Coming from experience. I almost fainted after training my legs. Turned out my breathing technique is shit when I was doing heavy reps. I was so focused on my form and the heavy ass weight on me, I forgot to breathe.

Another incident of feeling like shit is my meal was too near my workout. Even after spacing the meal 1 hour ++ away from workout, it's still not enough.

I'd space my meal around 2 hours before.

Proper technique is to suck in big breath of air before going down for each rep. Exhale on the way up. When the weight was on me, I tend to forget.

you'll know when you're squatting BW 1x or 1.5x.

But you need to breathe properly to be honest. You might black out, and when you have heavy weights on your back, blacking out will not be pretty.

And you'll lose tightness to your core when you exhale. There's a difference.

This post has been edited by GameFr3ak: Jan 13 2015, 03:20 PM