Freedive
Fitness Testing
Enhance your strengths and address your weaknesses with our freedive fitness analysis reports and personalised programmes.
Discover what's holding you back from your goals
Our Freedive Performance Testing Lab, the first of its kind in freediving, evaluates your mental and physical limitations, abilities, and performance, identifying the most effective training methods for rapid improvement.
Measuring your unique response to targeted exercises, we will test your freediving fitness against data collected from working with over 100 athletes through personalised coaching and training.
Uncovering insights into your strengths, weaknesses, and what might be negatively impacting your progress. You will receive a detailed yet easy-to-understand report with training recommendations.
Providing targeted dynamic apnea exercises, with training volume, recovery, and distance adjusted to your needs, to help improve your problem areas, and empower you to move confidently towards your goals.
The Test - Measuring Your Urge To Breathe
Using targeted exercises, we measure the specific way(s) that your unique physiology responds to the urge to breathe in specific and controlled situations so that we can gain a deeper understanding of your overall freedive fitness. Understanding a diver’s reaction to the urge to breathe can reveal almost everything we need to know about their stamina, conditioning, hypoxic tolerance, strengths, and weaknesses.
Comfort Zone
We test the onset of the urge to breathe (first contraction / end of comfort zone) in various settings, such as long dives, 50-metre repetitions, and 25-metre repetitions.
Threshold
Testing on 25m or 50m repetitions (depending on your abilities), we look at where your urge to breathe begins to build up at an unsustainable rate, meaning you begin to fatigue or lose efficiency.
Maximum Capacity
Finally, we test your maximum urge to breathe capacity on 25m or 50m repetitions (depending on your abilities), which indicates the point where the urge to breathe becomes too great to continue.
Insights
Finding out when these markers occur and the relationship between the three gives us a lot of insight into what type of training you need to work on, whether that’s developing a bigger comfort zone, improving your capacity to manage the urge to breathe, or raising your upper limits.
Choose a package that best suits your needs and budget
Stop guessing and repeating the same mistakes over and over. Start seeing measurable performance improvements.
Even if you’re limited by Hypoxia (O2), lactic acid, stamina, mental motivation, or control, the answer to ‘why’ those things are happening and what you need to do about it lies in your urge to breathe response.
When you fix your weaknesses, your performance will improve. It's that simple.
Less guesswork
Understanding your freediving strengths and weaknesses can help you make smarter training decisions and better monitor long-term progress. You will receive a personalised testing protocol with simple exercises to measure key freedive fitness markers, with the results informing our training recommendations.
More targeted
These markers can help identify areas of your freedive fitness that need improvement in your training, allowing you to see measurable improvements in quality, distance, or both. Using years of experience, we make incredibly accurate predictions of what a diver will need to work on and how they will need to do it.
Backed by data
Our detailed freedive fitness performance reports will be based on both objective outcomes (distances and times) and subjective ones (feelings and sensations), compared against data from over 100 athletes we have coached for periods ranging from 3 months to 2 years, to create a comprehensive ‘profile’ of your fitness.
Optimised training
Guided by your personalised report, you will gain a deeper understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, and learn the necessary adaptations to make for noticeable improvement. Helping you to prepare in the best possible way for your next personal best performance, and enhancing your overall comfort and enjoyment for whatever diving you choose to do.
What's Inlcuded:
We'll test your performance and take a deep dive into your results
Explaining what the markers indicate about your freedive fitness, strengths, weaknesses, and what might negatively impact your progress.
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We'll share what you need to do to improve
Helping you to understand how to adapt your physiological and psychological systems to improve performance.
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We'll give you level-specific training ideas
Providing a basic overview of how you should work on these aspects at an individual level, including volume, recovery, distance, and key exercise recommendations.
*Only available on Fitness Plus
Ready-made 12-week training programmes, targeting the most common freediver fitness deficiencies.
Meet Your Coach:
Nathan Vinski
CMAS & AIDA Freediving Instructor, Coach & Ex-Competitive Diver.
Nathan Vinski is a world-renowned freediving coach and competitive freediver, featured in Netflix's “The Deepest Breath” and The Depth Collector (1) by Anthony Feoutis. The brains behind Train Freediving books, courses, and the Apnea Fitness training programmes. He's been a leading voice in freedive education for almost ten years.
Having trained a global squad of competitive freediving athletes to professional success and taught freediving courses worldwide, his mantra is “train smarter, not harder”, and the results speak for themselves.
Get in touch
Drop us a message with any questions. We're here to help.
Get in touch
Drop us a message with any questions. We're here to help.
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Train Freediving is a global leader in freediver training and education. Providing freediving courses, coaching, and digital training in Wales, the UK, and worldwide. Our approach is simple: learn to freedive comfortably and confidently – and have fun doing it! As the premier CMAS-affiliated education provider in the UK, you can trust that when it comes to learning about the sport of freediving, there's no one better to guide you.
