There’s nothing wrong or shameful about training with lighter weights, especially if you use occlusion training wraps during your workouts. As a matter of fact, research shows that even light-weight training can help develop muscles and body strength as long as it’s performed correctly. Lifting multiple weights is impressive, of course, but it doesn’t mean […]
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Advantages of Low Intensity Vascular Occlusion Training Exercises
Before the concept of vascular occlusion training surfaced, high-intensity weight training was considered synonymous with bodybuilding success. Many people believed that intense training is key for continued muscle hypertrophy. This type of weight training normally involves lifting a weight that’s not lower than 70 percent of their 1-rep maximum. There was also a belief that […]
Choosing the Right Exercises for Effective Weight Training for Bodybuilding
If you’ve been training for bodybuilding for some time now, it’s likely that you already know how important your weight training frequency is. To make sure you get results in the soonest possible time, you have to identify what your ideal frequency is, as well as what workout schedule will suit that frequency. When doing […]
Weight Training Tips to Build Muscle Size and Strength
You have been training for a while already, and you have made some good gains. However, now that you’ve almost reached the size and strength that you want, your gains stopped. And no matter how hard you try and how heavy you lift, nothing is happening. What could be wrong? Are there weight training tips […]
Get the Muscles You Have Always Dreamt of with Occlusion Training
If you’ve been going to the gym, perhaps you’ve noticed a new trend in muscle and strength building. Blood flow restriction is an increasingly popular technique that’s combined with weights exercises. The idea behind this training, which is also known as occlusion training, is that using elastic restriction bands to wrap around the limbs can […]
BFR Weight Training Program – The Edge for Injured Athletes
Blood flow restriction training is now widely considered as ‘revolutionary’ especially in the field of rehabilitation. In this type of weight training program, a surgical tourniquet, which is more like a blood pressure cuff, is applied to the injured limb so that blood flow will be partially restricted while the patient engages in body weight […]
