Grunt! During Exercise

[Couloir]

I can't wait to hear the fresh, delicate song of folks grunting during exercise high up in the mountains. How sweet.

[builder206]

My weightlifting coach teaches that, because you need to 'block' or do the Valsalva maneuver when lifting heavy, a grunt represents a release of pressure. This reduces the rigidity or strength of the block, weakening the lift and removing some of the core support the maneuver gives you.

 

I doubt that that applies to grunting during a hard move on rock, though, because the core rigidity the Valslava gives you would restrict the ability to move on rock.

[No. 13 Baby]

Monica Seles was a prodigious grunter. Evidently this tendency even permeated her tennis game .

[billcoe]

I grunt every morning - it works my core.

[joblo7]

women's tennis grunting sucks big time.