Neuro-Muscle Lab
Come ON Biomedical × Alive Festival
What if your muscles grew fastest not from lifting heavier but
from being starved of oxygen for
90 seconds at a time?
If you're managing pain, coming back from an injury or just want the results of heavy lifting without loading your joints, this is built for you.
Blood flow restriction (BFR) lets you train with weights light enough to feel almost too easy and still trigger the muscle response.
Normally, your body only recruits its fastest, most powerful muscle fibers, and releases the growth hormone that comes with it, when you lift close to your limit, typically 70% or more of what you can handle.
BFR changes that equation.
A cuff placed above the muscle partially restricts blood flow, enough to trap oxygen-depleted blood and metabolic byproducts inside the muscle, not enough to cut circulation off.
That line matters: too little restriction and nothing happens, too much and you're just cutting off a limb's blood supply, which is dangerous and defeats the purpose, since the muscle still needs blood flow to receive the stimulus at all.
Restricted this way, a light load, as little as 20% of what you'd normally lift, reads to your muscle as a maximal effort.
Oxygen runs low, metabolites build up fast, and your body responds by recruiting fast-twitch fibers and releasing growth hormone at levels usually reserved for heavy lifting.
Less weight, same signal. The signal was never really about the weight, it was always about the oxygen.
Guess how many reps you think you'll manage before the cuff even goes on.
Then find out, live, in under three minutes. Most people guess wrong, and that gap is the whole point, it's BFR working in real time, not a claim on a page.
Guess your number correctly, and walk away with a free 1-on-1 trial session.
Ready for
the Neuro-Muscle Challenge?
How it works
Come ON Biomedical is a Barcelona-based startup built on muscle recovery science, backed by a US patent and 10+ peer-reviewed publications and an international award.