The Freediving Podcast

In this episode of The Freediving Podcast , Renee Blundon explores the power of simply starting - whether it's freediving, learning, or pursuing a dream. From post-training reflections over a chocolate sea salt RX bar to deep insights on time, transformation, and Carl Jung's idea of circumambulation, Renee shares how beginnings, no matter how small, shape the path forward. She reflects on her own...

In this episode, we dive deep into the concept of safety in freediving, exploring how it's not just about avoiding danger, but about fostering awareness, planning, and mindful presence. I share insights from my training session, where I attempt a maximum distance dive in dynamic apnea. Freediving, as I've come to understand, requires a unique blend of technical precision, mental focus, and a safet...

In this episode, we explore the deep connection between freediving and personal growth, reflecting on what it means to follow an instinctual passion without needing a rational reason. Renee Blundon shares personal insights from returning to freediving after a break and the profound sense of peace it brings. By focusing on the art of doing one thing at a time - whether in the water or in life - the...

Freediving allows me that escape to another world, and has me challenge and question what it is that I think I know. It humbles and broadens my perspective, with every dive a new experience filled with surprises, opening my mind to a new level of awareness.  You can join the open source information network for this podcast at:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefreedivingpodcast/ To subscribe to...

We are really lucky in that we can choose to build relationships, friendships and the community around us, as we persue our goals and passions in life, which I think is a key step in choosing to be happy :) You can join the open source information network for this podcast at:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefreedivingpodcast/ To subscribe to my Friday 5 newsletter visit: https://www.reneeblund...

This episode about the Apnea Squats Challenge, an AWESOME dry training for freediving to prepare the legs for constant weight freediving and dynamic apnea in the pool. To do this training, you always start with a static apnea breath-hold sitting on a chair (minimum 60 seconds static) and then do as many squats as you can (must be a 90 degree angle minimum). REPEAT TWICE. 5 times per week. The brea...

Today is day 1 of my 2022 freediving season. It's been almost two weeks since the Freediving World Cup competition, which marked the end of my 2021 season, and now I'm excited to apply all of the new insights I've learned throughout this year. Today I begin base training, starting with a swimming training session, designed by my coach Florian Dagoury. This training is aimed to stretch the ribcage,...

A discussion with Sally Norton and Renee Blundon about oxalates and how they impact freediving, athletic performance and overall health. We will discuss; what ARE oxalates, what foods are they in, how the 'super foods' we are consuming may not be so super (!!!), how low oxalate eating can be extremely beneficial for health and athletic performance & recovery AND MORE! Resources / References: For m...

Today's episode is a guided freedive visualization, that you can listen to anytime before your freedive. Renee will guide you in creating an inspiring vivid mental picture of a deep target dive from start to finish. Many freediving athletes routinely use visualization techniques as part of their mental training for freediving. It helps to enhance your techniques just through mental repetition and...

"The Nose Is For Breathing, The Mouth is for Eating." How do you breathe? Through your mouth or through your nose? It might be something you've never given much thought about. But on this episode, competitive freediver, Renee Blundon, will try to convince you that you should.  Breathing through the nose, Renee believes, is the secret to better health, wellbeing and performance. And yet, most of us...

"The Nose Is For Breathing, The Mouth is for Eating" How do you breathe? Through your mouth or through your nose? It might be something you've never given much thought about. But on this episode (as well as the next episode), competitive freediver, Renee Blundon, will try to convince you that you should.  Breathing through the nose, Renee believes, is the secret to better health, wellbeing and per...

As a freediver who battles with anxiety attacks, I am constantly inventing and testing-out new methods for mental training, especially for relaxation, because the more relaxed you are, the longer you can hold your breath! In this podcast episode, I'll talk about a relaxation breathing and mental training technique that can help massively to lower anxiety and train the mind to be more relaxed in st...

Relaxation breathing is a powerful tool for freediving and for life in general in order to decrease your heart rate and help calm the body and mind. In this podcast episode, I'll go over a relaxation breathing technique, also known as the 'Branko Petrovic Technique', which is used in freediving to help you relax deeply before your freedives and breath-holds. It slows down your breathing and intake...

Looking for tips for deep freediving? In this episode, Renee talks about what was happening in her training preventing her from freediving deeper than 72 meters, as well as the 6 changes implemented in order to overcome her issues with hypoxia and lack of flexibility so she can dive deeper more easily. The six changes were recommended by Renee's remote freediving coach, Florian Dagoury, in order t...

Freediving is a unique sport and has very few similarities with other sports. Most of the top level freedivers train intensively for months on end, year after year, and hours upon hours per day in the pool, at the gym and depth, sacrificing social activities for yoga and sleep. How do these freedivers maintain such high motivation? Well all freedivers, even the most skilled and successful freedive...

Welcome to the fourth episode of the Freediving Podcast by Renee Blundon. This episode is about motivation and goal setting for freediving. Motivation is the cornerstone of success for every great freediving athlete and every great freediving achievement. In this episode I'll go over motivation, what it is, where does it come from and why is it so important for freediving? I'll also talk about goa...

Welcome to the third episode of the Freediving Podcast by Renee Blundon. This episode is part one of five about the mental training and techniques that the world's top freedivers use to prepare for their deep dives. The freedivers at the highest level, may be somewhat well matched in terms of their breath-hold ability, conditioning, their physical abilities and skill level. But that alone is not e...

Welcome to the second episode of the Freediving Podcast by Renee Blundon. This episode is part two about nutrition to improve your lung health and lung function for freediving while at the same time, improving your immune system to make it more resilient to COVID-19 and other viruses and bacteria. This episode will focus on vitamin D and N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) in detail and will also touch on a f...

Welcome to the first episode of the Freediving Podcast by Renee Blundon. In this episode, I'll talk about nutrition specifically for freediving and improving your lung function and lung capacity, in order to make your lungs stronger, healthier and more flexible for freediving while at the same time, improving your immune system, making it more resilient to COVID-19 and other viruses and bacteria....

In Episode Zero of the Freediving Podcast, I introduce the purpose of the podcast and how I hope to structure future episodes to provide weekly information about freediving training concepts, nutrition for freediving, fitness for freediving, mental training techniques, freediving preparation, breathing and breath-hold techniques and helpful advice for freediving in a safe, sustainable and healthy...