first gain ever, but dilemma

Ok guys. I experienced my first gain ever last month. Can’t quite believe it - can’t even believe it now after 3 years of experimenting (albeit inconsistently) and 0.3” pops out of nowhere (flaccid bone pressed stretch). And, this is the best bit - I only hung for 720 minutes. That’s nearly half of 5 hours per week - which was my expected hang time. Ok - this month I’m going to triple hang time (hopefully) to see if I can get 0.5”, but even if I get less I’ll be happy anyway.

For those of you who don’t know, I have a low LOT - and so I’ve been hanging SO. The only difference with last month compared to the month before is that I did 99% fulcrum hanging, and only normal SO when I really couldn’t do anymore fulcrum. So that’s where the gain came from, I guess.

Anyway, this all sounds +ve so far - and believe me it is. The first night I discovered the gain I didn’t even want to record it in case my eyes were deceiving me! It was still there in the morning - and I didn’t sleep all night either with excitement.

But I have a slight dilemma. Since most of my gains in length will be tunica gains - this means that any girth increases will only hinder and perhaps even limit my forseeable length gains. My length objective is 8” nbp - but if I don’t work on girth till then I’ll have an 8 incher - w/ 4.5” of girth. Whilst I’m not too bothered about this if something can be done about it - I’m a little worried that I might get to that size and never manage to increase girth. Wondering what you guys think I should do?

Looking forward to hearing from you. :)

First, congrats on the gains!! As far as your “dilemma,” I say take what you can get. It seems like you found out what works best for you, so keep at it. Just think, if you gain 0.3” every month for the next several months, then you’ve hit gold.

Good_Knight,

Congrats, I love it when hard gainers gain, well done!

>My length objective is 8” nbp - but if I don’t work on girth till then I’ll have an 8 incher - w/ 4.5” of girth. Whilst I’m not too bothered about this if something can be done about it - I’m a little worried that I might get to that size and never manage to increase girth. Wondering what you guys think I should do<

Well that depends how much you want the girth. If you are a hardgainer, it might be best to work on length for a while longer. If you really want the girth now, then do it. I personally would not be happy with 4.5, but some would be happy to wait it out, maybe this is you, maybe not.

Dont forget that your LOT will likely rise after gaining more length, meaning you can get some length through lig stretching.

Since you are gaining now, it would be best to continue with you current routine, to cement the gains while making new ones. After a little while and hopefully more gains, you can evaluate then. But for now, I suggest you ride the fatigue and work you have already worked so hard for.

SS4

Good Knight,

I’m in a similar position to you. I’m 6x4.5 and have a low lot. I’ve decided to keep pushing for length and ignore girth for now. I’m in this for the long term, so I think I will stick by the rule book and focus on length then girth.

Good Knight

Well done for sticking with it for so long. You’ve shown strength ‘up top’ to have kept going and you’ve finally got the reward.

I hope this is a turning point for you and you continue until achieve your goals. You WILL achieve them and your recent gains proves that with the right mental attitude it can be done.