Occlusion Training

Blood flow restriction training, or BFR, is basically when you trick your body into thinking it’s operating on a higher intensity than it actually is.

Using some type of tourniquet to occlude or close up a limb, you limit the amount of oxygenated blood reaching a working muscle. Fast twitch muscle fibers, responsible for speed, power, and strength, are activated. Lactate pools in the occluded working muscle and increases your body’s protein synthesis.