Comments on: Vascular Shunt Training http://beebleblog.com/2007/03/25/vascular-shunt-training/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vascular-shunt-training A Fitness, Diet and Health Blog Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:14:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jack fitzgerald http://beebleblog.com/2007/03/25/vascular-shunt-training/comment-page-1/#comment-29260 jack fitzgerald Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:01:02 +0000 http://beebleblog.com/2007/03/25/vascular-shunt-training/#comment-29260 how does the vascular shunt actually happen? how does the vascular shunt actually happen?

]]> By: hugo http://beebleblog.com/2007/03/25/vascular-shunt-training/comment-page-1/#comment-18904 hugo Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:00:09 +0000 http://beebleblog.com/2007/03/25/vascular-shunt-training/#comment-18904 Many thanks for the question and I hope I can suitably answer it for you. A shunt is a diversion and vascular shunt in the body (in relation to exercise) normally refers to the body changing from rest to exercise. This is where the body diverts blood to the skeletal muscles and away from organs like the liver and kidneys. However vascular shunt training refers to a way of performing exercises that will train one part of the body and then immediately after the other extremities. The most obvious example of this is to split the body into upper and lower. So by training the lower body first the blood is diverted to the leg muscles. The heart happily pumps the blood to the muscles that need it and the contracting muscles are able to return the blood back to the heart. By now going to an upper body exercise the legs cease to move which creates blood pooling in the legs. The body knows that it now needs more blood to the upper body muscles now being used. More often than not it will use gravity and divert or shunt blood away from the brain to be used in the muscles requiring it. This is why when this type of training is tried initially most people will end up feeling light headed and faint. So maybe shunt seems like a strange name for it I personally think it describes not only the exercise but why the exercise is being performed. The point of this exercise (I had really hoped that the post had explained this) is to improve the body's ability to get the blood where it is needed as quickly as possible. It is very rare in sport that you can be as controlled as you are in a gym. Sport is never "I will train my legs first and then my shoulders and then I may train my abs". Sport is legs, arms, abs, back, chest and everything else all in one and vascular shunt training takes the normal gym session and gets your body to think about where it might need blood next. Over time this has proved to make the body more efficient in the transportation of blood around the body. As for official studies you will have to search the internet for more information on that. The only proof I have are the numerous clients (including myself) I have trained and seen the improvement in their cardio performance. Many thanks for the question and I hope I can suitably answer it for you.

A shunt is a diversion and vascular shunt in the body (in relation to exercise) normally refers to the body changing from rest to exercise. This is where the body diverts blood to the skeletal muscles and away from organs like the liver and kidneys. However vascular shunt training refers to a way of performing exercises that will train one part of the body and then immediately after the other extremities. The most obvious example of this is to split the body into upper and lower. So by training the lower body first the blood is diverted to the leg muscles. The heart happily pumps the blood to the muscles that need it and the contracting muscles are able to return the blood back to the heart. By now going to an upper body exercise the legs cease to move which creates blood pooling in the legs. The body knows that it now needs more blood to the upper body muscles now being used. More often than not it will use gravity and divert or shunt blood away from the brain to be used in the muscles requiring it. This is why when this type of training is tried initially most people will end up feeling light headed and faint. So maybe shunt seems like a strange name for it I personally think it describes not only the exercise but why the exercise is being performed.

The point of this exercise (I had really hoped that the post had explained this) is to improve the body’s ability to get the blood where it is needed as quickly as possible. It is very rare in sport that you can be as controlled as you are in a gym. Sport is never “I will train my legs first and then my shoulders and then I may train my abs”. Sport is legs, arms, abs, back, chest and everything else all in one and vascular shunt training takes the normal gym session and gets your body to think about where it might need blood next. Over time this has proved to make the body more efficient in the transportation of blood around the body.

As for official studies you will have to search the internet for more information on that. The only proof I have are the numerous clients (including myself) I have trained and seen the improvement in their cardio performance.

]]> By: Nate http://beebleblog.com/2007/03/25/vascular-shunt-training/comment-page-1/#comment-18900 Nate Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:59:27 +0000 http://beebleblog.com/2007/03/25/vascular-shunt-training/#comment-18900 Isn't a shunt a diversion? Isn't that a strange name for such an exercise? What's the point of this type of exercise? What studies show that it truly strengthens the cardiovascular system? Isn’t a shunt a diversion? Isn’t that a strange name for such an exercise?

What’s the point of this type of exercise? What studies show that it truly strengthens the cardiovascular system?

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