Blood Flow Restriction Training: More Muscle Mass and Strength with BFR Training by Toni Lloret

Author:Toni Lloret [Lloret, Toni]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

How to measure BFR band pressure subjectively

The pressure to be used with the BFRT can be measured subjectively.

To measure the pressure subjectively we can think of a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is no pressure and 10 is a total occlusion veins and arteries (which we don’t want under any circumstances).

From there, the pressure we should use would be approximately 7 out of 10 for the legs, and for the arms, whose perimeter is smaller, we should lower the occlusion pressure a little, so 6 out of 10 would be fine.

There is no need to be exact, since we have seen that we have a wide margin in the pressure level without altering the blood flow restriction level.

In any case, it appears that a person can be quite accurate in measuring pressure subjectively. In fact, there is a 2018 study by Bell et al [138] investigating what accuracy level a person can have in self-regulating pressure according to their perception on a scale of 1 to 10.

The results of Bell's study in which the sample was 120 people, suggest that subjectively, a reasonable accuracy can be achieved when measuring band pressure [138].

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