You don't have to hold your breath. You can release your breath in a controlled way. Hold the tongue against the glottis and exhale slowly. Or, you can hold your breath until your past your sticking point and then do a controlled release. The valsalva maneuver is about abdominal bracing and it not just the act of holding your breath and it is not necessary to hold your breath the whole way up.

You don't really need it at all during the lighter stuff. Just bracing the midsection and doing what comes naturally should be fine. Continually holding your breath during high rep maneuvers and high volume and COMPLETELY disagree with.

Holding your breath while attemting a 1RM is one thing. Holding your breath all the time I think is a little silly.

So to summarize: Immediately before you push or pull take a deep breath into the addomin then tense your midsection. As your start the lift it is fine to let air excape. But it escapes under pressure. Once you've passed the sticking point, you can exhale fully if you want. I will usually inhale as I lower again.

I think this may be called the partial valsalva or something...

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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.