Nerves...?? Getting there.

As i wrote after my 1st competition, nerves played a big part in my lack of performance. Hitting 6min 20sec in STA a few days before and regularly going over the 6min mark on many statics i found myself pulling up at 4min 51sec due to nerves! This is something i have had to work hard on prior to competing again this year. Contraction time usually starts from 3min 30sec when I'm on form but this was massively reduced with the onset on nerves.

I done some NLP this year which sort of worked, years ago i went though hypnotherapy for another issue which saved my life so i was kind of hoping NLP would deliver the same results. Unfortunately not. Regular training sessions around lots of other people is key as all of my training as been away from other freedivers over the last 2yrs. This was the main reason i have started training at London Freedivers. Thursday was a good session and enabled me to start getting over these nerves and start going forward.

I started with statics but just timing when the 1st contraction kicked it and to my surprise they were only 15secs out throughout all my holds, with this in mind i will continue to train there as much as possible before i go out to Dahab.

Wednesday session went o.k, i managed a 5min 15sec static and felt fine throughout the hold, i then went into dynamics and unfortunately bumped into someone coming up to the 100mtr mark so surfaced at the 100mtr stage.

I had done no Co2 tables for over a week and have started to train a lot less now, the 2wks training in Dahab should be fine to get me on track. When i first started training i would only train once a week for 2hrs and my performances went up each week until i went over the 6min static mark, thinking on the same lines now and being careful as to not over train.