Stop Breathing to Help Your Squat

Click bait title? Actually, no. Learning how to breathe and brace properly is essential for squatting, benching, and deadlifting at your max potential, safely. An important piece of this is being able to generate and withstand pressure. If you don't feel like your eyes are going to pop out of your skull at the bottom of squat, bench, or deadlift, then you're doing it wrong. One way that I've found to 'train' this feeling, is by breathing, bracing, and hitting as many reps as possible before breathing again. I don't remember if this was something I picked up along the way, or did naturally, but I do remember Vince Dizenzo talking about it at an UGSS years ago. I never thought to coach it - partially for liability purposes - "stop breathing" wouldn't go over well from a legal perspective. However, IF you are confident in your breathing and bracing technique, AND you have competent spotters, this might be worth a try for you. I would do this with a max effort set - I typically use these on sub maximal weights for 3-5 reps. Again, trying to get as many reps in before having to reset. It's a good way to train your brace and train your body to withstand, and ultimately create, more pressure.   5 plates + 3 chains a side for a triple, one breath [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgY7h2Q4lto]