Q re: breathing during squats

OK, I admit it, I've been working out for 5 years and it was only this week that this board shamed me into actually doing squats (you mean I have more muscles besides my arms and chest?!?!)

Anyway, something ain't right with my breathing....it sure seems that I should be exhaling when I push up, which means I should be inhaling when I go down (or after I get down, maybe?), but it seems like my chest is too compressed (or my diaphramgm is pushed up too far?) to inhale a good amount of air when I'm at bottom.....how do you guys do this?

thanks....

hhmm

...i dont know bro it always has been natural to me, but ill bump it for ya...

Well I think i just take a deep breath and make sure im tight befor I go down into full squat position. I breath out after I have started going back up. Hope this helps.

if i don't breathe right, i get light headed and puke. . . . it is no different than any other exercise, the more u do it the more u will get used to it

start light and work on form rest will come naturally.

Here is what I do bro. I am not sure if it is the proper way but it seems to work well for me.

I take a huge deep breath at the top to provide maximum pressure in my abdominal and chest cavity. Combined with tensing my abs tight and With a belt on this provides a very strong midsection to hold the weight. I keep that breath all the way down and then explode out of the hole as fast and as powerful as I can. Then at about a third of the way up I start to blow out the breath slowly so that I don't run out of breath before i get to the top.

If I realease the air before I hit that third of the way up point I tend to get unstable adn will start to lose my midsection, that is usually when I end up bailing out.

highlandgamer said:

[....... Then at about a third of the way up I start to blow out the breath slowly so that I don't run out of breath before i get to the top.

If I realease the air before I hit that third of the way up point I tend to get unstable adn will start to lose my midsection, that is usually when I end up bailing out. [/B]

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Thanks, braveheart That is exactly what I was strugglling with; maybe I *do* take in enough air, it's just that I was exhaling it all too soon.