From Zaragoza down in apnea in the deepest swimming pool in the world

“It’s still harder.” It seems that this is one of the mottos of life Alberto Alfariz who, at the age of 34, has managed to accomplish one of the last challenges he sets himself: Hit the bottom in the world’s deepest swimming pool. How do? Doing extreme sports: respiratory failure. And so, on December 25, this resident of Zaragoza Born in Malaga, he became the seventh person on the planet to achieve this. platform? neither more nor less than Dubai. A very original way to celebrate Christmas, on the other side of the world.

opened in june 2021, Deep Dive Dubai is a 60 meter deep pool It contains neither more nor less than 14 million liters of water. “I was able to achieve two goals: on the one hand, to hit rock bottom using only the air from my lungs, and on the other hand; hold your breath in static apnea for 10 minutes and 33 seconds. A good point to continue learning more about this amazing sport,” claims the champion of this game. the story.

That is, if there was something that drew Alberto about the sport they had met just a year earlier, it was the fact that he had put his own boundaries to the test. “We have traveled to Dubai up to five times to prepare for the test. Since then, our flights have been transformed to add this practice as a variable when determining destination, length of stay, and other variables,” he confirms.

And it is that this apnea thing is just a hobby, or, as he himself asserts, “another way to test myself every day.” And an activity that goes along with his work, which is to spread a healthy lifestyle. for a decade, with his partner, Marina Marquez (36), from Zaragoza; Giving life to the “Macro Wizard” project, They have over 200,000 followers and travel the world as “digital nomads”, promoting a different, healthy way of life.

His project was born in 2012, to be precise, in Zaragoza. But why would the digital nomad choose the capital of Aragon as his base of operations? “At that time, Apple, where I worked, sent me from the UK to continue its expansion in Spain. I soon discovered a city that surprised me because of the ease of getting around on foot, its magnificent cathedral and the friendliness of its people,” he admits.

“In 2010 I managed to lose 65 kilos after more than two decades without realizing my habits”

His life has changed a lot in all this time because, two years ago, Alvarez was going through a physical change, even though he didn’t seem to care; He did not go unnoticed either in his environment or through his social networks. In 2010 I managed to lose 65 kilos after more than two decades without realizing my habits. Goals or something like that,” he explains. What he didn’t know was that this personal change would change his life.

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“I didn’t give it much importance, but a lot of people asked me how I achieved it. For me it was more than just changing my body. It was completely changing the way I see and interact with the world,” he continues. A change that would lead him, 13 years later, to become the seventh person to dive into the world’s deepest pool: “Being the seventh person to touch the bottom of the world’s deepest swimming pool sounds like something reserved for superhumans, right? Nothing could be further from reality.”

Yes, there is a different way of life

The famous phrase “every effort pays off” is gaining strength in this media project that seeks to stir consciences. “We don’t reach millions of people online because we’re viral. We do it for the perseverance to contribute something useful on a daily basis, not to sell ourselves at the first opportunity and to value our integrity, the scientific method and the provision of high-quality information, ”confirms Alberto, who has spent years training In nutrition, sports and health.

Very few things are meant for the superhuman and with a little bit of educational work figuring out what we really want and a good dose of work, perseverance and humility to keep learning, Almost everything is at our fingertips“, he claims.

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Since 2012, ‘The Macro Wizard’ has never stopped growing, and what started as a hobby, in 2017 has become his way of life. “An extraordinary way of life based on freedom and peace of mind,” he says. To date, Alvarez has published four books on healthy lifestyle – A Wizard in the Kitchen, 2018; Nutrition and Training Pyramids (1 and 2), in 2019; and “Dare to Eat”, 2021 – sold over 120,000 copies; It runs a newsletter that is read by more than two million people annually.