One of the biggest challenges of breath holding is adapted from his body and face deprevation sense of oxygen. A popular training technique is the apnea walk.
This consists of a preparation “breathe-up, followed by a short (typically 1 minute) breath are taken at rest. Without breaking the hold, the participant then initiates a walk as far as he can, until it becomes necessary to breathe. Athletes can do about 400 meters in training this way.
This technique allows the body learns to cope with the accumulation of CO2 and trains the muscles to work anaerobically. It is also very easy to track your progress, and you only need to record the distance you can travel while holding your breath.
