CampTeck U6831 D-Ring Ankle & Wrist Cuffs Neoprene Adjustable Strap for Gym Cable Machine Workouts, Glute Legs & Abdominal Exercises – Black, 1 Pair

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Fast track your muscle-building journey with these proven lifestyle, diet, and workout changes that helped me finally start building muscle as a hardgainer after years of not getting any results. With their Bluetooth enabled BFR training cuffs, their app supposedly works like a sports-medicine therapist, inflating and deflating the cuffs to the perfect level for maximum hypertrophy. You run the risk of reinjuring the muscle if you hit the gym and start doing bicep curls with your normal 30-pound weights.

That said, adding in a few sets of low-load BFR training to augment your standard high-load training can offer a different stimulus to your muscles and is possibly more effective than high-load training alone. This sort of training has been a staple in sports medicine for recuperating athletes as studies show it’s an excellent training intensity technique to allow for continued muscle growth at much lighter weights than you’d normally use.If you were to put a minute of rest in between each set, the entire exercise should still take well under 10 minutes, so there’s no need to push to that 20 minute mark. After listening to the aching in my knees after some heavy squats, I decided to work SAGA’s cuffs into my routine. My recommended pressure is 140mmHg on my arms, and that’s plenty to get a wild pump at very light weight.

Whether it's leg day or you're training for a run, you don't want to get caught with the wrong gear. With the SAGA cuffs, I’ve been able to lighten that quad extension load by over 50% (putting way less strain on my knee joints), but I’ve still gotten a crazy pump. You have the option to rename your cuffs, though I didn’t find that necessary as it’s pretty clear which cuffs are fit for your legs and which are a fit for your arms. And it’s difficult to know if you have enough inflation in your bands when you pump them up yourself. In other words, in the time I’ve been training with the BFR cuffs, I’ve used them for bicep curls, tricep extensions, and leg extensions, which all focus on one particular muscle.Bottom line: SAGA is the only wireless product on the market that allows for precise blood flow restriction (as in, you can dial in the mmHg). If you run through a set and feel that the restriction wasn’t enough, you can easily increase (or decrease) the pressure with just a few taps. The SAGA app is super simple and intuitive, which I’m grateful for—there’s enough to focus on in your workout without the need to fiddle around with your phone.

When using a device like the SAGA fitness cuffs, you’ll never run the risk of occluding your muscles too much, as they’re calibrated to your blood pressure and body.

That said, five minutes is the general recommendation, and you can absolutely get your sets in around that time-frame. We received compensation and courtesy product from SAGA Fitness in exchange for our honest review only. Now that your cuffs are inflated to a pressure that’s calibrated to either your arms or legs, it’s time to get your pump on. Pro athletes have been harnessing the science of blood flow restriction (BFR) training for years to help with injury recovery and quick muscle gain. SAGA Fitness is an Australian brand making blood flow restriction (BFR) cuffs for occlusion training.

When comparing workouts of the same volume (weight times reps), BFR is significantly more effective.And if you’re a personal trainer, having a set of these is like adding a tool to your business you can use across several clients. This is more helpful if you’re running a superset (one movement followed by a different movement as a single set). Some early studies suggest that this enduring lactic acid build up kicks your body’s growth, regeneration, and protein synthesis into gear more quickly and efficiently than standard exercise.