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Well, yes and no. You take a day off and there's slight recovery from tissue fatigue and soreness , but get back into your hanging and you break things down again. Assuming that you are hanging correctly and using the progressive approach, rather than doing as some do and never pushing your limits.
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Simyan;662997 said:
Totally Agree!
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I have to agree with stillwantmore. If you're progressing on only two days for example, personally I wouldn't increase until I plateaued.
From my experience, physiological indicators are the most important thing. I used to strap on the Phallosan immediately after a hanging set with the LG (1.5 hours fulcrum) and have it on all day long if possible. For the first couple of nights, it was great! I'd wake up bursting out of the Phallosan with morning wood. Over time however, the lack of rest for the penis seemed to lead to no gains, I would stop having morning wood and wouldn't be able to get the full erection all the time.
Right now, all I focus on is throttling that barrier between negative and positive physiological indicators. I gain consistently (fingers crossed). I stopped rest days for the most part (some times I am too busy to get a hang in for a day).
This is what I have settled on my routine: 20-21lbs max fulcrum hang with LG for 1.5 hours straight every day (lowering weight as fatigue comes).
My 1.5 hours goes like: 10 minutes standing with left/right leg up (switching after 5 minutes), 20 minutes fulcrum where I initially try to set my penis to sit on the side against my curvature, then pull the pipe left/right to hit the hang straight on! Lift each end of the PVC pipe so that the fulcrum rolls even further towards the base and straighten out the skin so there is no irritation. After 20 minutes fulcrum, I do SD and kind of a squat hang 5 minutes each (total 10 min), then 20 minutes fulcrum exactly as before, then BTC ~5 minutes hitting whatever side I still feel strain (I've done BTC for a long time when I was doing Bib, so I rarely feel much therefore dedicate the remaining 5 minutes to any SD/squat/left leg up/right leg up that I feel some tension on the ligs still). Lastly, my final 20 minutes used to be a fulcrum of 20 minutes again.
HOWEVER, I found myself always awaking with ease in getting erections lately, so I've switched it up. That final 20 minutes (I'm usually down to 8lbs) I occasionally now do a bundled + fulcrum hang. This annihilates everything (cannot recommend this to anyone unless they've been doing fulcrums for a long time)! Usually after 1 or 2 days of this, my physiological indicators (erection) turns negative again. That's when I switch back to finishing with a regular 20 min fulcrum until the positive physiological indicators come back.
Furthermore, another way I knock the positive physiological indicators back to negative is through 2 days per week of split sets (separate these out/not too soon after the other). This is when I do 2x1 hour sets spaced out in the day. Sometimes I even add the bundled fulcrum to the last 20 minutes of one of these sets depending on how I feel.
So I went from this 1.5 or 2 hour split sets + phallosan after always sore, especially the head, and not seeing much in gains to now consistent gains. I am, however, thinking of testing this out further. Perhaps, I can do Phallosan a couple days immediately following a set for those first couple of days where I burst out of the thing in the morning, then back off once I can't get morning wood anymore.
Right now, all I focus on is throttling that barrier between negative and positive physiological indicators. I gain consistently (fingers crossed). I stopped rest days for the most part (some times I am too busy to get a hang in for a day).
This is what I have settled on my routine: 20-21lbs max fulcrum hang with LG for 1.5 hours straight every day (lowering weight as fatigue comes).
My 1.5 hours goes like: 10 minutes standing with left/right leg up (switching after 5 minutes), 20 minutes fulcrum where I initially try to set my penis to sit on the side against my curvature, then pull the pipe left/right to hit the hang straight on! Lift each end of the PVC pipe so that the fulcrum rolls even further towards the base and straighten out the skin so there is no irritation. After 20 minutes fulcrum, I do SD and kind of a squat hang 5 minutes each (total 10 min), then 20 minutes fulcrum exactly as before, then BTC ~5 minutes hitting whatever side I still feel strain (I've done BTC for a long time when I was doing Bib, so I rarely feel much therefore dedicate the remaining 5 minutes to any SD/squat/left leg up/right leg up that I feel some tension on the ligs still). Lastly, my final 20 minutes used to be a fulcrum of 20 minutes again.
HOWEVER, I found myself always awaking with ease in getting erections lately, so I've switched it up. That final 20 minutes (I'm usually down to 8lbs) I occasionally now do a bundled + fulcrum hang. This annihilates everything (cannot recommend this to anyone unless they've been doing fulcrums for a long time)! Usually after 1 or 2 days of this, my physiological indicators (erection) turns negative again. That's when I switch back to finishing with a regular 20 min fulcrum until the positive physiological indicators come back.
Furthermore, another way I knock the positive physiological indicators back to negative is through 2 days per week of split sets (separate these out/not too soon after the other). This is when I do 2x1 hour sets spaced out in the day. Sometimes I even add the bundled fulcrum to the last 20 minutes of one of these sets depending on how I feel.
So I went from this 1.5 or 2 hour split sets + phallosan after always sore, especially the head, and not seeing much in gains to now consistent gains. I am, however, thinking of testing this out further. Perhaps, I can do Phallosan a couple days immediately following a set for those first couple of days where I burst out of the thing in the morning, then back off once I can't get morning wood anymore.
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bukkake;711106 said:
You have one of the best usernames of this forum my brother, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. But you need an avatar, may I suggest a few? These are just special effects guys not really sperm so it doesn't count as ����.
Anyways, when you say 1.5-2 hours straight do you mean one session that amounts to that length or time or do you literally not take off the hanger for that amount of time? If you do not take the hanger off for that long you should really be careful about circulation, I don't think 1.5 hours straight is a good idea.
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rocky1243;711113 said:You have one of the best usernames of this forum my brother, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. But you need an avatar, may I suggest a few? These are just special effects guys not really sperm so it doesn't count as ����.
Anyways, when you say 1.5-2 hours straight do you mean one session that amounts to that length or time or do you literally not take off the hanger for that amount of time? If you do not take the hanger off for that long you should really be careful about circulation, I don't think 1.5 hours straight is a good idea.
I do not do 2 hours straight; got a blister doing that one time. But I do 1.5 hours straight every single day if it's not a split set day (those are 2 one-hour sets that I try to separate by 12 hours). I don't take hanger off at all, haven't had any problems, but I've been doing it for a very long time - this is with LG the vacuum hanger. I just try to reach 10 hours total per week, so 2 all at once ever single day does me no good and I've found if I just do split sets on consecutive days, I get tons of soreness and makes sets unbearable by the second day.
So my point above is that some times rest days could also get me back onto positive physiological indicators, but I've found that it's better to power through with a lighter set (rather than some of the more intense things like 2x1hr in a single day or bundled) and things will catch up. Fulcrums themselves are quite intense, so it's all relative to what you're "normal" is. Say you hang 12 lbs SD or BTC only and that leaves you with negative physiological indicators, well I would guess maybe your light/"rest" days would be like 8lbs or something until the + indicators come back. Essentially, you're balance along the fine line of overtraining. Now when is the whole idea of 12lbs overtraining itself? When it continually sends you to - indicators as well as being well above your max, pain, blisters, things of that nature. I like to reach fatigue on max weight in the first 20 minute fulcrum (so
0 minutes).Since, I dropped Phallosan, I have gained about 1/8" every month I think. When I would use it every day, I went months with no progress. I had a pretty disruptive September too with personal/professional things, so had a lot of rest days and + physiological indicators after those, but probably took too many days off to keep momentum to pull out a full 1/8. But I won't be officially measuring until April 2017. I've been testing to see if these bundles will help with quicker gains and kind of prove my theory.
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bukkake;711118 said:I do not do 2 hours straight; got a blister doing that one time. But I do 1.5 hours straight every single day if it's not a split set day (those are 2 one-hour sets that I try to separate by 12 hours). I don't take hanger off at all, haven't had any problems, but I've been doing it for a very long time - this is with LG the vacuum hanger. I just try to reach 10 hours total per week, so 2 all at once ever single day does me no good and I've found if I just do split sets on consecutive days, I get tons of soreness and makes sets unbearable by the second day.
So my point above is that some times rest days could also get me back onto positive physiological indicators, but I've found that it's better to power through with a lighter set (rather than some of the more intense things like 2x1hr in a single day or bundled) and things will catch up. Fulcrums themselves are quite intense, so it's all relative to what you're "normal" is. Say you hang 12 lbs SD or BTC only and that leaves you with negative physiological indicators, well I would guess maybe your light/"rest" days would be like 8lbs or something until the + indicators come back. Essentially, you're balance along the fine line of overtraining. Now when is the whole idea of 12lbs overtraining itself? When it continually sends you to - indicators as well as being well above your max, pain, blisters, things of that nature. I like to reach fatigue on max weight in the first 20 minute fulcrum (so
Since, I dropped Phallosan, I have gained about 1/8" every month I think. When I would use it every day, I went months with no progress. I had a pretty disruptive September too with personal/professional things, so had a lot of rest days and + physiological indicators after those, but probably took too many days off to keep momentum to pull out a full 1/8. But I won't be officially measuring until April 2017.
Oh you use a vacuum hanger, never mind then keep it up. It is weird that when you stopped using the Phallosan you started gaining more, one would think that is a great device to compliment hanging. But everybody reacts different to exercises and devices so if this works for you don't stop nevermind the theory thats out there that might go against it. You sound like you are very much on top of your shit, why don't you start a journal in the Routines and progress section? I would love to follow your progress and I am sure other members of this forum would be very interested in your approach to hanging.
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You've got my interest piqued, that's for sure. Is there somewhere I can read/research more about the vacuum hanger? If it's comfortable enough to wear for extended periods of time, that would be very attractive to me.
Thank you for the detailed post and your success :cool:
Thank you for the detailed post and your success :cool:
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Big Schwanz Acht;711139 said:
The downside is that since it is a vacuum hanger he might reach a maximum hanging weight before a compression hanger would. But then again the dude has been a member here since 2005 and he is hitting .125" a month doing this so more power to him.
I ripped the old white sleeves that originally came with the LG hanger with regularly 15lbs, then they switched to the blue ones they sell with it now I've found have been indestructible; haven't really got to the point where I'm worried (the old white ones had a max of 25lbs I think, but wore down fast). Some discussion on other boards say the new blue ones can go up to 30lbs.
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