Breathing Squats

[gjohnson5]

I was starting to think that my 20 lb wight loss was affecting my strength. I took some Vince Gironda advice and did breathing squats before my workout and my strength was suddenly back

http://www.trulyhuge.com/vincegironda.htm

Just follow the advice on the page. I did 225lb ATF squats with the technique mentioned here:

 

[OMEGA]

Good Stuff thanks G-5

I love these technique which make the most out of great exercises

 

[silver_shadow]

try a bit of warm up and then hit a set of 20 reps with as much weight as needed so that by rep 12 or so you'll be breathing heavily. take as much time as possible between each rep... trust me you won't overdo it!

 

[H_T_]

Gironda is the dude. i got a bunch of stuff i still used from him.

 

[Nathan]

Good post - I might try this. I take it this should work with other bodyparts as well.

 

[gjohnson5]

My problem is that I never had real formal teaching in weight lifting. Just did what the guys in the gym said do... for about 20 years. After reading stuff like Vince Gironda's information , i'm starting to realize how misinformed I was

 

[TomoUK]

O lifters at our club use the breathing squats technique when wanting to go up a weight class - slightly different tho we do 6 sets of 10 (with the weight for a hard set of 5) and do pullovers between each rep. Its not fun! but it does seem to be effective!

 

[silver_shadow]

O lifters at our club use the breathing squats technique when wanting to go up a weight class - slightly different tho we do 6 sets of 10 (with the weight for a hard set of 5) and do pullovers between each rep. Its not fun! but it does seem to be effective!

don't you mean pullovers between sets...

yea, breathing squats are awesome.

@ nathan: i'm not so sure it could be used for other body parts. maybe for bench and/or BB rows i don't know.

 

[TomoUK]

don't you mean pullovers between sets...

yea, breathing squats are awesome.

@ nathan: i'm not so sure it could be used for other body parts. maybe for bench and/or BB rows i don't know.

haha yes i mean between each set

the author of super squats, cant remember his name, mentions using the technique for sldl's as well but just 3 sets of 10 or 12 for bench, rows etc (if hypertrophy is the primary goal)

 

[gjohnson5]

I didn't know what you meant either and was going to ask you post a video.
LOL

haha yes i mean between each set

the author of super squats, cant remember his name, mentions using the technique for sldl's as well but just 3 sets of 10 or 12 for bench, rows etc (if hypertrophy is the primary goal)

 

[Nathan]

why ongod's green earth can't you apply the technique to other bodyparts? It seems like a good warm-up that could be useful at the beginning of every workout.

Plus, the bi and tri training routine are structured rather differently and I wouldn't have expected that if this technique can't be applied to other areas. I'm lost as to why this works then.

 

[gjohnson5]

I've read that's exactly what people do.

It appears breathing squats have evolved into many other things since Gironda's days

why ongod's green earth can't you apply the technique to other bodyparts? It seems like a good warm-up that could be useful at the beginning of every workout.

Plus, the bi and tri training routine are structured rather differently and I wouldn't have expected that if this technique can't be applied to other areas. I'm lost as to why this works then.

 

[Nathan]

I've read that's exactly what people do.

It appears breathing squats have evolved into many other things since Gironda's days

Good to hear cause otherwise my guess is that somebody is seriously pulling people's chain about it only working for bi's and tri's. That makes zero sense to me.

 

[stevius]

You definitely want to try breathing box squats. To make things even more random get your training partner to roll three six sided dice during your set. The number that comes up is how many reps you have to do!

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

I did a set today before bench. It stoked me up good and got me ready for a nice set! I always loved squatting before bench, made me feel stronger. I moved squat to pull day and started missing that. Now I can bust out 20 light breathing reps and get the same effect. Never thought of that before, thanks for the link!

 

[silver_shadow]

why ongod's green earth can't you apply the technique to other bodyparts? It seems like a good warm-up that could be useful at the beginning of every workout.

Plus, the bi and tri training routine are structured rather differently and I wouldn't have expected that if this technique can't be applied to other areas. I'm lost as to why this works then.

oh are you refering to the gironda link? i hadn't gone through that. what i was refering to was the 20 repper (from shadow's old school routine).