Breathing and Bracing for Bigger Squats and Deadlifts

Drills and techniques for more effective bracing for powerlifting. Proper positioning and breathing techniques to stabilize the truck and lift more weight.
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[@Johnsoncrna]

Thank you, this was very helpful to break down the brace into its individual components!

[@JustinHSV17]

Thanks. Excellent video

[@eggchg2680]

Love your video . Hope you keep updating !

[@ghettokilluh]

Your channel is gold!!

[@Not2Be0utDone]

This video is pretty dense with information, had to pause & rewatch several times. Thank you so much for the upload, your insight is very much appreciated.

[@whatigame]

Repetition is the mother of skill

[@adam702702]

Thank you

[@kgg7409]

Nice!

[@codysiverly6010]

That’s exactly what’s happening! On the soft touch I’m just below nipple line. With the new sink it feels really good at my top ab area. I’ve always had a decent arch and trying this sink I’ve been messing around with being more flat to help get more drive from my legs and it’s not helping much lol you recommend keeping a higher arch and then let sink a bit?

[@codysiverly6010]

Hey can you do a video on breathing during the bench for both styles (sinking) and (soft touch). I recently switched to sinking and found breathing into the gut and tightening my abs makes it a lot easier to sink. And the other side of the coin with the soft touch I’ve noticed better stability with breathing into the chest and then tightening. I’d like to get your thoughts on this big time

[@puntamex]

Very good info. Thanks for that. Question. Are you suggesting to contract your abs down and then take a full breath of air into your belly, or take a full breath of air into your belly and then push your transverse abdominis out to further pressurize the belly? Thank you in advance. Cheers.

[@harrison1496]

Full breath of air then contract the abs

[@steeping]

@@harrison1496 he actually says the opposite. there are two schools of thought: brace then breath into it, or big breath and then brace.

[@josy9767]

Why all this progressive drills ? It’s only to Teach beginners how to brace and breath into ? Curious because my old Trainer (66) teached me that Directly on the squat