Originally Posted by joe123452
I hope someone can help answer my questions:
- Hanging the heavy weight hurts my balls sometimes. Why is this?
- For the hanging with fIRE plan am I supposed to work my way up slowly to the 0.1 mpa weight (adding weight week by week) that was calculated in the load calculator or do I start heating at that weight?
- My heating unit is a t-shirt that I soak with hot water repeatedly while I stand in the tub lmao. Is this unviable even if it reaches a temperature of 104° F? If unviable, can anyone send me any heating pad recommendations?
- How important is it to maintain tension as in can I halt tension in order to add more weight to my unit?
- When I apply weight to the total-man and my penis stretches, the silicon sleeve diameter becomes too large and the vac seal breaks. How can I stop this?
-I’m not sure why your testicles hurt. Might be the weight hanging angle. Try repositioning maybe.
-My understanding of the technique is to use as little weight and time as needed to get the target elongation rate. So once you are conditioned (meaning have your technique down and the tissues that interface with the setup are conditioned) then your strain rate is the indicator if you are using enough weight and/or time. So track that and make adjustments accordingly. Once your strain/elongation rates start to consistently fall below your target then you either have to increase weight, time under tension or take a decon break to let the tissue soften up again.
-A hot wet t-shirt sounds pretty inefficient and messy and certainly isn’t going to heat up the inner structures to target temp. Despite the questionable nature of IR heating pads, you can at least know that they get and stay hot and the point is to heat up the tissues and keep them hot during that portion of the session. I say go ahead and invest a little in one. The TM is pretty convenient in terms of size but other guys have found other ones they think are as good or better. You can search around the forum for IR heating pads to see which one you want.
-I don’t think it is that important to keep continuous tension. There is a school of thought that intermittent tension is actually more effective at stimulating new collagen formation under linear strain. So many guys release tension for 15-30 seconds every minute or two as a growth stimulator. I’m not sure if that works or not but I do think we can presume it is ok to release tension long enough to wrap with a heating pad or add weight.
- Cut a short segment of sleeve to put just behind your glans along your shaft, maybe 1.5-2 inches long. Then roll the main sleeve attached to the cup over it. It will add some bulk and grip.
Along this line, get on the TM video library and search "Water Protection Trick." It is the best way I’ve found to vacuum hang. No taping, almost no fuss, takes way less time to setup, no issue in removing it to use the bathroom since you can put it right back in seconds and I’ve never had a blister since I’ve started doing it. When taping I was getting a blister at least once or twice a month. Mike from TM has a great technique, also uses extra sleeve sections to seal up the cup so will also solve the sleeve stretching issue for you.
Good luck!