When you hold your breath to the maximum your body will allow, be it underwater or just in air, you can gain a few seconds extra by slowly releasing your breath. It will feel better and your body won’t react like it is suffocating while you are doing it. Why does this happen? We’ve all tried to hold our breath for as long as we can. We take a huge intake of air and then hold it as much as we can. But, when you breathe out slowly the “air” that’s in your lungs, you don’t feel like you are going to suffocate while doing it. In fact, it’s almost like a great relief. Why is that?
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You body isn’t good at working out if you don’t have enough O2, what it is good at is knowing that you have too much CO2. So breathing and the suffocating feelings related to CO2 build up. So when you breath out, you reducing your CO2 levels, so it probably feels good rather than suffocating.
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