Recently, I wrote a column about using the pre-exhaustion method during resistance training and was surprised by the high response. The advantage is being able to tax the muscle sufficiently to ...

Blood flow restriction training—once a niche rehabilitation method used primarily by physical therapists—has quietly transformed into one of fitness’s most intriguing innovations. This technique uses ...

The prevailing wisdom is that if you intend to add muscle mass and get stronger, you need to overload the muscles, challenging them with heavyweights. Let's look at what happens to your body during a ...

In 1973, Sir Yoshiaki Sato, MD, PhD, developed the KAATSU ("training with added pressure") training method in Japan, which is now commonly known as blood flow restriction (BFR) training or occlusion ...

She says she's also found it particularly useful at certain points of her menstrual cycle. 'There are days where you just don’t feel strong. BFR helps me get a good pump without the fatigue or ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As with other knee injuries, how you rehab from a torn ACL is critical to the overall success of the surgery to fix it. Hundreds of thousands of ACL repair surgeries are done ...

FROM THE GYMS of pro bodybuilders to the training room of Olympic marathoner Galen Rupp to Mark Wahlberg’s 4 a.m. Club, there's one unique training tool in common. Maybe you've seen people wrap their ...

Blood flow restriction tourniquets — those arm and leg bands that look a little like narrow blood pressure cuffs — made a splash at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Some top performing track athletes and ...

Chris Hemsworth's ripped arms were iconic in his role as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Hemsworth says he achieved these results by using blood-flow restriction in his arms. This technique can ...

Every Women’s Health article is characterised by an undercurrent of ‘train smarter, not harder’. It’s not practical to spend 60+ minutes in the gym a day, and science shows this isn’t always the route ...