Iraki Nutrition Podcast

Thomas Bjørnsen is a PhD student at the University of Agder focusing on skeletal muscle adaptions to blood flow restricted resistance exercise. He is also a lecture at the University of Agder in Norway where he teaches on various topics within sport science including exercise physiology, neuromuscular physiology and biomechanics. For the last 10 years, Thomas has worked with athletes mainly focusing on strength athletes and Head of Strength and Power Training at the Southern Norwegian Olympic Training Center The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sport Follow him on twitter: @thomasbjornsen In this podcast, Thomas and I discussed blood flow restriction training (BFR) Some of the topics that we covered where: 1.What is BFR training? 2. What does the research shown in regards to BFR? 3. How do you perform BFR? 4. How do you implement it in your training program?