An internet article said that a healthy human can hold their breath 1 − 2 minutes. However, most of my friends seem to underperform, with a left skewed distribution. My average is 1 min 15 seconds. What is your average?
An internet article said that a healthy human can hold their breath 1 − 2 minutes. However, most of my friends seem to underperform, with a left skewed distribution. My average is 1 min 15 seconds. What is your average?
15 to 20 seconds, ending in coughing. I‘m a 61 year old man, obese, hypertensive, persistent dry cough, walk 5 miles once a week. I’m much worse at this than I remember myself being. I’ve got an appointment to talk to my doctor on Monday; I’ll bring this up.
Well, that spoiled my morning. I was having a wonderful morning thinking about trisecting angles and Clifford algebras. Now I’m fretting about my health. I used to fret a lot, but I mostly got rid of it using a mixture of Stoic philosophy and Bupropion. But it still happens once in a while, and this is one of those whiles.
OP, don’t feel guilty. You’ve done nothing wrong. I feel that I have to say this only because some people are so scrupulous that they would feel bad.
2:25 with hyperventilation and resting.
I pushed myself pretty hard and got 63 seconds.
Context:
31 year old male
Consistently walk 10k+ steps/day
Used to play a lot of basketball but stopped in early 20s
Racquetball once or twice a week
Lift weights once or twice a week but periodically go weeks without lifting
I’ve been trying to get started with zone 2 cardio but haven’t really gotten going
1:34 but I took a deep breath first and had to watch a video to distract myself. I’m also unsure if I didn’t breathe in a tiny bit during that process.
EDIT: I’m quite unfit, though for the past couple of years I’ve been doing 40-minutes to 1 hour of cycling every day, with 2-3 hours every week or two. Though I haven’t cycled in a couple of weeks. My bike got a flat tyre :(
62 seconds.
68-year-old woman
take a 45-60 min. walk every day
go to fitness bootcamp 2x/week
When I was young, in good shape, and doing a fair bit of snorkeling and scuba, I was able to pass 2:15 minutes consistently, and once or twice to 3:00 (but that was VERY uncomfortable).
I just tried it, and tapped out at 1:31 after enough suppression of breathing movement (diaphram pressure blocked by throat) that it was annoying. If I’d been willing to really push I likely could have gotten another 10-15 secs. Male in my mid-50s, not terribly active. I did less than 30 seconds of hyperventilation (about 4 deep exhale/inhale cycles) first, and held the final inhale.
1:15 with the use of some distraction and breathing techniques. Mid-20s male in decent health but asthma.
I remember pushing to 90 seconds at one point when experimenting with some body control techniques, but that was a couple years ago and I’d probably have to take some unhealthy measures to repeat that nowadays.