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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Because getting rid of the Co2 is what wants your body the most. This is what makes you want to breathe. A normal breath just absorbs about 20% of the oxygen taken in at any time. So holding in and slowly exhaling along the way is the best tactic for holding breath the longest.
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