I've never paid attention to my breathing when doing pullups. I figure my body knows how to breathe when I'm doing them. I try not to hold my breath doing anything because that has caused me problems in the past. But I don't concentrate and "strive unnaturually" to control those things that are largely automatic. To me that only diverts you mind to things it shouldn't need to be concerned with when in fact it should be centered and not "thinking" about anything. In other words I think you may be psyching yourself out.

I have noticed you saying you are doing "dead hang" pullups. I don't know what that means exactly but it sounds like just another distraction to me. Basically I don't stop at the bottom to breathe but I also don't purposely hold my breath. I just do it.

If I start rocking I control it through body control. But I don't artificially try to control it before it happens. I mean we're not talking about squats here.

Another question is since you say PULLUPS I take it your have palms facing away. If, on the last set, once you don't think you can do another, you switch to a chinup grip (palms facing you) your can probably pull out 2 or 3 more. Those few extra reps can make a big difference.

The thing about pullups is you really have to put in that extra effort at the end. There is a lot of biceps in there as well. You know, with rows, it's all about scapular retraction, so if you can develop that, then the bi's will have very little to do with it. But you can't really do a pullup by JUST retracting the scapula or the lats. It's kind of like bench, different muscles do more of less work through different phases of it. As a matter of fact I've found that extra bicep work, if overdone, will shut down my pullups. Whereas just doing pullups/chinups will send my bicep curl strength through the roof.

I don't know if any of this helps. Pullups for me, has always been something I could just do well. So my insights may not be as valuable as someone who has struggled with them and brought them up regardless.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.