CampTeck U6831 D-Ring Ankle & Wrist Cuffs Neoprene Adjustable Strap for Gym Cable Machine Workouts, Glute Legs & Abdominal Exercises – Black, 1 Pair

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Blood Flow Restriction can be tricky business—sure, you can go with elastic bands, but those take forever to get on and off. Now that your cuffs are inflated to a pressure that’s calibrated to either your arms or legs, it’s time to get your pump on. My recommended pressure is 140mmHg on my arms, and that’s plenty to get a wild pump at very light weight.

In other words, in the time I’ve been training with the BFR cuffs, I’ve used them for bicep curls, tricep extensions, and leg extensions, which all focus on one particular muscle. Considering the cost of the cuffs, I think it’s important that you have a plan for how you’ll include BFR training into your routine prior to picking them up. You’re only able to pair two cuffs at a time, which makes sense because you shouldn’t be occluding four body parts at once for safety reasons. You have the option to rename your cuffs, though I didn’t find that necessary as it’s pretty clear which cuffs are fit for your legs and which are a fit for your arms.

You shouldn’t wear your BFR cuffs inflated for more than 20 minutes at a time, though a balanced high-load-focused routine will never have you working with BFR cuffs for longer than that anyway. SAGA offers two sizes of cuffs: the medium, which will fit on your arms, and the large, which is designed for legs. When you head over to the quad-extension machine, add on your BFR cuffs, lighten-up the weight, and aim for 15-30 reps. And if you’re a personal trainer, having a set of these is like adding a tool to your business you can use across several clients.For me, that’s using them for one exercise every session, which is absolutely worthwhile when stretched over the course of an eight-week program. For me, it offers a different way to hit the target muscle groups that’s not heavy, but still just as intense. Because I don’t superset bicep curls with pushups, bench, or any other exercise, there’s no need for me to deflate my cuffs in between sets. With their Bluetooth enabled BFR training cuffs, their app supposedly works like a sports-medicine therapist, inflating and deflating the cuffs to the perfect level for maximum hypertrophy.

If you run through a set and feel that the restriction wasn’t enough, you can easily increase (or decrease) the pressure with just a few taps. From what I’ve read, it’s not like your body does more, but it’s able to produce the same effect with lighter weight. When using a device like the SAGA fitness cuffs, you’ll never run the risk of occluding your muscles too much, as they’re calibrated to your blood pressure and body.

That said, adding in a few sets of low-load BFR training to augment your standard high-load training can offer a different stimulus to your muscles and is possibly more effective than high-load training alone. But if you’re a regular joe like me, I think these work best when you’re halfway through an 8-week heavy lifting program and your joints start to ache a bit. I love the wireless aspect—it’s easy to toss these in my gym bag so I can quickly bust them out for my BFR training sets, which make up a small percentage of my total workout.

After listening to the aching in my knees after some heavy squats, I decided to work SAGA’s cuffs into my routine.

Bottom line: SAGA is the only wireless product on the market that allows for precise blood flow restriction (as in, you can dial in the mmHg). I'll share with you the exact strategies that I, and hundreds of my students have successfully applied to achieve true dating abundance as masculine men.