008: A Relaxation Mental Training Technique to Help Lower Stress & Anxiety
Release Date: 04/05/2021
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...
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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...
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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:
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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:
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
info_outlineAs 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 stressful situations and just in life in general.
It's a technique I use for freediving but anyone can benefit from it, whether you're an athlete, in the military, or if you're a performer, an actor or musician, if you're someone with a stressful job or if you're preparing for a business meeting. Either way it works the same, it builds something in your mind, that you can use in stressful situations to become more relaxed. And you can do this right at home just laying down on a yoga mat.
I can also personally confirm that the combination of short breath-holds, complete relaxation and concentration / mindfulness generates a sensation of euphoria and rapture, which creates mental clarity that may rest in the body for hours or even days after a session!
Time Stamps:
- 00:00 Introduction to this episode
- 01:30 Podcast intro
- 03:05 Why are we doing this - the Effects of Stress
- 08:10 What we will do in this session?
- 09:20 Recap of the relaxation breathing technique
- 11:00 Adding the mental relaxation breathing
- 18:30 Conclusion
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