Show HN: Are you sedentary? See if you can hold your breath for 40 seconds

Show HN: Are you sedentary? See if you can hold your breath for 40 seconds(holdbreathfor40seconds.com)

5 points by mbappe123 3 years ago | 7 comments

Hey hackers, do you have a sedentary lifestyle? Holding your breath for 40 seconds might be tougher than you think. Try it out with holdbreathfor40seconds.com and test your lung capacity!

(We're are working on an app that helps boost your health with quick 5-minute activities.We learned it is hard for tech people, who have a sedentary lifestyle to even hold their breath for 30 seconds(not all, but some) - so made this simple web page to test it).

Let me know your comments.

ThrowawayR2 3 years ago |

Posted previously 14 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34858491

mbappe123 3 years ago | |

It was flagged due to the content. So changed that and posted again.

giardini 3 years ago |

Seemed too easy so I kept holding my (same) breath, clicked back and ran thru an additional 40 seconds. Even at 80 seconds I wasn't uncomfortable. I think I could do 120 pretty easy.

I chalk it all up to being a good programmer - that is, being lazy and using minimal resources.

mbappe123 3 years ago | |

Great to see you have good lung capacity. But when we tested it with over 50 tech employees and banking employees, a lot of them approximately 32 have some problems holding air for more than 30 seconds. Might be due to their lifestyle, their smoking habits etc.

anovikov 3 years ago | |

ok 120 looks really a lot, but it makes me scared that someone can't hold their breath for 40 seconds...

mbappe123 3 years ago | | |

in fact, actually its created to show others too, about their lung capacity and to take precautions or change habits that, affects their health.

pestatije 3 years ago |

I got bored past 40s and went back to HN