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1839: How to Know When Doing Less Will Build More Muscle, Ways to Combat Muscle Cramps, Using Static Stretching to Speed up Recovery & More (Listener Live Coaching)

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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Is Blood Flow Restrictive Training Helping Muscle Growth?

Body builders and strength athletes have been doing techniques like this for decades, and anecdota, they've noticed great results. In a stretch, because the muscles being stretched, you are squeezing blood out of the muscle - similar to what i said with blood flow restrictive training. Static stretching tends to induce that. And i think the benefits mainly would come from something like that. The client likes the way feels, they feel more relaxed afterwards, and that's that. Blob, look, i don't care. I notice great results from doing this. There's animal studies that show something quite a similar.

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