Originally Posted by qntrnar
It takes 10 years to change all the cells in your body, so you can consider that after 8 years your penis is actually a new one.
I was thinking thinking something similar myself. I’m hoping it might mean relatively fast gains are possible. But also worried that if my tunica was strengthened by the exercise that it might have stayed that way permanently.
I’d love to think that I can expect something similar to newbie gains but I’m not sure it’s going to be that easy.
I don’t know what the thinking around the subject is now but I always assumed a big part of newbie gains came from pulling out the inner penis and cementing it so that it stays out. Which would mean growth through mitosis might be a pretty minor part of the whole thing.
I’m not sure if my thinking and my theories are obsolete but from what I’ve been reading I think things are pretty much the same?
When I was last here it seems that people thought the sky was the limit but coming back it looks like a 2” gain is considered more or less the maximum a guy can expect.
I was going to stick with just the newbie routine to see what it might get me, but I’ve since also been using a Penimaster for an ADS.
I’m basically going to be doing both the newbie routine and just using my Penimaster as much as I can at all other times. Mostly because I don’t have too much faith in being able to make any more gains, so I’m worried that using just the newbie routine might waste time when I could be using both.
If after say six months there’s no meaningful improvement, I guess I might start hanging again to see if that makes any difference. If not, I guess I’ll just call it and be on my way.
Originally Posted by morbo34
can i ask how was your routine??
Yeah, sure. When I joined one of the theories was that plasticity was the key to gains (which I’m pretty sure has been disproven) and as I had the time to do it, I just thought I’d use traction as close to 24/7 as possible. I figured if plasticity was the key I’d get the gains I wanted that way, and if not, then traction/hanging 24/7 should work anyway.
Unless I’m a super-hard gainer with an adamantium unit I can say the whole plasticity theory should be disregarded; it was on its way out when I arrived but I thought I’d give it a try because I had the time to do so. But it’s something to be discarded, if it had validity with the amount I hung, my dick should be dragging on the floor.
But yeah, it was literally time and sheer pig-headedness. My approach was neither subtle nor nuanced, it was literally just to hang weights as close to 24/7 as possible only taking breaks when I was physically unable to continue.
I was trying to get to the goldilocks zone in terms of weight that the old-school hangers used to report but even though I was increasing the weight all I saw were slowing gains. I took decon breaks and they did seem to make a small difference but the gains I was seeing were still barely anything and slowed down again quickly.
Also, when I got to the much higher weights I found that the clasp on the hanger I was using wasn’t strong enough to hold the clamp shut at the weights some of the old school hangers were claiming and I started using a carpenters clamp to keep the hanger closed. That lead me to believe that, unless they were using modified hangers, maybe some of those guys were just bullshitting each other as to what they were hanging.
Long story short, when it comes to hanging less is more. Gains come slow and there’s no changing that, you can’t get faster gains by increasing weight, you just risk more injury and risk the whole collagen production that’ll stop your gains outright (or at least I believe that was the theory). If you start to gain through hanging, stick at that weight until the gains stop. Then either take a decon break and start again at that weight or maybe increase. I don’t know what the recommendation is with regards that now, as I just went all out. But this time around I’m going to be doing it the proper sensible way, steadily, consistently, a bit at a time and not trying to rush things.
Also, I should add I screwed my back up with all the hanging. I was in a lot of pain and couldn’t bend forward for quite some time. I had to do quite a lot of yoga and lots of split stretches and stretch routines to get my back re-aligned. I strongly recommend against heavy hanging. I don’t really think any kind of hanging is actually that great.