I gained .75” during my first 4-5 months of hanging. Perhaps I could have gained more, but I am pretty conservative / cautious; I have heard of other guys gaining more/faster. I quit PE due to a series of injuries & came back somehow down to my original size. Sporadic periods of PE, for a few weeks at a time, followed by weeks of breaks may have also ended up making me smaller, I am not sure. My flaccid was tiny again too after a very, very long decon break.. literally back down to less than 3”, when at one point it was around to 4.5” (freaky, I know).
I regained .5” after just 2 months of returning to PE. My flaccid is back up from 2.5” or 3” to about 4.25”. I believe I have gained more during my 3rd month, but I wont measure for a few more weeks. In total I have around a year of hanging experience, but I was so inconsistent it ruined things. I am being consistent now though, so the gains are coming. Part of my improvement is due to dropping caffiene & taking supplements, but most is just from PE.
Originally I was also doing 8x sets per day, BTC. Currently I’m just doing 6x sets per day, BTC. I find I can’t hang much weight at BTC, currently my maximum is just 10lbs (I started at 2.5lbs originally, and it took 5 months to reach 8lbs BTC). I held the line this time with less sets, so my maximum weight rose faster. I am hoping a lot of hanging in the 10-20lb range will give me better gains over the course of this coming year.
Overall though, I have always been happy at the rate of gains hanging has given me. Even 1/8” or 1/16” in BPEL gains per month will eventually give some pretty amazing results long term.