How long can you hold your breath?

[OutThere]

I just got 1 min. 32 sec. without any real practice, I have held it longer but....not tonight.:) Post your times! Here is a handy shareware timer (sorry its download.com, versiontracker didn't have a good one.) http://download.com.com/3000-2234-10197424.html?tag=lst-0-1

[zach]

One minute, 56 seconds.

[applemacdude]

1 minute and 49 seconds

[rhpenguin]

48 secconds....Smoking has killed my lung capacity.. :(

[applemacdude]

quit smoking. really. all those commercials with the good lung and teh bad lung has disgusted me for some time

[Zenith]

2 min and 9 sec. Any higher?

[King Cobra]

I agree with the quit smoking comment. And I never smoked once.

A bit of practice sitting on my chair, and I got 2:10

Edit: Zenith, I swear I was not purposely trying to beat your time. I actually pressed the reply button before you posted and I sat and kept trying. Then I posted. :D

[eyelikeart]

ok I have to ask this...

why are we all holding our breath here?! :eek:

[rhpenguin]

To kill brain cells and die faster... Why else would we do anything?

[RobVanDam]

The most I've ever held it was somewhere in three minutes, but that was a rare occasion, I can normally hit somewhere in the two minute range.

[raschild]

The header wasn't kidding when it said "random discussions about anything." Anyway, I've hit somewhere around 1min 20 secs.

[insidedanshead]

24 minutes. But I have gills so its probably a bit unfair.

[tazo]

underwater or on land? Underwater its like 30 seconds or so [:( ] however on land i wouldnt even hold my breath on.

[Stelliform]

One Minute 27 sec. I would go into why it is so low, but I am a computer geek, why would you need more info? ;)

[saint]

2 min 15 secs when I tried just then.

I think I have done 2:40 before, though.

[bousozoku]

I can't get an accurate timing--I keep passing out. ;)

[jrv3034]

I've done 2min 10sec underwater. Don't know on dry land, though, and right now I'm too sleepy to try...

What brought on the question?

[Royal Pineapple]

2:13
and im a smoker ;)

[XnavxeMiyyep]

1:03 seconds. Used to be able to do over a minute and a half, and swim the standard pool length and then some underwater, but probably not anymore.

EDIT: 1:20 now

[sparkleytone]

20 seconds. but that may have alot to do with the bottle of wine i drank tonight.

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by sparkleytone
20 seconds. but that may have alot to do with the bottle of wine i drank tonight.

haha, that might affect a little, eh?

;)

Even though I am decently fit I have no lunch capacity.

Land - 1:05
Water - 1:45

[Doctor Q]

1:40. All right, who is making the room spin?

[Durandal7]

I usually try to start breathing again before I lose consciousess.

[scem0]

Originally posted by Zenith
2 min and 9 sec. Any higher?

yeah I dived for 4 years :)

2 min 24 seconds.

set in my bathtub.

Timed with the timer on my watch.

I can't get even close to that anymore. (Probably around 1:20 or something.)

Quit diving about 4 years ago and I haven't swam but probably 5 times since I quit.

But we used to have breath holding competitions in diving class. Fun times... I sucked compared to everyone else though. I was young though, so I have an excuse...

But the breath holding competitions were not near as amazing as the hand stand competitions.

I don't know if any of y'all have heard of matt scoggin, but he is a reaaaaaaaally good diver, and he did the longest handstand I've ever seen. I don't remember how long ago this was, but it was during a handstand contest and he and one of the coaches were being headstrong and kept their handstands up for a long ass time. I just remember that matt won.

oh well..... I have school tomorrow and it is almost 2:00.

Buenos noches.

scem0

[Zenith]

Originally posted by King Cobra
I agree with the quit smoking comment. And I never smoked once.

A bit of practice sitting on my chair, and I got 2:10

Edit: Zenith, I swear I was not purposely trying to beat your time. I actually pressed the reply button before you posted and I sat and kept trying. Then I posted. :D

Hah. No problem. I knew my time would've been "beaten" shortly after posting. Btw, I've never smoked too. ;)

[void]

I got 3:02. I still have a headache.

[Mr. Anderson]

Anyone done it and passed out?

Silly thing to do anyway and you really can't count it unless its underwater...;)

D

[King Cobra]

Andy LeSauce (http://www.menunderwater.com/pages/uwdb/guiness/)

[OutThere]

Originally posted by King Cobra
Andy LeSauce (http://www.menunderwater.com/pages/uwdb/guiness/)


:eek: nearly 8 min!!!!

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Anyone done it and passed out?

Silly thing to do anyway and you really can't count it unless its underwater...;)

D

Under water and I'm dead! :( I did do it in a sealed chamber during nurse flight school training. The idea was so that we could self diagnose lack of oxygen. It caused a lot of weird behavior, laughing and confusion! It only took about 3- 4 minutes for symptoms to show up!

[RobVanDam]

Anderson, there's an easy way to make someone pass out.

Have them hold their breath and cross their arms across their chest and stand up against a wall, then push against their chest really hard.

Not very smart, but can be funny as hell.

[Doctor Q]

From the Andy LeSauce page:I just want to remind the audience, that clearly this kind activity is extremely dangerous and could cause brain damage or drowning. For those reasons, we have paramedics on hand as well as a doctor...Maybe this reminder is a worthy one to mention here too. There are few enough Mac users already, without this thread injuring/killing them. Who knows what will be next: "How long can you hold your finger in an electrical socket?" or "How far can you lean out over the railing on the Golden Gate Bridge?"

[kiwi_the_iwik]

In answer to the posted question:

How long have we been waiting for the new 15" Powerbook update?!?

:rolleyes:

[scem0]

Originally posted by OutThere761
:eek: nearly 8 min!!!!

A girl from Austin Texas (Where I live) went to Hawaii to beat that record and she died at 9:13 I think....

:(

scem0

[wdlove]

Originally posted by scem0
A girl from Austin Texas (Where I live) went to Hawaii to beat that record and she died at 9:13 I think....

:(

scem0

That is really sad. Under what circumstances di this occur scem0? :(

[mrjamin]

i stopped breathing for about 5 minutes when i was a kid once - does that count?

apparently 4mins without oxygen and you start killing some heavy-duty braincells. My 5mins hasn't affected me.

why's there a leprechaun on my desk?

[Doctor Q]

A most amazing job of singing/screaming without a breath is the 28-or-29-second middle section ("One Last Thing Before I Quit...") in the song Monkey Wrench (http://www.absolutelyric.com/a/view/Foo%20Fighters/Monkey%20Wrench/) by the Foo Fighters (http://www.foofighters.com/). Try singing at the top of your lungs for that long without a breath and you'll see that what lead singer Dave Grohl does is truly amazing. He does it live in concert, so it's not done by editing in the studio.

As a contrast, there was an entire song that sounded like it was done in two breaths by Jerry Lewis in the 1950s or early 1960s. It was named "I'm a Little Busybody" and was re-released on this Capitol Collectors Series (http://home.pages.at/rudishp/collectors.jpg) CD. Despite the ancient technology at the time, they edited it so you can't hear any breaths in the very long verses.

Neither of these songs is in the iTunes Music Store, but I have both of them on CD, so you are all invited over to listen to them anytime you want.