Breath in, breath out
You know what's important to a weightlifter. Breathing. Oh, sure, it's important to everyone else to, but I have a stupid story, hehe.
For the two months since I've returned to lifting, I was trying to take sets in a measured way. In case you don't know, when lifting, on the down stroke you inhale and on the up stroke, the harder one where you're fighting gravity, you exhale. I was going pretty slow which meant I was breathing slow, albeit deeply.
But you know what the human body runs on? Air. You breath slowly while lifting weights and you starve yourself for oxygen. If you lift fast, you breath faster, meaning you get more air. Thus, you can lift more easily, and more weight.
Why was I going slow? Form. Particularly for exercises you do when standing up, it's easy to get swing into whatever you're doing. Go slower and you can more easily control the form. It's actually a good idea to go slow, too, because it works the muscles in a different way, but I should have been aware what I was doing. It's amazing the things you forget.
For the two months since I've returned to lifting, I was trying to take sets in a measured way. In case you don't know, when lifting, on the down stroke you inhale and on the up stroke, the harder one where you're fighting gravity, you exhale. I was going pretty slow which meant I was breathing slow, albeit deeply.
But you know what the human body runs on? Air. You breath slowly while lifting weights and you starve yourself for oxygen. If you lift fast, you breath faster, meaning you get more air. Thus, you can lift more easily, and more weight.
Why was I going slow? Form. Particularly for exercises you do when standing up, it's easy to get swing into whatever you're doing. Go slower and you can more easily control the form. It's actually a good idea to go slow, too, because it works the muscles in a different way, but I should have been aware what I was doing. It's amazing the things you forget.