Blood flow restriction training allows blood to go into the muscle without letting it out meaning you get more blood in the muscle while you're training. More blood in the muscle means increased muscle growth, endurance and strength it can also boost your growth hormone levels! CAN BE USED FOR BICEPS, TRICEPS, SHOULDERS, FOREARMS AND CALVES. Other benefits of occlusion training include. Lactate Accumulation: When the blood flow is restricted lactate accumulates, increasing metabolic demand and stimulating many physiological responses (as well as making you feel like you're constantly in the middle of an anaerobic training session!). Increased Muscle Fatigue: With the reduced oxygen supply to the muscles we can't recruit as many Type 1 (slow twitch muscle fibres) as they rely on oxygen to contract. As a result, we get earlier activation of the Type 2 (fast twitch muscle fibres) that are anaerobically driven. These fibres produce high forces and display hypertrophy. Increasing strength and size. Growth Hormone: Growth hormone is stimulated to levels far beyond that of regular exercise, with studies showing 200-300% increases in the involved muscles with occlusion training. Protein Synthesis: Blood flow restriction during exercise has been shown to result in over 50% more muscle protein synthesis than a traditional exercise-training program. Myostatin and Grown Hormone: When we exercise some genes (e.g. myostatin) are expressed that regulate overgrowth of muscles, and so can be inhibitory to hypertrophy. Hypertrophy: has huge potential benefit with rehabilitation, as typically we have to perform exercise with much lighter loads when injured. This benefit is particularly relevant for post-operative patients, for whom minimising muscle wastage (atrophy) is a priority.
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