Muscle for Life

Blood flow restriction training is making waves of late. It sounds new. It sounds scientific. And some are saying it’s revolutionary. Well, it also smacks of artifice. Like it was contrived by marketers to sell the latest round of magazines, pills, and powders. And so if you’ve been skeptical, good. You should be. You see, the more time you spend educating yourself in the ways of muscle building, the more you become certain of one thing: If something sounds too good to be true — too easy, too effective, too innovative — it almost always is. Eventually, you learn that there really is no shortcut to building a strong, muscular, lean body. There are right and wrong ways of going about it, of course, but at least 80% of your long-term results will come from diligent application of the fundamentals: - An emphasis on heavy compound lifting. - Sensible workout programming. - Ensuring you recover adequately. - Proper diet and nutrition. Everything that falls outside of those boundaries should be viewed with a gimlet