Stretching vs.hanging

Lately I’ve been reading up on hanging and I noticed that hangers like to hang even while the ligs are sore. The reason why they do this is to keep the microtears open longer and because they don’t want to heal up completely since that would just cause the ligs to bundle up and strengthen rather than lengthen.

So why is it that when we do manual stretches we are told not to stretch when we are sore? I usually hear that we should let our dick heal before we start pulling on it again in regards to manual stretching, why the two different methods when same goal is desired?

Well, the entire microtears vs actual growth theory is up for discussion - I’m not sure there is a final verdict on that. There are different schools on how to get the gains, and it seems to me that hangers in general just have decided “f#ck it, lets see how far this can stretch!”. Some hangers talk about waiting longer the heavier the routine and NOT hang no matter what. No clear answer to give you, other than that possibly those with a more careful attitude never venture into hanging?

Where have you read not to stretch when sore?

Thats what I was going to say!

Actually, you will read quite the opposite here. Letting your unit heal before stretching again makes gaining length harder.

Yep. You don’t want those micro tears healing completely, definatly not.

I don’t get you guys! Stretching vs. Hanging! It’s like asking what is better pulling an object or pushing an object. It doesn’t matter as long “the object” moves. For hanging you need equipment but your hands are free with stretching you need to use your hands so you can’t do much else. The bottom line is: use whatever you think it will serve you better.

Maybe I didn’t read that anywhere.But for some reason I thought I had. Sorry for the misguided question.

No, it’s really not!