Just been learning alott about different tissues and trying out different PE strategies. From what I know medically and have experienced in a long PE career it makes sense. Also I have a life these days, working overtime, married and active family and social life, I can't afford to do the hours worth of routines in the past. And I don't think need to. I've learned to really attack the tissues and then just let it rest and heal one can keep making consistent gains. I hope it plays out true in my case but time will tell. I've been hitting milestones so I think the odds are good. The inevitable plateau comes and instead of upping the ante and making maybe 25 to 30% more gains and leading to major conditioning, thereby making future gains harder. I just rest, let the body do its repair work, let the tissues decondition and then come back and do it all over. 2 years off and I can jump back into 8 lb fulcrum hangs tells me I needed the break. I also know what I can get away with and have a better framework of what it takes to gain and keep that up consistently.
Also I used to use heat throughout treatment now I warm up and then continue the heat during the first couple of minutes. The theory is the heat breaks some of the bonds in the connective tissues and aids in elasticity. The rest of the session it's cooling back off and the connective tissue is rearranging itself in an elongated position. ADS and rest help "cement" this gain as the tissue proliferates, repairs itself and becomes permanently adapted.
ADS or maybe even relaxed manual work BEFORE the main work might aid in creep deformation and will mean a lower load or the same load will have a greater impact. Been testing it out this last week and makes sense. Will concur objectively in a few more "runs" or "gains campaigns" as I like to look at them.
The hardest part is stopping after gaining but as mine and other experiences shows, you can bust that plateau but it'll come with more work, more conditioning, more work in the future to make the same gains, possibility of gains coming to a halt and will prolong the decon one would need to "reset" the tissues before another gains campaign.
Attack it, rest it, track your progress, get those "easy" (or easier) and"cheap" 75% gains and then take a break. Rinse and repeat. Now with girth I will probably do like 5 days on 5 days off. I tend to gain girth easy. You'll see I do a 1 day on 1 to 3 day off for length. Do that for one month. Rest for a month or two. I say rest but I continue sumo squat stretches and ADS if possible.