Pump more blood.

Training is essential in order to build muscle. No one can sit on their ass all day and expect to see their muscles grow. There’s a reason that no pain, no gain is a saying to live by. Muscles don’t just grow from moderate work. If you want to see some serious gains then that means you better be prepared to thrash your muscles to spark that growth. Training is the ultimate key to allowing your body to transform from average to shredded and swole.

The thing is about most training methods is that they’re boring. No matter how you cut it, training isn’t really all that exciting and in reality it doesn’t have to be. The sole purpose of hard training is to reap the rewards and get your muscles growing. But having the same training regimen can be really tiresome. You have to add some spice to the dish if you want to have a tasty and memorable meal. The same can be said for bodybuilding training.

Changing up the routine isn’t enough. Sometimes certain additions are needed to give a bodybuilder a different way of approaching the game. One such addition that can work wonders is occlusion training. It is one of the more scientific approaches to training out there, yet the process is fairly simple. With occlusion training, there’s the high possibility that you’ll be able to pump blood into your muscles faster, causing hypertrophy to occur much more rapidly. By applying tight straps above or below the muscle group you wish to train, you can trap blood in the area being worked.

Sounds a bit like broscience, but apparently the method has some major supporters who know a thing or two about the science of building muscle. Take a look and listen to Dr. Layne Norton as he explains the great overall benefits of occlusion training.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpKn8Hav5eM

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