If you do heavy weight training for eight weeks, your thigh muscles get stronger—no matter if you use a special band to restrict blood flow after your workout or not.

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Postexercise blood flow restriction does not enhance muscle hypertrophy induced by multiple‐set high‐load resistance exercise

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2018 May

The study had men do leg exercises for eight weeks, with one leg getting extra tight bandaging after workouts and the other not. Both legs got stronger the same amount, so the bandaging didn’t help — meaning the exercises alone were enough to build strength.

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Postexercise blood flow restriction does not enhance muscle hypertrophy induced by multiple‐set high‐load resistance exercise

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DOI: 10.1111/cpf.12421

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