Ask the doctors: Fainting while doing chin-ups?
You may not be breathing during your chin-ups, and straining raises the pressure in your chest and prevents blood from returning to the heart. This causes your heart's output to drop (little blood in, little blood out) and your blood pressure to fall. The solution is to remember to breathe in and out as you do your chin-ups.
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