Barbell Cycling
You Are Not Breathing Right on Heavy Touch and Go Reps
The fault
Holding one breath through multiple heavy reps, or breathing at the wrong point in the set.
Why it happens
On multiple heavy reps the brace has to be rebuilt every rep. Lifters who take one breath at the start are running on an empty tank by rep three and their position goes with it.
The fix
Take a deep breath and push it down into the abdomen before the set. At the top of each rep, top off the air and reset before going again.
About this fix
Originally published as "Breathing for Max Effort Reps" on 8 November 2015, part of The Lifting Fix, a free weekly weightlifting technique series Danny Lehr ran from June 2015 to December 2016. Every episode is free here and always will be. For the full structured course, see the professionally filmed program.