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How do you breathe? I have never really breathed in my life, correctly anyway. From what I've heard, you expand your lungs, like in your chest, and you should deflate your lungs when you breathe out. How is this possible? Also, how do you breathe better so you don't run out of breathe? I usually do in like a minute and a half. I do wheeze from time to time, though I doubt that has anything to do with it.
>> Anonymous
GTFO.
>> Anonymous
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you dont know how to breathe?
>> Anonymous
Why are you still alive?
>> Anonymous
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he's mocking the other guy who asked how to run.
>> Anonymous
Belly breathing

http://www.ehow.com/how_2083973_breathe-from-belly.html

Basically, don't breath from the chest, your only getting about a 1/3 of your lungs involved, if you breathe deep from the stomach you'll get a bit more oxygen. Also, try exhaling heavily, it'll create a vacuum of sorts letting you suck in more.
>> Anonymous
Breathing
Much controversy exists about breathing patterns during exercise, largely due to a misapplication of the CYA principle. It is thought by some that "inhaling on the way down and exhaling on the way up" is a good way to eliminate the possibility of cerebrovascular accidents during exercise, by lowering the peak blood pressure during the rep. This may very well limit a momentarily elevated systolic/diastolic pressure, but such advice overrates the likelihood of a cerebrovascular injury, an all-too-common occurrence. It behooves us to understand the function of the Valsalva maneuver, the breath held against the closed glottis while pressure is applied by the abdominal and throacic muscles, during the squat. The valsalva is a technique that the vast majority of humans will use anyway until "professionally trained" personnel interfere.
>> Anonymous
If your car runs out of gas in an intersection, and you have to push it out of the way or get killed, you will open your car door, put your shoulder on the doorframe, take a great big breath, and push the car. You will probably not exhale except to take another quick breath until the car and you are out of the way. Furthermore, you will not even think about this, as many millions of years of your species pushing on heavy things has taught your central nervous system the correct way to push. "Professionally trained" personnel probably do it this way too, yet they insist on ignoring the good advice of their DNA while in the weight room.
>> Anonymous
When you inhale, pressure increases in your thoracic cavity. When you hold your breath and tighten your trunk muscles, this pressure increases more. Since your thoracic and abdominal cavities are separated by only your diaphragm, abdominal pressure increases too. Thus, pressure is applied to the anterior side of your spine. The spinal vertebrae are eing held in correct posisition by the back musculature, and this correct position is reinforced by a static pressure head transmitted to the anterior side of the spine by the hydrostatic column of the guy, the essentially noncompressible contents of the abdominal cavity. As pressure in the thoracic cavity increases with a big breath held, and this pressure is increased by the itghtening of the abs and obliques, more anterior support develops for the spine. The back muslces support the back from the back; the abs, with the aid of a big breath, support it from the front (figure 58). A weightlifting belt adds to this effect, its main function being to add to anterior support rather than to apply pressure from the back.
>> Anonymous
The concern of our "trained professionals" is that this throacic and abdominal pressure is also being applied to the cardiovascular system embedded in the trunk, and that the increase in pressure is being transmitted up the big vessles to the head, and that this increase in pressure is being transmitted up the big vessels to the head, and that this increase in pressure has the potential to cause cerebrovascular accident, such as a stroke or an aneurysm. This ignores the fact that the same pressure is being applied to the cerebrospinal fluid, which transmits pressure up through the subdural space in the skull and throughout the cranium, balancing cardiovascular pressure across the blood/brain interface (figure 59). Furthermore, no one gets under 405 lbs and squats it without training. The cardiovascular system adapts to resistance training just like all of the other tissues and systems in the body, and this adaptationi occurs as strength increases. Anyone who is capable of squatting extremely heavy weights is adapted for it in all the necessary ways. It is far more likely that the advice to "inhale on the way down and exhale on the way up" will actually cause and orthopedic injury than that it will prevent a cerebrovascular injury.
In fact, it is good advice to teach trainees to take and hold the biggest breath they can. The Valsalva maneuver will prevent far more problems than(sic) it has the potential to ever cause.
>> Anonymous
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TL;DR: ...?
>> Anonymous
This amuses me, since I posted before about how even breathing is worthy of a thread. I feel so important over the internet.

OP is probably just trolling (that or it's satire, or he is not human - prove otherwise), but even so, I still believe a lot of people would gain benefit from learning better breathing technique.
>> Anonymous
Actually your thoracic cavity has a partial vacuum, and when the act of inhaling is when the diaphragm pulls down and increases the vacuum, inflating the lungs.
>> Anonymous
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Yes the pressure decreases which causes breathing, but the point he is making is that when you fully inhale and hold it, you compress your body maximizing the internal pressure. This makes it easier to effectively strain the muscles attached to the ribcage for use in an exercise.

tl;dr
Hold your breath for squats like you would if you were pushing a car.
>> Van !!+Cz9q2JiXIs
In your nose, out your mouth
>> Anonymous
I breathe through my mouth when doing exercise. If I'm running long distances I usually end up breathing in twice, then out once. It would interest me how closely this matches my heartrate.