breathing

Hello,

Im curious to know if there is a breathing technique during the arch body hold. I try to breath through my chest, but my stomach still goes up and down during the hold.

Your stomach should expand and contract some while you do the exercise.

 

This thread explains how we aught to hold our core muscle group while we do most of if not all of our GST exercises.

Do ensure that you do keep breathing throughout

basically breath-in just before the part you're feeling harder. this is a similar concept I'm using with weightlifting, just before the descent portion of the squat you need to breath and stop the air in your body, this by reflex activated the thoracic muscles to increase the spine stabilization. it is a good way to use something useful to increase passively the spine involvement without specific contraction.