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Hello, we are from the Department of Health, Exercise Science, and Recreation Management at the University of Mississippi. We ask you to please take a moment to really consider helping us out with this research study! PLEASE participate in a research study that we are conducting for a dissertation. The title of the study is “Handgrip Training with and without Blood Flow Restriction on vascular and muscle adaptations”. This research will be performed to determine if low force muscle contractions with or without blood flow restriction can improve muscular and cardiovascular adaptations over the same exercise without blood flow restriction. We will also be comparing these adaptations to a group performing high force muscle contraction.

Our study will consist of four different groups. Group 1: low force contractions for four 2-minute sets using the dominant hand; Group 2: low force contractions in combination with blood flow restriction for four 2-minute sets using the dominant hand; Group 3: high force contractions for four 5-second maximal contractions; and Group 4: is a non-exercise time matched control. The total commitment for this study will be 20 total visits consisting of 18 training visits and 2 testing visits. Each of the testing visits (2 out of 20) will last approximately 75 minutes, while each training visit will last approximately 15 minutes.

You qualify if you:

• Are between the ages of 18–35 years
• Are not currently lifting weights (barbell/dumbbells, push-ups, etc.) and have not lifted weights in the last 6 months
• Are not taking medication influencing heart rate/blood pressure.
• Have not regularly used tobacco in the last 6 months.

This study has been approved by UM’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) # 22-019

There are no monetary compensation. However, we are a very loving and fun group of graduate students that would love to spend 6 weeks of the summer training you. Please join us in the Turner Center for some research fun. Please, please, please join us on this journey to answer these research questions! We would love to start as soon as possible. We are looking for a few people to join us now so that we can have a lighter load in the Fall. Please email Vic Wong (vwong@olemiss.edu) or Rob Spitz (rwspitz@go.olemiss.edu) for more information.