| KAATSU Training is a new method involving compressing venous to reduce blood flow, resulting in the distal limb vein pool effect and inducing increasing in size of muscle cells, which leads to promoting protein synthesis, stimulating muscle growth and improving muscle fitness even when excise at relatively lower intensities. Due to its safety and superior effect, KAATSU Training has become internationally popular . KAATSU Training uses compressive belts on the proximal end of the limb. The training is at low-intensity and wit short-term exercises to increase muscle strength and improve muscle function. This new method is not only applied in improving the athletes' competition performance, preventing in the elderly and postoperative patients with muscle atrophy, and resisting the degenerative changes of bones and muscles caused by the physiological effects of astronauts' weight loss in orbit, it is also applied for patients with bony disease, cardiovascular conditions, obesity, diabetes, and neuromuscular disease, providing a new rehabilitation treatments. By reviewing practical applications and methods, principle and mechanism of KAATSU Training, the paper furtherly discussed the mechanism of compressive training, and provides scientific basis and theoretical guidance for its promotion. |
