Blood flow restriction training enhances endurance performance 🩸
Turn your rest periods into improvement opportunities.
Blood Flow Restriction during Rest Periods of High-Intensity Interval Training Enhances Endurance Performance: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study
Study Details
This new study recruited 40 male participants who were pair matched and assigned to either…
🩸 Blood flow restriction (BFR) of the upper thighs
😮💨 A sham hypoxia condition
Interventions were completed during rest periods of three sets of 8 × 30 s cycling at 90%-105% maximal aerobic power 🚴♂️
Participants completed 9 of these sessions over a 3-week period 🗓️
Key Findings
Most training variables were similar between groups including…
📈 Power output
🫀 Heart rate
🧠 Perceived effort
⚡️ Pain
However, BFR led to significantly greater gains in…
🫁 Maximal aerobic power
⏰ Time to exhaustion
💥 Mean power output
⏱️ Quicker time to complete a 20-km time trial
Conclusion
Blood flow restriction during rest periods of high-intensity interval training may enhance aspects of endurance performance ✅
Reference
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40792614/
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