Training with blood flow restriction increases femoral artery diameter and thigh oxygen delivery during knee‐extensor exercise in recreationally trained men

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Abstract

In the present study, we investigated the effect of training with blood flow restriction (BFR) on thigh oxygen transport and uptake, and lactate release, during exercise. Ten recreationally-trained men (50 ± 5 mL kg-1 min-1 ) completed 6 weeks of interval cycling with one leg under BFR (BFR-leg; pressure: ∼180 mmHg) and the other leg without BFR (CON-leg). Before and after the training intervention (INT), thigh oxygen delivery, extraction, uptake, diffusion capacity and lactate release were determined during knee-extensor exercise at 25% incremental peak power output (iPPO) (Ex1), followed by exercise to exhaustion at 90% pre-training iPPO (Ex2), by measurement of femoral-artery blood flow and femoral-arterial and -venous blood sampling. A muscle biopsy was obtained from legs before and after INT to determine mitochondrial electron-transport protein content. Femoral-artery diameter was also measured. In the BFR-leg, after INT, oxygen delivery and uptake were higher, and net lactate release was lower, during Ex1 (vs. CON-leg; P 0.05). In the CON-leg, at both intensities, oxygen delivery, extraction, uptake and lactate release remained unchanged (P > 0.05). Resting femoral artery diameter increased with INT only in the BFR-leg (∼4%; P 0.05). Thus, BFR-interval training enhances oxygen utilization by, and lowers lactate release from, submaximally-exercising muscles of recreationally-trained men mainly by increasing leg convective oxygen transport.

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