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AlexCoventry on March 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Breathing and Exercise: Strength Training for Your...

It's unhealthy but anatomically possible to breathe while your abdomen is pulled in. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319924

Try it. You end up breathing using your rib cage instead of your diaphragm.

sah2ed on March 23, 2020 [–]

That unhealthy form of breathing is called vertical breathing. The correct form is horizontal breathing [0] helpfully shared elsewhere in this thread.

0: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-breathe/

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