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Pick one job
IHHT for empty-lung capacity, Box for control under load, 4–6 to downshift after training. One protocol per session — no guesswork.
Breathe all the way out. Then hold. That time — to the second — is a trainable measure of CO₂ tolerance, and almost nobody in your gym knows where they'd land.
The Gap
Heart rate to the beat. Splits to the second. Sleep staged, macros weighed, HRV trended for two years. Then the system running underneath all of it — the one that decides whether you hold pace or fold in the transition — has no number at all.
Not because it can't be measured. Because nothing was measuring it.
Where you'd land
Empty lungs, not full. The four-minute breath-holds you've seen online start with a full inhale and measure something else entirely. Exhale first and the numbers get small, honest, and trainable.
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IHHT for empty-lung capacity, Box for control under load, 4–6 to downshift after training. One protocol per session — no guesswork.
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No feed, no guru, no soundtrack standing in for the work. The LED counts every second and stops when you stop.
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Every rep is written to the second against the date — the line a stopwatch and a good memory can never give you.



4 Sessions This Week
Built for the transitions
Not the sled. Not the wall balls. The ninety seconds between them, when your breathing decides whether you start the next run on pace or twenty seconds down.
Coaches in this sport already prescribe breath-hold work to raise CO₂ tolerance. What none of them have is the instrument — a number for where you started, and a line showing where it went.
stations, one engine
between each of them
of it spent at rest
The science
Empty-lung breath holds are intermittent hypoxia — a real, trainable stimulus. When oxygen drops, HIF-1α switches on the genes behind EPO and VEGF: more oxygen-carrying capacity, more blood flow. It's the same adaptation altitude athletes chase — and you get it in a chair.
In a controlled study, trained men doing this saw growth hormone climb 1.5 to 5.6 times baseline. We time every hold to the second and write it down, so over ninety days you watch your own line climb.
Practice seated or lying down — never in water or a car.
The record
A single time tells you almost nothing. Sleep, caffeine, altitude and stress all move it. What means something is the shape of two hundred of them.
That's the part that can't be rebuilt. Delete the app after a year and you're not losing a timer — you're losing the only record of what your breathing actually did.
No card to start. Every protocol, every hold written, the full history and the stats. On day seven you either keep the record or you don't.
Yearly
Most take thisper year · 7-day trial
Lifetime
once · no trial
Web first today — install the PWA on your phone for full-screen sessions.
Who trains this
Apnea athletes, altitude climbers and tactical teams have trained CO₂ tolerance for years, because in their work the ceiling is obvious. Hybrid racing found it about ten minutes ago. Every breath-hold app on the store is still built for the pool.
Endurance · Hyrox · CrossFit · Combat sports · First responders · Pilots · Freedivers
Before you ask
For one rep, yes. The product is the two hundredth rep and the line connecting them — plus a protocol that makes the reps comparable to each other.
On a full inhale, probably. Exhale everything first and most people who say that land under fifty seconds. Different test, different scale.
Seated, on land, at rest — yes. Never in or near water, never in a car. Shallow-water blackout is the real hazard in this category and it gives no warning.
You're asked for a card. Decline and nothing is deleted — the log goes read-only and your history stays.
Find out where you land