"BFR is the single best way to achieve those levels of fatigue you know and love from your youth without the accompanying debilitating pain that comes with exceeding the load tolerance of your old ass non-contractile tissue." I love this. Thank you.
I have been listening to this guy talk about it for a while, but have been reluctant to try. https://bfr.mercola.com/
Now with a knee injury, and your well explained recommendation, I think I will give it a try.
Awesome, let me know how it goes! Something I didn't mention in the article, if your knee injury is such that you have pain with doorknob squats (happens sometimes), you just need even less load, which can be accomplished usually with a leg press or total gym. Let me know if you run into that issue and I can give more details. As a longtime reader of lewrockwell.com I'm very familiar with Dr. Mercola, but didn't realize he has been talking about BFR. The tough thing with people like Mercola is that they tend to hype up whatever they're talking about, whether it being a training modality or supplement such that you don't know what is the most relevant to you. In this case, I think he picked a winner to advertise, but checking out the link you sent he said it gives you faster results than traditional training, that is the only thing that almost certainly isn't true, and hype like that is enough to make skeptical folks think that BFR is BS. If it was so much better, then all pro bodybuilders would be doing it. In reality, almost zero pro bodybuilders use it (although I think it would be a good adjunct for when they get injured, but hard to convince people at the top of the muscle building game there's something they don't know).
Good points Grant. I like Dr. M, but take everything with heavy grains of salt. I am first a skeptic. Probably why I am here on Substack, reading great writing like yours.
"BFR is the single best way to achieve those levels of fatigue you know and love from your youth without the accompanying debilitating pain that comes with exceeding the load tolerance of your old ass non-contractile tissue." I love this. Thank you.
I have been listening to this guy talk about it for a while, but have been reluctant to try. https://bfr.mercola.com/
Now with a knee injury, and your well explained recommendation, I think I will give it a try.
Awesome, let me know how it goes! Something I didn't mention in the article, if your knee injury is such that you have pain with doorknob squats (happens sometimes), you just need even less load, which can be accomplished usually with a leg press or total gym. Let me know if you run into that issue and I can give more details. As a longtime reader of lewrockwell.com I'm very familiar with Dr. Mercola, but didn't realize he has been talking about BFR. The tough thing with people like Mercola is that they tend to hype up whatever they're talking about, whether it being a training modality or supplement such that you don't know what is the most relevant to you. In this case, I think he picked a winner to advertise, but checking out the link you sent he said it gives you faster results than traditional training, that is the only thing that almost certainly isn't true, and hype like that is enough to make skeptical folks think that BFR is BS. If it was so much better, then all pro bodybuilders would be doing it. In reality, almost zero pro bodybuilders use it (although I think it would be a good adjunct for when they get injured, but hard to convince people at the top of the muscle building game there's something they don't know).
Good points Grant. I like Dr. M, but take everything with heavy grains of salt. I am first a skeptic. Probably why I am here on Substack, reading great writing like yours.
you bet!