Book excerpt: This textbook provides a method that allows freedivers and spearfishermen to identify a training path, aimed at optimizing their results. Detailed guidance is provided on how to structure the various stages of specific preparation for Static, Dynamic, Deep Freediving and Spearfishing.It contains innovative training strategies and new specific exercises and series that can be combined with the traditional ones. You can learn new ideas on how to organize the annual timetable of the training (sequences, orders, frequencies) when to increase the workload, how and when to finalize the specific workout, depending on the discipline.While Umberto Pelizzari shares his experience and his training methodologies and how these latter have evolved and adapted throughout the years.This manual is addressed to good level freedivers, spearfishermen and trainers, who are looking for answers about training and programs. Additionally it can be used by swimmers who want to train their own freediving skills in order to improve their performance. Over 250 pages with helpful pictures and explanatory tables that gather the result of years of experience of one of the worldwide greatest freedivers.Finally it includes interviews of some of the best freedivers in the world: Čolak, Lozano, Molchanov, Musimu, Nery, Nitsch, Petrovic, Trubridge, Zecchini, Zuccari.