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What is the topic of this review? Blood‐flow‐restricted (BFR) exercise represents a potential approach to augment the adaptive response to training and improve performance in endurance‐trained individuals. What advances does it highlight? When combined with low‐load resistance exercise, low‐ and moderate‐intensity endurance exercise and sprint interval exercise, BFR can provide an augmented acute stimulus for angiogenesis and mitochondrial biogenesis. These augmented acute responses can translate into enhanced capillary supply and mitochondrial function, and subsequent endurance‐type performance, although this might depend on the nature of the exercise stimulus. There is a requirement to clarify whether BFR training interventions can be used by high‐performance endurance athletes within their structured training programme.