OTS hanging, do I have a problem?

I have been hanging OTS for about a month now and I'm doing 3-4 sets 20 min with 15 lbs. I am getting this bad bruising on the back side just under the glands. I'm using a bib starter and only wrapping with theraband. Am I doing something wrong? This makes for one ugly dick.

Do you vets see the same thing? When I hang, the glands get real dark. It looks like there is less blood flow with this hanging angle.

Are you squeezing the blood out of your glans before attaching the hanger??

I got my worst bruising from OTS. Never found a way around it. I just switched to SD or BTC...never went back.

yes I get all the blood I can out. I never had this problem with BTC hanging, atleast not like this.

spongebob said:

I have been hanging OTS for about a month now and I'm doing 3-4 sets 20 min with 15 lbs. I am getting this bad bruising on the back side just under the glands. I'm using a bib starter and only wrapping with theraband. Am I doing something wrong? This makes for one ugly dick.

Do you vets see the same thing? When I hang, the glands get real dark. It looks like there is less blood flow with this hanging angle.

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Perhaps you went up in weight too fast.15 lbs in your first month of ots hanging is a lot.

Ulcasterdropout said:

I got my worst bruising from OTS. Never found a way around it. I just switched to SD or BTC...never went back.

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Where did you get your bruising from ots?
On the bottom shaft right under the glans?

spongebob,

Why don't you cut your set duration in half for a brief period for now and see how your unit handles it.

I have only reached 10min set time duration recently and I am slowly increasing.

Don't know if this will help.

GMJ.

GMJ

sponge,

>I have been hanging OTS for about a month now and I'm doing 3-4 sets 20 min with 15 lbs. I am getting this bad bruising on the back side just under the glands. I'm using a bib starter and only wrapping with theraband. Am I doing something wrong? This makes for one ugly dick.<

This would happen with me if I either went up in weight or time too quickly at a new angle, or if the wrap was too tight, or the hanger was too tight on bottom.

The hanger is supposed to grip the top sides of the two major chambers. Not much pressure on the bottom chamber, the CS, at all. If your wrap is loose enough to pee with it on, and the bottom gap is enough that the top teeth mesh a good bit when the hanger is tightened, then you should be ok.

Remember, each angle is different. Your soft tissues may be conditioned to hang BTC and SO, but not OTS. The reason is obviously because each angle places different stresses on different parts.

Many guys have remarked that OTS causes more discoloration. I think most of the time, it is because OTS is the last angle, or one of the last angles they try, and they attempt to hang the same weight they were using at the lower angles without conditioning the soft tissues for the new stresses. At the very least, they start out at a much higher weight than they did for the lower angles. I must admit that I was guilty of doing this from time to time.

Each time you change angles, you have to realize the differences in stresses, and start out easy. That is another good reason to change angles infrequently.

You may not have to start out at newbie weights, but you have to allow for conditioning of the soft tissues.

>Do you vets see the same thing? When I hang, the glands get real dark. It looks like there is less blood flow with this hanging angle.<

I cannot say for sure, but some of that may be that you have a better look at your head while hanging OTS. It is staring right at you.

Hope this helps,

Bigger

I do have the hanger adjusted right and I have wrapping down to a fine art, LOL

The starter bib I'm using has a wide gap on the bottom and the teeth mesh on top. I also have it toed out just a hair.

I think you are right in the problem might be I moved up in weight too fast trying to feel fatique. I didn't notice the bruising till I went over 12 lbs. I'll drop back in weight and try to do more sets.

dex said:

Where did you get your bruising from ots?
On the bottom shaft right under the glans?

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under glans

I got my bruising under the glands too.

I dropped the weight by 2 1/2 lbs and it solved the problem. Thanks guys!

Well guys, I thought dropping the weight had solved the problems but they returned. I had to hang more sets to get fatique and that's when the bruising returned. Looks like I may have to go back to SD and BTC hanging and just hope for more gains.

sponge,

>Well guys, I thought dropping the weight had solved the problems but they returned. I had to hang more sets to get fatique and that's when the bruising returned. Looks like I may have to go back to SD and BTC hanging and just hope for more gains.<

First, are you sure this is bruising, and not just discoloration? You believe there is actual blunt trama in the area? If so, there must be something wrong. Either the wrap is too tight, or not elastic enough, or something is up.

I must ask another question. You said when you went up in sets, the bruising returned. Did you go up in the number of sets slowly? What was your progression? How often did you add a set? Just as with weight, you must give the soft tissues time to adapt to time increases also. It takes time, weeks/a month or so, to work up to the correct balance of time and weight to bring on fatigue for each angle.

You said, "had to hang more sets to get fatique and that's when the bruising returned". Was your first goal reaching fatigue, or allowing time for the soft tissues to adapt to the new stresses? It has only been 12 days since you dropped the weight. I am worried that you added too many sets, too quickly in those 12 days. Or did you not drop the weight enough?

I just do not want you to switch angles without looking at all the angles, so to speak. If you need to hang OTS, then you need to find a way to do it, and give time for the tissues to adapt to that angle. As I have said before, too many times, guys abandon something, a new angle, because it seems tougher than their original efforts. But in reality, they just are disheartened because they thought they had everything licked. Every angle has it's own challenges.

Bigger

I dropped the weight down to 10 lbs and only did 3-20 min sets. Under my glands it's getting very dark and when I finished a set, the glands were too dark blue. The last two days I did OTS hanging I noticed my glands starting to become numb and that is when I decided it was time to stop and let things heal. I haven't done anything since last Saturday and by Monday everything is fine. The dark areas under my glands has even cleared up it where you can hardly see it now.

What I meant by going up in sets is I did 3x20 twice a day for the last few days, one in the morning and one in the evening. I rested 10-15 min between sets.

What I must be seeing is discoloration because bruising would seem not to heal this fast.

sponge,

OK. If you need to hang OTS, I would recommend that you continue to work with it. Try many different wrapping techniques, and hanger settings, start at even a lower weight, with only a couple of sets. Then start to slowly work your way up in time. Add perhaps a set per week.

Then, when you are hanging for your available privacy time, start to increase the weight, perhaps a lb per week. Within a couple of months, you should have worked up to a level of stress that will bring on fatigue fairly early, without any soft tissue problems.

Bigger

I have stopped all hanging till things heal up. I got some Arnica gel to help too. About how long does it take this stuff to work?

one other thing I wanted to add. The dark areas I got from hanging OTS that were under the glands would go away after a few hours. I stopped all hanging to try to help the area heal. Yesturday I did some light jelqing and the same area went dark just like it did when I was hanging. This never happened before and it's like there is something wrong in that area. I did manual jelqing for over a year and never had this. I got some Arnica gel and I started using it 3-4 times a day. The dark areas go back close to normal but are still a little dark after about an hour or so. It's like the blood vessels are broken in those spots or something. Has anyone else had a problem like this?

I have the same problem , i think its eraly in our hanging days thats why , just keep going as normal and im sure after a while it wqill go away , same happened to me while BTC after a month it didnt happen !