Breathing in resistance exercises

[Cain]

Hmm.....in this exercise I noticed that many people hold their breath while doing this exercise....I myself did not realise it until I exhaled suddenly while doing them. And if I try to breath normally while doing them, the push-ups actually became more difficult.

Now the question is do you breath in a specific way for your push-ups. or is it of no importance to you?

Note

This question also applies to weight training.

|Cain|

[LilBunnyRabbit]

I just breathe, same as with techniques, patterns, and so on. (except for kiyapping of course)

[YODA]

Hi Cain

On resistance exercises you should breath out whilst doing the positive phase of the movement (The hard part). Although with low resistance like pushups it's probably not that important.

[Cain]

Hmm....thanx Yoda...but when u said low resistance.....u meant weights rite?

|Cain|

[YODA]

Originally posted by cain_charlie
Hmm....thanx Yoda...but when u said low resistance.....u meant weights rite?

|Cain|

Possibly - I consider anything that you can perform more than 15 times without reaching failure to be "low resistance".

[Cain]

Hmm....must make note of that........thanx.

I gotta make somebody sit on my back when doing push-ups to make it a high resistance exercise :D

|Cain|