Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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"The Use of Occlusion Training to Produce Muscle Hypertrophy"-Strength & Conditioning Journal June '09
you tie a giant rubber band around your leg & do leg extensions.
page 81- "patients who are injured, specifically ACL injuries, have been shown to benefit from an occlusive stimulus".
page 82- "even recommended for astronauts!"
A. The S&C Journal is running out of things to write about.
B. These guys pulled off a great practical joke.
C. Like many orthopedic surgeons I have worked with, their's are also hell bent on quad hypertrophy and, well, it's the end of the school year, and these poor guys just lost it.

2 comments:

sal m said...

i can just imagine a personal trainer at a gym somewhere tying off a guys' leg so he can do some heavy leg extensions and make those quads really GROW!

JH said...

"patients who are injured, specifically ACL injuries, have been shown to benefit from an occlusive stimulus".

Benefit how?

Franco Columbo in the 1970s blew out his knee carrying a 500 pound fridge. As strong as he was that should have never happened!!

(I can't find a picture of the incident but it use to be in Arnolds book also from the 70s)