Out of breath during squats

marko916 · 07-03-2009, 03:00 PM

I squatted for the first time this morning in 3 months and after i was finished after each set I was breathing pretty heavily, heart racing, and for the first minute after it was hard to regain my breath. I just came off a knee injury, but my knee wasnt really bothering me, but i was definately gassed. My cardivascular conditioning is pretty good and i made sure to warm-up doing some jump rope for 10 minutes and stretching before. What could this be?

kevin128 · 07-03-2009, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by marko916

I squatted for the first time this morning in 3 months and after i was finished after each set I was breathing pretty heavily, heart racing, and for the first minute after it was hard to regain my breath. I just came off a knee injury, but my knee wasnt really bothering me, but i was definately gassed. My cardivascular conditioning is pretty good and i made sure to warm-up doing some jump rope for 10 minutes and stretching before. What could this be?

i run a mile in a half around 10:30 (not super great, but good) and i feel more out of breath after every set of squats, then i do if i ran. i just get my breath back faster after squats. but for about 20-30 seconds its brutal. my friend is the same way.

Mad_Dog_Divine · 07-03-2009, 04:05 PM

Yeah thats pretty much the way squats work. I tend to take big deep breaths between sets even if I'm not out of breath yet because I know I will be soon. Even when I'm doing sets of 5 I tend to need to breathe deep for the 5th rep.

RoccoTanno123 · 07-03-2009, 04:26 PM

That's pretty much how it goes usually. If it is fairly out of the ordinary for you though, my best guess is that your anaerobic conditioning has fallen behind a bit, even if your aerobic system is still strong. Try some high intensity intervals , sprints, or tabatas that ought to help.

Thewhite9t · 07-03-2009, 04:51 PM

I do my squats rest-pause style to near failure. After I'm done with the third mini-set I think I'm going to die. I was near throwing up the whole rest of my workout this morning. It sucked.

DuLac · 07-03-2009, 05:32 PM

I don't move a lot of weight (185x10 x3) but after my sets I am usually panting like a dog, heart feels like it is around 175bpm and I start sweating like I just sprinted up a mountain.

No barfing yet, but yeah... squats hit me pretty hard.

FutureFoe · 07-03-2009, 06:44 PM

This just in...squats are hard!

Nodeal · 07-03-2009, 07:04 PM

[QUOTE=marko916;352275311]I squatted for the first time this morning in 3 months and after i was finished after each set I was breathing pretty heavily, heart racing, and for the first minute after it was hard to regain my breath.

Great feeling,isn't it?