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When lifting weights we're supposed to breathe out. Why?

Same applies to yoga - we exhale. I can feel how it works. It makes me relax into the pose and stretch more deeply.

But with weights my instinctive desire is to breathe in, to draw in more energy- so why is it wrong?

Posted - July 20, 2016

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