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If you lift heavy weights and then wrap your legs tightly after, it doesn’t make your thigh muscles grow bigger than just lifting heavy weights without the tight wraps.
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Postexercise blood flow restriction does not enhance muscle hypertrophy induced by multiple‐set high‐load resistance exercise
Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2018 MayThe study gave men leg workouts with and without squeezing the thigh after exercise, and found that squeezing didn’t make the muscles grow any bigger than just doing the workouts alone.
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