
So exhale out gently, not forcefully,
but you wanna empty your
lungs almost completely.
And when you hold your breath,
you wanna plug your nose.
This is important, I'll
explain why in a minute.
When you hold your breath
you just keep walking
with your breath held until you feel
medium to strong urge to breathe.
When you get this urge to breathe,
you may start to get
spasms in your abdomen,
and this can force you, unwillingly,
to breathe in through your nose.
That's why you wanna plug your nose.
So after you get that
strong urge to breathe,
you wanna begin to inhale again.
However, you don't wanna
take full, deep inhales.
You wanna take shallow, short ones.
Stay hungry for oxygen for
about 15 breaths in and out
so that you're still
remaining hungry for oxygen.
After 15 inhales of the
shallow, short breaths
then go ahead and breathe normally
and then start walking
again until you recover
for about 30 seconds.
Then hold your breath again on the exhale,
breathe out, plug your nose
and then hold your breath
for as many paces as you can.
Now you wanna repeat this 8 to 10 times.
It should take you about maybe
somewhere between 12 and 15 minutes.
And when you first start,
you may only be able
to walk 20 paces with your breath held,
but then after that you
could easily get up to 100.
The main benefits of this is
having a higher oxygen-carrying capacity,
increased endurance,
decrease recovery time.
It can have massive implications
on the amount of waves
that you're catching.
What it really does is it forces your body
to do more with less.
And that's so relatable to surfing
where you're constantly
forced to hold your breath.
Another benefit to having
a high red blood cell count
is that it has a decreased build up
of lactic acid in your muscles.
So your muscles won't burn as quickly
or as bad when you're paddling out.
This has massive implications
with your paddle strength.
I heard one definition of what separates
athletes from non-athletes,
and that's the ability to
tolerate low oxygen or high CO2.
So doing this has massive,
massive cross over
into all the needs of a surfer.
All that low oxygen, being
forced to hold your breath,
constantly duck-diving,
constantly wiping out
and then still having
performed an endurance sport.
So doing this is one of the quickest ways
to improve your surfing.
The best part about it, it
doesn't stress your body.
You can do it when you have an injury
or you don't need any kind of
special talents or abilities,
just this tiny little bit of knowledge
can have massive, massive benefits.
Endurance, recovery time, and then
lack of lactic acid in your muscles.
Huge, huge, huge benefits across the board
for surfing and catching more waves.
So this is simulated
high altitude training
for massive benefits for surfers
who wanna catch more waves
and reach their potential.
Hope you love it.
