Vitomir Maricic, a freediver from Croatia, did something incredible on June 14: He held his breath for 29 minutes and three seconds, shattering the previous world record by nearly five minutes. For ...

Kate Winslet says she "smashed my own record by a minute" when she dove underwater for seven minutes and 15 seconds Tommy McArdle is a Writer-Reporter on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He joined the brand ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The act of breathing has been central to life on Earth since the beginning, and the average human will take more than 600 million breaths in a single ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. You can go through ...

How long could you comfortably stay underwater without coming up for air? Thirty seconds? Maybe a couple of minutes? How about 24? That is the current world record for breath-holding held by Alex ...

If you could patent and sell the idea of holding your breath before exercise to boost performance, it would be a bestseller. Not because it works, necessarily—the jury is still out on that. But ...