Vitomir Maricic, a Croatian freediver, may not have squatted 800 lbs like Ronnie Coleman, but even his 661 lbs squat took ...

Freediving has been going on for hundreds of years, starting with pearl diving. It's holding your breath and diving without any breathing apparatus, and it's developed into a sport. RYG: Tell me about ...

Did you know that the average human takes over 600 million breaths in their lifetime? As our key survival function, breathing is so necessary that it is primarily an involuntary act–it’s hardwired ...

Research reveals how natural selection shaped the Bajau sea nomads’ spleens to boost oxygen delivery, helping them dive for minutes on a single breath. For more than a thousand years, the Bajau — ...