hey fedora...i have been doing this as well...i would manually stretch for 1/2hr and then i would put on the padding and lazy ass stretch for about 15 minutes...and my stretch is a lot more...sometime it stretches so much that it over extends and the noose miss the padding all together and i have to adjust the padding...but yeah it works really well...keep up the good work little fella...soon we will have to change that to big fella