Chicken Legs No More! Building Big Wheels By Walking on the Treadmill: Blood Flow-Restriction Does the Trick!
Image 1: One thing is certain, the squat, the "King of all Exercises" will never become obsolete. (image by verkinetic @Wikipedia) You have chicken legs, but are too lazy to squat? Well, I guess in this case you will be interested in the results of a recent study by Sakamaki et al. ( Sakamaki. 2011 ) who found that blood flow-restriction is all it takes to induce legs and trunk muscle hypertrophy by just walking the treadmill. For their study, which was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine the Mikako Sakamaki from the University of Tokyo and his colleagues from the University of Oklahama had 17 "healthy young" men [21.2 (±1.9) years, 1.74 (±0.07) m, and 65.8 (±9.6) kg] participate in 3 weeks of supervised walk training. Following a warm-up, the subjects performedwalking ( 50 m/minute for five 2-minute bouts, with a 1-minute rest between bouts ) on a motor-driven treadmill. The walking speed and duration remained cons...