[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
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I’m not sure I agree with this advice, even if it is accurate. Pushing air against your belt keeps your body tight through the lift, and when you blow it out you lose tightness. I’d rather be tight and get a headache later than get loose on a big lift.
Here is a thread with Meat’s advice on breathing and bench, and I am pretty sure he advises the same for all the big lifts, DL and Squat included.
In short, I try not to breath during a big lift. If I have to breath, its at the top of the lift.
My .02 cents.
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I understand completely what you’re saying and I agree with you (about holding air to keep tight)
I hold my air during the bottom portion of the lift, say on squat, I hold it on the descent and in the hole, when I come out of the hole, I start pushing a bit of the air out as I stand up with it. Kind of like how a damn lets a bit of water through to keep the whole thing from busting.
If meat said something different, do what he said.