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Resistance Exercise with Blood Flow Restriction: A Novel Training Technique to Maximize Strength and Hypertrophy: A Brief Review
Kan Akışı Kısıtlamalı Direnç Egzersizi: Kuvvet ve Hipertrofiyi En Üst Düzeye Çıkarmak İçin Yeni Bir Antrenman Tekniği: Kısa Derleme
Okan KAMİŞa, Latif AYDOSb
aDepartment of Physical Education and Sports, Gazi University Institute of Health Sciences, Ankara, Türkiye
bDepartment of Physical Education and Sports, Gazi University Faculty of Sports Sciences, Ankara, Türkiye
Turkiye Klinikleri J Sports Sci. 2022;14(2):215-20
doi: 10.5336/sportsci.2021-87379
Article Language: EN
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ABSTRACT
 Low-load resistance exercise with blood flow restriction has been known to stimulate muscle development that is comparable to conventional High-load Resistance Exercise. Resistance exercise with blood flow restriction is a pretty new training technique that can be an option to High-load Resistance Exercise for increasing muscle mass and strength not only in athletes but also in healthy people and elderly people, or rehabilitation for injured athletes with load restrictions. This brief review study aims to summarize the existing literature concerning the basic principles of resistance exercise with blood flow restriction and to provide a brief description of blood flow restriction training to maximize strength and hypertrophy. Blood flow restriction training can be performed when High-load Resistance Exercise is not tolerated because of pain or other contraindications such as absolute weight-bearing restrictions, for instance after surgical procedures to regain strength and muscle mass. High-load Resistance Exercise is associated with high mechanical tension, however in some cases, this is not warranted. In these cases, resistance exercise with blood flow restriction seems to be a better option. Consequently, blood flow restriction training should not replace High-load Resistance Exercise for the general public or uninjured athletes, but blood flow restriction training can be used as an alternating training tool or in situations where High-load Resistance Exercise is inadvisable.

Keywords: Blood flow restriction; hypertrophy; resistance training; Kaatsu; occlusion
ÖZET
 Kan akışı kısıtlama ile birlikte kombine olarak yapılan düşük yüklü direnç egzersizlerinin, geleneksel yüksek yüklü direnç egzersizleri ile karşılaştırılabilir kas büyümesi sağladığı gösterilmiştir. Kan akışı kısıtlama antrenmanı, sadece sporcularda değil, aynı zamanda sağlıklı insanlarda, yaşlı erişkinlerde veya yüksek yüklü antrenmanlara bağlı yaralanma sorunları olan sporcularda kas boyutunu ve kuvvetini geliştirmek için yüksek yüklü direnç antrenmanına alternatif olabilecek oldukça yeni bir antrenman tekniğidir. Bu kısa derleme çalışması, kan akışı kısıtlama antrenmanının temel ilkeleri ile ilgili mevcut literatürü özetlemeyi ve kuvvet ve hipertrofiyi en üst düzeye çıkarmak için kan akışı kısıtlama antrenmanının kısa bir tanımını sağlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Kan akışı kısıtlama antrenmanı, yüksek yüklü direnç antrenmanlarının tolere edilemediği durumlarda, kuvvet ve hipertrofi kazandırmak amacıyla yapılabilir. Kan akışı kısıtlama antrenmanı, ağrı veya ağırlık kaldıramama kısıtlamaları gibi diğer kontraendikasyonlar nedeniyle yüksek yüklü direnç egzersizleri tolere edilmediğinde, örneğin kuvvet ve kas kütlesini yeniden kazanmak için cerrahi prosedürlerden sonra yapılabilir. Yüksek yüklü direnç egzersizleri yüksek mekanik gerilim ile ilişkilidir, ancak bazı durumlarda yüksek yükü tolere etmek mümkün olmayabilir, bu gibi durumlarda kan akışı kısıtlamalı direnç egzersizi iyi bir seçenek olarak görülebilir. Sonuç olarak, kan akışı kısıtlama antrenman metodu, genel popülasyon ve sakatlık geçirmemiş sporcular için yüksek yüklü direnç egzersizlerinin yerini almamalıdır, ancak kan akışı kısıtlama antrenmanı, alternatif bir antrenman aracı olarak veya yüksek yüklü direnç egzersizlerinin tavsiye edilmediği durumlarda kullanılabilir.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Kan akışı kısıtlama; hipertrofi; direnç antrenmanı; Kaatsu; oklüzyon
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www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot reach to user’s identity, address, service providers or other information. The users may send this information to the website through forms if they would like to. However, www.turkiyeklinikleri.com may collect your hardware and software information. The information consists of your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time, and related websites. www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot sell the provided user information (your name, e-mail address, home and work address, phone number) to the third parties, publish it publicly, or keep it in the website. Gathered information has a directing feature to be a source for the website’s visitor profile, reporting and promotion of the services.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com uses the taken information:

-To enhance, improve and maintain the quality of the website

-To generate visitor’s profile and statistical data

-To determine the tendency of the visitors on using our website

-To send print publications/correspondences

-To send press releases or notifications through e-mail

-To generate a list for an event or competition

By using www.turkiyeklinikleri.com you are considered to agree that;

-Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. cannot be hold responsible for any user’s illegal and immoral behavior,

-Terms of use may change from time to time,

-It is not responsible for other websites’ contents it cannot control or the harms they may cause although it uses the connection they provided.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. may block the website to users in the following events:

-Information with wrong, incomplete, deceiving or immoral expressions is recorded to the website,

-Proclamation, advertisement, announcement, libelous expressions are used against natural person or legal identity,

-During various attacks to the website,

-Disruption of the website because of a virus.

Written, visual and audible materials of the website, including the code and the software are under protection by legal legislation.

Without the written consent of Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. the information on the website cannot be downloaded, changed, reproduced, copied, republished, posted or distributed.

All rights of the software and the design of the website belong to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc.

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