Mark Ottobre explains how holding your breath during a squat creates internal tension that stabilizes your lift. Inhale through your nose to expand your rib cage when loading the bar, then brace for each rep as if it's one continuous movement.
If I'm squatting, the more you hold your breath, the stronger you will be. You're going to increase intra-abdominal pressure. I want to create as much tension, stability inside the body as possible. In order to do that, your breath is actually a part of that, and you've also got to know where to breathe. You're not just going breathing in through your mouth. You want to breathe in through your nose, right? Especially if there's weight on your bar, and you want to expand your rib cage. Say if I'm doing a set of six. 6. I'm not doing 6 reps. I'm doing 1 rep repeated 6 times. In this position, I'm gonna
