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Blood Flow Restriction Training? (WHAT it is and WHY use it)

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How Does Beafar Work?

B f r training can be a game changer for an athlete looking to maintain strength when they cannot lift heavy due to injury. The tightly fitting cuffs essentially trap blood within the arms or legs and create this really low oxygen called a hypaxic environment. Fatigue in your arms and legs then tricks your brain into thinking you're lifting really heavy weight when you're not. And it causes your body to start recruiting more and more a high intensity, what we call fast twitch, type to muscle fibres. This pump sensation is the feeling of fluids shifting into the muscle cells - cellular swelling. Human growth hormon levels then start beginning to rise. Lactic acid starts to build up,.

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