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Holding your breath during exercises

I hold my breathe during reps, have tried breathing during reps but just feels weird and it effects my lifts in a bad way, so hold breathe during reps and breathe I between reps...
 
Holding a big breath during deadlifts always gives me the dizz.. need a bench nearby as a back up measure! Never had such problems with any of my other lifts though.
 
Jungman said:
Holding a big breath during deadlifts always gives me the dizz.. need a bench nearby as a back up measure! Never had such problems with any of my other lifts though.
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Likewise, really near to passing out the other day... I sometimes get that a little with squats as well.
 
LOL some very interesting replies, it seems most people hold their breath the entire movement only inhaling/exhaling at the start of the rep.

For squats I inhale during the first 1/3 of the way down then i hold my breath and contract abs the rest of the way down and up until i'm close to the top where i exhale quickly and then repeat. Would this be wrong? I find inhaling completely and exhaling only at the start of the rep messes up my rhythm...
 
i hold my breath for most reps, bench especially, i find it helps keep my body locked so i can work the chosen muscle, i will normally knock out as many reps as i can on one breath before i relax and breathe then do it all again to finish the set
 
Breathing and bracing is dependent on the exercise, and the intensity of that exercise. I teach what is necessary with the athlete based on this.
 
Squat and bench press, I breathe in while locked out at the top, hold throughout the rep, and breathe out once locked out again. Deadlift I breathe in while the bar's dead on the floor, and either wait until it's back on the floor before I breathe out, or breathe out once I've locked out at the top. Overhead press I breathe while the bar's on my shoulders. Most isolation exercises, I inhale on the concentric and exhale on the eccentric.
 
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