{"id":324,"date":"2011-06-17T00:51:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T12:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2016-11-27T19:02:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T06:02:39","slug":"kaatsu-occlusion-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/kaatsu-occlusion-training.php","title":{"rendered":"Kaatsu Occlusion Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/kaatsu-occlusion-training.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Having worked out 26 years I get excited when I discover something I missed out or didn&#8217;t come across before. It doesn&#8217;t happen that often but it did this week when I came across Kaatsu training.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered it in the X-Reps books on body building and went on to discover this method has been used in Japan for 40 years and extensively researched and documented.<\/p>\n<p>Kaatsu training involves using cuffs or bands to decrease blood flow to the muscle being trained &#8211; similar to a blood pressure cuff but simple wraps will do. Care must be taken not to over do it with the cuffs.<\/p>\n<p>The technique is widely supported by a large number of scientific papers but is largely unknown outside of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video by a top natural body builder describing the benefits of Kaatsu.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2DcJPSjQ-OM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-XoB-AIrYk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycNCwqDjBtU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JT4M41GYfu0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Having worked out 26 years I get excited when I discover something I missed out or didn&#8217;t come across before. It doesn&#8217;t happen that often but it did this week when I came across Kaatsu training. I discovered it in the X-Reps books on body building and went on to discover this method has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[417,416,418,419],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-kaatsu","tag-kaatsu-training","tag-occluded-training","tag-occlusion-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}