Blood flow restricted training (BFR)

[vracula]

Also known as Katsu or occlusion training

http://www.biolayne.com/training/blood- ... -exercise/

http://www.kylehuntfitness.com/blood-fl ... -loenneke/

http://www.exercisebiology.com/index.ph ... .2154.aspx

CONCLUSION: Five days (7 sessions) of low-resistance training using BFR led to marked muscle fiber hypertrophy (+37 to +48%) that was accompanied by highly upregulated satellite cell activation and myonuclei addition. Further, Pax7+ satellite cell number was positively related to myofiber size pre and post training. Thus the accelerated hypertrophy response with BFR at least in part seems to rely on an amplified myogenic satellite cell activation and myonuclei addition.

Layne norton doing his thang

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=CpKn8Hav ... pKn8Hav5eM

Awesome PDF for those who might wanna give it a shot

http://www.abcbodybuilding.com/ABCocclusionpaper.pdf

I am tempted to incorporate this in my calf training.

Thoughts gents?

[maccaz]

buzzy, whether it works or not bit of a hassle wrapping etc for each bodypart, also seems a bit hit or miss on how tight you need the wrap to be to block the return bloodflow but allow the blood going in.. "7 out of 10" by feel is a pretty rough guess lol

[vracula]

buzzy, whether it works or not bit of a hassle wrapping etc for each bodypart, also seems a bit hit or miss on how tight you need the wrap to be to block the return bloodflow but allow the blood going in.. "7 out of 10" by feel is a pretty rough guess lol

Apparently 70%tight.so enough to sit around with but tight enough for restriction?The premise really is not to block incoming blood but rather slow down or block outgoing blood supply .

I think there is a bit more finesse then just randomly tying yr muscles though.

[jimmybro1]

Interesting concept!

I kind of do this with forearm training by wrapping wrists and elbow the pump and burning sensation is incredible not to mention the vascularity !

[drizzt]

I looked into this a while back when I got a lot of Tibialis Anterior pain from knee wrapping during squats. The TA swelled to the point I got a couple of minor stretch marks, but the pain was really, really intense. Made it difficult to walk (my TP at the time - Muay Tyler - can vouch for this).

My Doc said this Occlusion probably played a part, but the pain was related to foot arch weakness apparently (I'm pretty badly flat-footed). Eventually, some additional work on strengthening my arches made the pain disappear, and I haven't really wrapped consistently enough since then to find any further "growing" in the area.

Interesting concept though, and my inadvertent brush with it confirms to me that there is probably something to it. I would be keen to see what happens if someone follows through with it :nod:

[nate225]

Ooops bad humour couldn't resist....

But anyways sounds interesting but could be a real hassle in practical terms?

Lets see someone here try it for a period and give us some feedback - might look like a freak tho so maybe schedule training at a 24/7 gym at 11.30pm :pfft: :grin:

[tii]

Heaps of pubmed summaries showing how awesome it is for muscle size increase.

Was going to give it a crack for arms, but calves is a mean idea.