THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF RESISTANCE AND AEROBIC TRAINING WITH BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION
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Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) training is a novel training method using low-intensity exercise that can stimulate physiological adaptation comparable to high-intensity exercise. It can be performed with resistance or aerobic exercise. Generally, BFR training applies a tourniquet or inflatable cuffs strap on proximal portion of upper and lower limbs during exercise, resulting in blood pooling to working and distal muscle to the cuff. The cuff commonly used pneumatic tourniquet system. BFR results in reduced arterial blood flow to working muscle and venous return to cardiac. Vascular occlusion leads to a reduction in oxygen delivery to muscle tissue and metabolic byproduct clearance. This inadequate oxygen in muscular tissue promotes the intramuscular hypoxic environment and higher metabolic stress that brings about the up-regulation of physiological responses similar to higher-intensity exercise. Furthermore, the greater accumulation of metabolites can improve muscular size and strength and improved aerobic and anaerobic capacity. The advantage of BFR training is reducing load of exercise that can benefit to whom high loads may be contraindicated.
Therefore, this review aims are 1) to outline the principles of BFR equipment and cuff pressure, 2) to summarize the principles of BFR with resistance training, and 3) to summarize the principles of BFR with aerobic training. A clear understanding of the BFR training in term of principles and applications would help practitioners optimize the benefit of this technique when combined with a resistance and aerobic exercise.
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