Take stretching to the next level (How to measure when stretching!)

Brawn Johnson

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A PROBLEM!

Many of us here are stretchers, whether by hand or using the Lengthmaster, and all of us face one, big problem. Unlike hanging, where you know what weight you're using and you know exactly how long you're using it for, stretching leaves us kind of in the dark about exactly what we're doing. We don't know how hard we're pulling, we don't know how much force we're applying. Stretching "hard" or even "as hard as you can" for 30 seconds is like going into the gym to do 15 squats... but you don't know how much weight is on the bar. Was that a useful set of squats? How could you possibly know? In resistance training, you at least have the feedback from your muscles to guide you in hindsight. If it took everything I had to make that 15th rep, then in hindsight it was a good set. But with stretching we don't have anything like that.

So we face a serious problem when we're analyzing our own routines, and especially the routines of others. When someone writes on the forum that they've been doing their manual stretching for 16 months with no results, we don't know if they're barely pulling at all, or if they're hurting themselves because they're 5lbs of pressure away from ripping their dicks off every time they sit down for PE!

But this problem may be worse than that. The general consensus in the hanging community seems to be that progressive overload is an important element for actually seeing results. That means that the hangers seem to be getting the best results when they gradually increase the tension over time. They can only do that because they know precisely how much tension they're applying each time. They aren't doing this blindly, like we stretchers are!

This gets dicey for us because hanging and stretching are essentially the exact same mechanic: apply tension to the penis over time. The only difference is that hangers are applying (usually) less tension for much longer periods of time, while stretchers are applying (probably) much more tension for much shorter periods of time. Do we know that this difference means the principle of progressive overload applies to one method but not the other? If the exercise analogy holds, it probably applies either to both or neither!

So even a stretcher is applying enough but not too much tension, he may be getting sub optimal results simply because he hasn't been using progressive overload. Up to this point, he hasn't been able to!

A SOLUTION!

There is no reason we can't stretch with the same measured precision that hangers have. Luggage scales are cheap. This one from Home Depot costs $7. Hook that to the bundle chamber from the Lengthmaster and you can now measure exactly how much force you're applying every time you stretch. When you take your notes, you don't just know how many sets of how many reps... you know how much weight you used. :)

Now you're free to apply progressive overload. (Has that ever been tested in stretching?) Now when people write in saying they haven't gotten results stretching, we can actually have some idea what they really mean when they say they stretch. Now we can find out if some people who get great results with stretching happen to be applying some "proper" range of force that those who get no results are outside of.
 
I was gonna say fish scale would show you exactly how much weight you’re using or resistancScale would show you exactly how much weight you’re using or resistance. @Lightning did some studies using different scales with the Bathmate and Penomet. So accurate weight or resistance can be easily translated through the methods you have mentioned above. At one time we’re going to put a resistance meter on the Lengthmaster to gauge work but we never could figure a proper way to do it. But I agree with what you said as far is routine’s, stretching and tools go, if we can’t can’t express how much intensity we are using it’s hard for others to translate that to their own work out. I like where you’re going with us and hopefully we can nail down some serious ways to gauge intensity across the board.
 
A built-in meter on the Lengthmaster itself would be pretty swank, and especially if you could adjust it to face different directions it would be the easiest to actually read while stretching.

I'm going to just hook a luggage scale to the nylon strap on the bundle chamber and get started with that. (As soon as I have a bundle chamber, that is. Plenty of people here already have one, and can get started playing with this sooner than I will!)

This won't get really interesting until lots of people are measuring the tension and making note of it in their progress logs. Right now I wouldn't even know what range to aim for if I could measure! So hop on it, guys! The idea might need some tinkering in practice, but this kind of data is essential.
 
A built-in meter on the Lengthmaster itself would be pretty swank, and especially if you could adjust it to face different directions it would be the easiest to actually read while stretching.

I'm going to just hook a luggage scale to the nylon strap on the bundle chamber and get started with that. (As soon as I have a bundle chamber, that is. Plenty of people here already have one, and can get started playing with this sooner than I will!)

This won't get really interesting until lots of people are measuring the tension and making note of it in their progress logs. Right now I wouldn't even know what range to aim for if I could measure! So hop on it, guys! The idea might need some tinkering in practice, but this kind of data is essential.


I agree. If you or anyone else has ideas about how to add a pressure gauge, or intensity gauge to the Lengthmaster it would be an awesome contribution!
 
I agree. If you or anyone else has ideas about how to add a pressure gauge, or intensity gauge to the Lengthmaster it would be an awesome contribution!

@Lightning
 
Alright, gentlemen, all the parts have arrived. I've attached a couple pics just to show the 'first draft' of this idea. I couldn't pull very hard for this because I still have no idea how to wrap for the bundle chamber, but as you can see the pieces go together quite well. Using hands and feet, you can stretch in any direction now and know exactly how much tension you're putting on the penis.

What I love about this scale is the 'target hand.' In the first picture, you can see a red arrow and a black arrow. The red arrow actually tells you what the scale is measuring, and the black arrow you set to whatever weight you want to target. This is really handy and something everyone should have on their scale, because it's much easier to just check whether the arrows match up than it is to try to read those little numbers while you're stretching. VERY useful feature!

The only adjustment I think I might make at this point is to sew the webbing on the bundle chamber together near the bottom so that I can shorten the entire chain as much as possible. That would just make the current scale a little more convenient, but I could easily do without and I still have an electronic scale to try that is itself a lot shorter.

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@Lightning

Wow I love that you made this post. How much stretch can you get out of the Lengthmaster at full stretch with that scale? I mean how many pounds of intensity are you able to use? I hope you understand what I mean LOL
 
All in the gallery here at MOS
 
Gallery hotlinked?
 
No I’m asking if we should hotlink the word gallery
 
I like the idea of having a way to measure the force (intensity) using the LengthMaster for manual stretches. I just don't comprehend how putting the scale after the LengthMaster will get an accurate measurement of tension when doing manual stretches...
 
I like the idea of having a way to measure the force (intensity) using the LengthMaster for manual stretches. I just don't comprehend how putting the scale after the LengthMaster will get an accurate measurement of tension when doing manual stretches...

Doesn’t the scale show how much weight or force is being used?
 
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