Musculoskeletal Minute

Understanding Pain By Understanding Freediving


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Freedivers push their bodies to amazing limits. Limits far beyond what seems humanly possible. However, part of their secret is powerful physiology that we all have and the other part is their mental control. Yes, you heard that right. Listen to find out what mental tricks freedivers use to push their bodies past comfort and activate our human physiology. 


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Resources 

This is a great thesis about freediving psychology but also covers the physiology.

https://repositorio.ul.pt/bitstream/10451/38422/1/ulfpie053330_tm.pdf

These are shorter articles written for the public by a freediving instructor about physiology and psychology

Physiology: http://www.discoveryourdepths.com/about-freediving/freediving-physiology

Psychology: http://www.discoveryourdepths.com/about-freediving/freediving-psychology



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