Scott, it is sort of a combination of restriction and augmentation since it causes blood to pool and gets muscles pumped.
I have been using it mostly for arms to accelerate healing of connective tissue and now I’m combining it with ARC training. Dt. Tyler Nelson is the main advocate of BFR for climbing.
My open thoughts/questions are as follows: 1) since BFR increases growth hormones could a moderate amount be used with near net zero additional chronic training stress (for qerobic training since clearly contributes to anaerobic load).
2) It seems some component of overtraining is tied to the volume of neural signals for the muscles to contract. So if BFR requires even lower ‘neural load’ than zone 1 training, would that imply low contribution to chronic training stress?
3) Finally, since BFR builds/maintains strength at low intensity, could that enable more time base training and shorter amount of high intensity time needed to peak? In particular, it seems aerobically deficient people that need to focus on just base for a long time might be less slow.
