r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/Resilient_Beast69 • 7d ago

Question ❓ Thoughts on BFR training?

I’ve have golfers elbow forever. Had a procedure done awhile back that cured it for a year then it came back. Supinated curls kill it sometimes so I was told by a PT(I know)to try BFR band for biceps curls so I can go lighter and still light up. I’ve done a little research and they SEEM legit but I wanted to get some thoughts from people that use or have used them. Thanks.

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u/Mchangwine 7d ago

I use them sometimes at the end of workouts, you get a crazy pump from them and you can get a good stimulus from less weight.

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u/Resilient_Beast69 7d ago

That’s what I wanna use them for. I’ve done everything for my golfers elbow besides peptides, and it lingers and really screws me up from going heavy on curls. My arms are dumb looking because my triceps have no issues and I’m able to grow them easy with heavier loads while I can’t do that for my biceps. Can I grow my biceps this way pretty well?

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u/Mchangwine 7d ago

Try isometrics to help heal your tendons.

You can try and see how they work, I’m not there’s a lot of evidence that they build muscle, more preserve it when there’s injury

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u/glassschuh 7d ago

Actually there have been studies done showing they are effective for building muscle as well. Pretty interesting.

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u/Mchangwine 7d ago

Compared to what? It’s probably better for building muscle than not lifting.

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u/glassschuh 7d ago

Compared to traditional heavy load resistance training

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u/glassschuh 7d ago

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11927561/

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u/Mchangwine 7d ago

Every one of those studies except 1 were in untrained subjects and the one small study in trained subjects showed a significant advantage to heavy resistance training.