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Athletes are always searching for the edge - the extra boost that helps them outperform their competition without breaking down their bodies. With B3 Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) Bands, that edge is here.

B3 Bands allow athletes to train with lighter loads while achieving better results compared to traditional high-intensity training. Whether you're competing at the collegiate, professional, or elite level, BFR training unlocks powerful physiological responses that accelerate performance, strength, & recovery.

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With BFR training, you create four profound effects in the body that are not attainable with traditional training methods:

Less Load On The Body

Train at 20-30% of your normal weight load & still achieve elite results.
Protect joints, tendons, and muscles while stimulating powerful growth and endurance adaptations.

A Big Nitric Oxide Release

BFR training triggers a surge of nitric oxide, increasing circulation, oxygen delivery, and vascular health - fueling performance and enhancing recovery between workouts or games.

Complete & Deeper Muscle Recruitment

By limiting oxygen to the working muscles, BFR causes both slow- and fast-twitch fibers to activate fully - something nearly impossible to achieve with traditional training alone.

A Big Post-BFR Growth Hormone Surge

After a BFR session, the body releases a massive growth hormone spike, leading to faster muscle repair, increased lean muscle, and improved athletic recovery.

The result: Significant performance changes

Explosive strength and power

Study: 8 Men Knee Extension

Reference: Blood Flow Restriction Alters Motor Unit Behavior During Resistance Exercise

Conclusions: There was a notable shift towards higher values of firing rate and MUAP amplitude post BFR exercise. Taken together, our data indicate that Low Intensity BFR exercise increases the activity of motor units with higher amplitude. They also indicate that motor units with similar amplitudes become activated at higher firing rates post-LI BFR exercise

Study: Low-intensity sprint training with BFR in well trained sport students.

Reference: Low-Intensity Sprint Training With Blood Flow Restriction Improves 100-m Dash

Conclusions: The BFR improved the 100-m dash time significantly more than low-intensity sprint interval training alone

Study: 15 Male College Track & Field Athletes

Reference: Eight days KAATSU-resistance training improved sprint performance in collegiate male track and field athletes

Conclusions: Overall 30-m dash times improved in the BFR-training group, with significant improvements occurring during the initial acceleration phase

Increased Aerobic Capacity & Endurance

Study: Cycle Training with BFR in Young Men

Reference: Effects of Low-Intensity Cycle Training with Restricted Leg Blood Flow on Thigh Muscle Volume and VO2 MAX in Young Men

CONCLUSIONS: Significant improvements in VO2 max (6.4%) and exercise time until exhaustion (15.4%) were observed in the BFR-training group (p < 0.05) but not in the CON-training group (-0.1 and 3. 9%, respectively). The results suggest that low-intensity, short-duration cycling exercise combined with BFR improves both muscle hypertrophy and aerobic capacity concurrently in young men.

Study: 4 weeks of BFR and Cycling

Reference: The Effect of Speed, Power and Strength Training, and a Group Motivational Presentation on Physiological Markers of Athlete Readiness: A Case Study in Professional Rugby. Cook et al (2014)

CONCLUSIONS: Therefore, the increased metabolic and physiologic strains induced by blood flow restriction seem to have been responsible to trigger the adaptive responses linked to a longer time to fatigue after BFR training. Thus BFR Training is shorter, but produces results similar to much longer endurance training

Study: BFR Walk Training Effects on Performance

Reference: THE EFFECTS OF BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION TRAINING ON VO2 MAX AND 1.5 MILE RUN PERFORMANCE

CONCLUSIONS: Blood flow restriction walk training resulted in significant improvements in VO_{2 max}(p=.034), significant decreases in 1.5 mile run time (p=.024) and significant increases in thigh muscle cross sectional area (p=.016). BFR walk training represents a singular training methodology for improving aerobic capacity, endurance and muscular size at low training volumes and intensities. This may be beneficial for individuals undertaking concurrent strength and endurance training.

Study: 28 Young Male Soccer Players

Reference: Interval Training with Blood Flow Restriction on Aerobic Performance among Young Soccer Players at Transition Phase

CONCLUSIONS: The present study has been shown significant differences at maximum oxygen uptake between groups. It has been estimated increasing 3.66% at VO2 max in interval groups under blood restriction while has been shown only 1.43% increasing at maximum oxygen uptake in interval groups without blood restriction. This study investigated effect of interval training (moderate intensity-aerobic energy system) with blood flow restriction on the aerobic performance and rate of perceived exertion. A difference of 1.43% vs 3.66% in VO2 max improvement is significant.

Strength & Muscle Development

Peer Review on 4 Studies by Duquesne University : Peer Review

Study: 32 Collegiate Football Players

Reference: J Strength Cond Res 26(9): 2523-2529, 2012, Yamanaka, T, Farley, RS, and Caputo, JL. Occlusion training increases muscular strength in division IA football players.

CONCLUSIONS: Strength changes can be achieved with training using less weight and BFR bands. With the additional benefit of reduced loads and recovery time, this is a very promising approach to training elite level athletes and military personnel.

Study: 20 Rugby Players

Reference: The Effect of Speed, Power and Strength Training, and a Group Motivational Presentation on Physiological Markers of Athlete Readiness: A Case Study in Professional Rugby. Cook et al (2014)

CONCLUSIONS: Occlusion training can potentially improve the rate of strength training gains and fatigue resistance in trained athletes, possibly allowing greater gains from lower loading which could be of benefit during high training loads, in competitive seasons, or in a rehabilitative setting. The clear improvement in bench press strength resulting from lower-body occlusion suggests a systemic effect of blood flow restricted training.

Study: 17 Rugby Players

Reference: Eur J Appl Physiol. 2002 Feb;86(4):308-14. Effects of resistance exercise combined with vascular occlusion on muscle function in athletes. Takarada, Sato, Ishii

CONCLUSIONS: The results indicated that low-intensity resistance exercise causes, in almost fully trained athletes, increases in muscle size, strength and endurance, when combined with vascular occlusion.

Study: 62 Football Players

Reference: THE EFFECTS OF A 7-WEEK PRACTICAL BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION PROGRAM ON WELL-TRAINED COLLEGIATE ATHLETES

CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that a practical BFR program used in addition to a traditional strength training program can be effective at increasing 1RM squat performance

nitric oxide RELEASE

Study: 6 Males Leg Extension Training

Reference: Blood Flow Restriction Enhances Post-Resistance Exercise Angiogenic Gene Expression

CONCLUSIONS: Chronic training actually reduces NOS because excessive levels are associated with chronic inflammatory processes. Meanwhile, low skeletal muscle content of NOS are associated with metabolic and vascular dysfunction. This study indicates that the addition of BFR to acute low-intensity exercise increases post exercise muscle expression of NOS.

growth hormone BOOST

Study: 11 Males - Large Increase in HGH

Reference: Hemodynamic and hormonal responses to a short-term low-intensity resistance exercise with the reduction of muscle blood flow.

CONCLUSIONS: Growth Hormone Increased increased GH (0.11+/-0.03 to 8.6+/-1.1 ng/ml). These results suggest that short term low intensity resistance exercise with BFR significantly stimulates the exercise-induced GH.

Study: 13 Healthy College Aged Females

Reference: Hormone Responses to an Acute Bout of Low Intensity Blood Flow Restricted Resistance Exercise in College-Aged Females

CONCLUSIONS: GH increased immediately post exercise for both protocols (high intensity and BFR) as compared to baseline. In conclusion, acute BFR restricted resistance exercise stimulated similar increases in Anabolic hormone responses in young women as high intensity exercise.

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