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Move aside booze, weed, tobacco, sugar (ugh) and the lot. God gave you everything you need for the best and healthiest high ever – as I’m on right now – in your own body.

Twas a very slow start this morning after a lot of cold beer last night. Of course, it was after a month of rigorous fasting and working out daily that I had it, so very well deserved!

My lower back was a bit stiff during my 40*4 climb.

Stretching helped but not as much as I thought it would.

Then I “got it”. Man, do I often forget my own advice! Haha.

I breathed.

The right way. NOT runaway locomotive style as you might imagine as most people do when out of breath – through the mouth. No.

I breathed “life” into my spinal erectors through the organ intended – no pun – the nose.

Viola! Within minutes, the area felt great.

Your mouth serves many purposes. Again,mind out of gutter please. But breathing in and out through it wasn’t one of the intended purposes.

Believe me, it can be very tempting to to during tough workouts, especially leg workouts. I’m guilty of this occasionally myself and have to keep reminding myself to keep the lips sealed.

People think it’s easier to exhale and inhale through the mouth when badly out of breath.

No.

It might SEEM so.

But it’s not.

It will make your workouts tougher as opposed to easier ultimately. That’s something I’ve been wondering about over the past few days, why my climb times weren’t going down – I got it today. Breathing!

When you slow down during heavy duty bodyweight workouts, often times it’s not your muscles that give out. It’s your BREATHING which makes it seems so.

Your breath is indeed your power, as I believe Paul Bragg once said. Imagine your breath as the engine that drives your Ferrari. When you feel tired, breathe deeper the right way with a vengeance while imagine that engine GUNNING!

You’ll get more reps in a trice. Again, dont so much focus on the muscles doing the work as your breathing. This might sound counter intuitive, but if you visualize it right – it really flat out WORKS – period.

Mouth breathing leads to shallow chest based breathing. Wrong way to breathe. Watch a little baby below 1 sleep and how it breathes and you’ll know what I mean. You breathe through the nose – it comes from the navel – one of the seven chakra points in our body.

THAT is how to breathe right. That is also what will lead to that broad “deep” chest so many of you crave – because this sort of breathing, as opposed to chest based breathing – enlarges the diaphragm and the supporting muscles under the chest.

Much like the muscles under the superficial six pack are what actually matter and lead to said six pack – same thing holds true for chest.

I had a great workout, and was finally amazed at how easy it felt. Hehe.

Last, but not least, when panting up a storm it can be very difficult to control the impulse to breathe through the mouth and even more so to recover while breathing through the nose.

The way to do it is the polar opposite of quick deep breaths and most people teach. In fact, it involves HOLDING the breath – which is not what you’d imagine would help when you’re out of breath but it DOES. Oh my. One of those hidden secrets very few people know about but you gotta do it right or not at all. And, a few lines in the 0 Excuses Fitness System videos tell you how to. Blink and you’ll miss it, but there it is.

Well, my friend – that’s it for now. Remember, all the pushups or any exercise for that matter in the world won’t develop you fully unless you BREATHE right while doing them …

And that’s that.

Best

Rahul Mookerjee