A muscle training method, comprising the following steps that are repeated alternately to perform training of a muscle of a user:
- a pressuring and exercise step of winding a belt around an arm of the user, the muscle being in the arm of the user, and applying a specific pressure thereto so as to restrict blood circulation to the muscle without stopping the blood circulation, and having the user perform a load-applied exercise to apply a load of specific weight to the muscle of the user;
- and
- an exercise stopping step of having the user stop the load-applied exercise while continuously applying the specific pressure to the user,
- wherein the load-applied exercise is a one-arm curl exercise which is performed by the arm of the user;
- wherein
- the specific weight is set at 20-30% of a maximum weight necessary for the user to exert a maximum muscle force,
- wherein the pressuring and exercise step is performed three times or more including a first pressuring and exercise step, a second pressuring and exercise step, and a third pressuring and exercise step, wherein a number of the load-applied exercise performed in the second pressuring and exercise step is set at ½ or less of the number of the load-applied exercise performed in the first pressuring and exercise step, and a number of the load-applied exercise performed in the third pressuring and exercise step is set at ½ or less of a number of the load-applied exercise performed in the second pressuring and exercise step,
- wherein a number of the load-applied exercise performed in the first pressuring and exercise step is set at 25 to 30,
- wherein, in the exercise stopping step, a stopping duration of the load-applied exercise is set at 10 to 20 seconds,
- wherein the muscle training method further comprises a pressure setting step to set the specific pressure,
- wherein the pressure setting step comprises an attachment step, in which the belt is wound around the arm of the user for attachment with a specific attachment pressure, a pressurization step, in which pressure higher than the specific attachment pressure is applied to the user, and a depressurization step, in which the pressure applied in the pressurization step is removed to return to the specific attachment pressure, and
- wherein the pressurization step and the depressurization step are performed alternately a plurality of times while setting a value of pressure in a given pressurization step larger than a value of pressure in a preceding pressurization step compared to the given pressurization step, and a pressure applied when a color of a palm of the user turns red or reddish brown in the pressurization step is set as the specific pressure.