ArticleFrontiers in physiology2020
The Acute Physiological Responses to Traditional vs. Practical Blood Flow Restriction Resistance Exercise in Untrained Men and Women.
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- Effects of blood flow restriction-augmented baduanjin training on quadriceps strength and postural stability in sedentary young men: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Low-load Resistance Exercise with Perceptually Primed Practical Blood Flow Restriction Induces Similar Motor Performance Fatigue, Physiological Changes, and Perceptual Responses Compared to Traditional Blood Flow Restriction in Males and Females.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2024Trial
- Comparison of finger flexor resistance training, with and without blood flow restriction, on perceptional and physiological responses in advanced climbers.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Venous Oxygenation Measurements in the Upper Arm: Reproducibility and Sensitivity to a Physical Challenge.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2026Article
- Time course and regional heterogeneity of hamstring muscle thickness after maximal concentric exercise in men and women.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Limb composition: implications for the determination of arterial occlusion pressure.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Effects of Superimposed Blood Flow Restriction on Isokinetic Knee Extension.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Effects of different induction methods and post-activation potentiation on lower limb muscle activation and explosive power.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Muscle activity and hypoalgesia in blood flow restricted versus unrestricted effort-matched resistance exercise in healthy adults.Physiological reports · 2024Article
- Practical Blood Flow Restriction Training: New Methodological Directions for Practice and Research.Sports medicine - open · 2022Article
- Unilateral, bilateral, and alternating muscle actions elicit similar muscular responses during low load blood flow restriction exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Article
- Perceived Barriers to Blood Flow Restriction Training.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2021Review
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Abstract
This study compared the acute physiological responses of traditional and practical blood flow restriction resistance exercise (tBFR and pBFR, respectively) and high- and low-load resistance exercise without BFR (HL and LL, respectively), as well as the potential sex differences within the aforementioned exercise methods. Fourteen men and fifteen women randomly completed the following experimental conditions: (1) tBFR, consisting of four sets of 30-15-15-15 repetitions of the bilateral horizontal leg press and knee extension exercises, at 30% of one-repetition maximum (1-RM), with a 13.5 cm wide pneumatic cuff placed at the most proximal portion of each thigh and inflated to a pressure equivalent to 50% of the participant's total occlusion pressure; (2) pBFR, which was the same as the tBFR condition, except that an elastic band wrapped around the proximal portion of each thigh at a tightness of 7 on a 0 to 10 perceived pressure scale was used to reduce blood flow; (3) LL, same as the tBFR and pBFR protocols, except that no BFR was applied; and (4) HL, consisting of 3 sets of 10 repetitions at 80% of 1-RM, with the same 1-min rest interval between sets and a 3-min rest period between exercises. At baseline, immediately post-, 5 min post-, and 15 min post-exercise, whole-blood lactate (WBL), indices of muscle swelling (muscle thickness and thigh circumference), hematocrit and plasma volume changes, were measured as well as superficial electromyography (sEMG) amplitude during exercise. There were no significant (
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