wide pullup reverse breathing

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Hi, couple questions...

1) Recently I was told that when doing wide lat pullups, breathing pattern should be reversed i.e breathing in when pulling up and breathing out when going down? I've been doing the reverse for as long as I can remember so I'm a bit confused ?

2) A friend of mine does pulldowns with a narrow grip but his hands are placed on a regular pulldown bar (the long one) rather then the short V-one.
It resembles doing regular wide lat pulldowns but with a very narrow grip.
He swears by it ,so I was wondering if that would be a valid exercise and if it would impact back muscles differently then the regular narrow V-pulldowns ..

thanks
 
Breathe out whilst pulling up.

I'm a huge fan of wide grip. But, it's a good thing to change things up every once and a while. Try the narrow grip and see if you notice a difference.
 
The reasoning for inhaling on going up was that the chest puffs up and it improves the curvature of the back .. that's what I was told ..

actually I just found an article about that ...
www criticalbench.com/build_back_muscle.htm

any ideas?

the second question boils down to the difference between grips on a narrow pulldown: the V-grip vs regular grip (just like regular wide pulldowns except being close grip)
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okoolo said:
The reasoning for inhaling on going up was that the chest puffs up and it improves the curvature of the back .. that's what I was told ..

actually I just found an article about that ...
www criticalbench.com/build_back_muscle.htm

any ideas?

the second question boils down to the difference between grips on a narrow pulldown: the V-grip vs regular grip (just like regular wide pulldowns except being close grip)
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There are a lot of "facts" listed there that really look like they'd have no real benefit over standard breathing.

The simple fact is that breathing out while moving against a resistance/gravity is more stable than breathing in. It has to do the the way your diaphragm and core are stabilized while exhaling.

I don't see anything listed on that site that would lead me to believe that gains caused by reverse breathing are going to be substantially different from standard breathing. I also heavily question the science behind some of the reasoning there.
 
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you can keep your chest puffed up while breathing out. just try it, it's not a problem
 
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