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005: How to Motivate Yourself to Become a Better Freediver

Release Date: 11/05/2020

018: The Safety Mindset in Freediving - Going Beyond Safe Into the Alive

The Freediving Podcast

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 safety mindset developed over time. The episode delves into the three essential phases of safety in freediving: mental preparation, handling challenges during the dive, and, if needed, rescue by a...

017: Freediving, the Art of Becoming & Purposeful Living

The Freediving Podcast

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 episode reveals how practicing mindfulness can enhance your relationships and overall well-being. Renee discusses the mental toughness and physical awareness required in freediving, especially during...

016: Why do I Freedive? In a Nutshell

The Freediving Podcast

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: To subscribe to my Friday 5 newsletter visit: My contact information: [email protected] SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: Website: Twitter: Facebook Page: Facebook Group:

015: How to Be Happy

The Freediving Podcast

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: To subscribe to my Friday 5 newsletter visit: My contact information: [email protected] SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: Website: Twitter: Facebook Page: Facebook Group:

014: Apnea Squats Challenge - A Dry Training for Freediving

The Freediving Podcast

This episode is about the Apnea Squats Challenge, an AWESOME dry training for freediving to prepare the legs for CWT freediving and dynamic apnea in the pool. To do this training, you start with a 1+ min. static apnea breath-hold sitting on a chair and then do as many squats as you can. REPEAT TWICE. 5X per week. The breathe-up is tidal breathing + 2 purge breaths, and then one full breath. For more info about this training, check-out the show notes at: https://www.reneeblundon.com/apnea-squats-challenge

013: Training Journal: Swimming Base Training Sesh

The Freediving Podcast

Today is day 1 of my 2022 freediving season. It's been almost 2 weeks since the Freediving World Cup competition, which marked the end of my 2021 season, and now I'm excited to apply all the new insights I've learned throughout this year. Today I begin my base training with a swimming session, designed by my coach Florian Dagoury. This training is aimed to stretch the ribcage, train the muscles to use O2 slower with less lactic, providing a mild CO2 workout. I like it because it also gets you super fit!

012: Low Oxalate Eating for Freediving Performance

The Freediving Podcast

A discussion with Sally Norton and Renee Blundon about oxalates and how they impact freediving, athletic performance and overall health.

011: Freediving Visualization - Visualize Your Dive!

The Freediving Podcast

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 freedive from start to finish. Many freediving athletes use visualization techniques as part of their training for freediving. It helps to cultivate a heightened state of mental awareness, which can boost your self confidence and your overall well-being, therefore enhancing your freediving performance.

010: Rethink Your Breathing - Part 2 Mouth Breathing vs Nose Breathing

The Freediving Podcast

Breathing through the nose is the secret to better health, wellbeing and performance. Yet, most of us breathe through our mouths so our health and performance suffers.

009: Rethink Your Breathing - Part 1 Mouth Breathing vs Nose Breathing

The Freediving Podcast

"The Nose Is For Breathing, The Mouth is for Eating" How do you breathe? It might be something you've never given much thought about. But on this episode, freediver, Renee Blundon, will try to convince you that you should.

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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 freedivers, have times with they feel a bit unmotivated. But the best freedivers know how to overcome this and stay motivated in order to keep the momentum going and keep improving as a freediver. This podcast provides some tips on how to motivate yourself to become a better freediver.

This episode is part three in the podcast series, Inside the Mind of the World's Top Freedivers, about mental techniques for freediving.

Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction to the podcast
01:15 Recap of the last episode
04:55 Continuing where left off and other factors that help motivation for freediving
05:29 Loving the grind of freediving
13:10 Giving out mentally before physically
17:11 Do you really need to love the grind? Accepting the grind
18:49 Be positive and optimistic!
24:53 Negativity leading to over-training and burn-out
26:18 Pick a freediving competition
31:21Self talk and rational thinking for freediving
35:46 Stay in the moment!
41:19 Have a good coach!
43:10 Or have a good training buddy
44:10 Be curious!
46:30 Motivational cues for motivation
48:44 What motivates me to freedive?
51:54 Conclusion