Comments on: Occlusion, Ischemia, and ‘The Pump’

By: brendan

brendan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:47:10 +0000

not to quibble, but the strength gains reported in all the studies of kaatsu (and there are several now) show just as impressive a pattern of increase as does size. biopsies show the fiber growth is almost entirely fast twitch.
it seems hard to acknowledge, but the size gains seem to track strength gains almost one for one.
this doesn’t get over the difficulties of applying kaatsu to the trunk, but there are ways to impeded blood flow (which is what ischemia means) and you have touched on some of them/
just mixing in really tough, extended isometrics into a regular training set can do this. your other suggestions, also.

By: FitJerks Fitness Blog

FitJerks Fitness Blog — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:41:30 +0000

Time to tape up my entire body and bench press the bar so I can have massively muscular man tits. Fuck yes! ;)

This is a good write up. Those who’ve done slow tempo training and seen some sexy results can now know exactly why.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:26:58 +0000

I’ve read about this before. And, well, the statistically significant results don’t strike me as all that clinically significant. That is, the growth produced from this kind of training isn’t so much greater than just training like we’ve known to. So, why would I want to go through the effort to tie up my arm or legs and go for the pump (and I’m not saying that you’re saying to do that)?

I think going toward the bigger picture, like you said, and integrating it conceptually into your training is the better route, rather than literally trying to replicate this exercise technique.

By: Matt Perryman

Matt Perryman — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:18:55 +0000

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I’m not going to respond to that, because it won’t be a nice arrangement of words.

By: Anatoly

Anatoly — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:33:03 +0000

So what is a point in using those methods by power lifters? If it is non-functional mass.