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The Apneist
This work was written by one of my students and friend, whom I met in 2007 at a world championship in Egypt and who I trained as an instructor at my Apnea Academy, a year later.
Antonio Del Ducafocusesonthismanuscript, andfromhisownperception, a very ambitious purpose, which is to teach the reader how to achieve an Apnea recordinonlythreemonthswhichwouldtakeyears. To doso, theauthorsupported his work in three key components: physiology, psychology and training.
Del Duca, with a unique style, fuses these three points focusing mainly on the power of the mind, developed in the chapter “Psychology of Apnea”, in which practitioners of this discipline will feel identified because the author seems to read the mind of what happens to most of the apneists, when they are underwater.
According to what Antonio told me, in his years of competitive race, he developed an unorthodox method to control his mind and body, and after years of competing, he found out that the afore mentioned method has several explanations into the psychology field. For this reason, in his work Antonio quoted some psychologists who formulated theories for the study of mental conditioning, which later became in physical conditioning.
The added value of this text is the mental technique, since with the mastery of this procedure, the reader of this book will be able to improve his/ her performance, without the danger of a black out. Similarly you will find here the tools to avoid this accident or to recover yourself through psychological
desensitization techniques.
In this book, as its author explains, physical training goes hand in hand with mental training, and that is why he manages to combine, in one
purpose, body and mind, the key to succeed in this discipline.
As a world-renowned apneist, with a long history in the world of free diving, and with the experience and satisfaction that the fact of having written several apnea books with some of my expert collaborators in different disciplines have given me, I would like to express that this book is a pretty practical orientation
that goes directly to what any apneist is looking for: to achieve the best results using the shortest possible time.
I hope you enjoy reading this work as I did; and especially I hope that this book would be useful to achieve the balance between the physical and mental issues, which are consequently important to perform apnea safely and enjoying the depths.
Profoundly, Umberto Pelizzari
Antonio Del Ducafocusesonthismanuscript, andfromhisownperception, a very ambitious purpose, which is to teach the reader how to achieve an Apnea recordinonlythreemonthswhichwouldtakeyears. To doso, theauthorsupported his work in three key components: physiology, psychology and training.
Del Duca, with a unique style, fuses these three points focusing mainly on the power of the mind, developed in the chapter “Psychology of Apnea”, in which practitioners of this discipline will feel identified because the author seems to read the mind of what happens to most of the apneists, when they are underwater.
According to what Antonio told me, in his years of competitive race, he developed an unorthodox method to control his mind and body, and after years of competing, he found out that the afore mentioned method has several explanations into the psychology field. For this reason, in his work Antonio quoted some psychologists who formulated theories for the study of mental conditioning, which later became in physical conditioning.
The added value of this text is the mental technique, since with the mastery of this procedure, the reader of this book will be able to improve his/ her performance, without the danger of a black out. Similarly you will find here the tools to avoid this accident or to recover yourself through psychological
desensitization techniques.
In this book, as its author explains, physical training goes hand in hand with mental training, and that is why he manages to combine, in one
purpose, body and mind, the key to succeed in this discipline.
As a world-renowned apneist, with a long history in the world of free diving, and with the experience and satisfaction that the fact of having written several apnea books with some of my expert collaborators in different disciplines have given me, I would like to express that this book is a pretty practical orientation
that goes directly to what any apneist is looking for: to achieve the best results using the shortest possible time.
I hope you enjoy reading this work as I did; and especially I hope that this book would be useful to achieve the balance between the physical and mental issues, which are consequently important to perform apnea safely and enjoying the depths.
Profoundly, Umberto Pelizzari
194 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 25, 2019
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April 7, 2023
Excelente libro para cualquier nivel de conocimiento en apnea, especialmente para quienes inician, ya que su lectura es de fácil entendimiento.
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