3rd day of hanging.. questions

Ok, I’m wondering how often should I hang a day? 40 min or 60 min. Also, do I have to jelq right afterwards? What’s the connection between jelqing and hanging. Lastly, I’m having a hard time figuring out LOT, I don’t notice much tugback at a few angles, seems like 6 is a good choice, but I don’t know for sure. Also, my hanger is like 1/4 inch from my head, is that good? I’m currently hanging 6 lbs using the Captains Wench. Thanks.

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Thats alot for a third day.

Hi there Supremeone,

You should hang with the most intensity for the most time that is confortable for you. I know, vague. Let me explain. There are people who have the privacy/time/whatever to hang hours and hours per day. There are other people who are only able to hang one, two hours at most (and probably not all days). Whatever the time you have, you should hang to the point of fatigue IMHO. But not now, when you just begun. You have to accomodate to those stresses, gently and patiently. So at first start with 3 sets of 20 minutes with 10 minutes rest in between. Light weights. Get the hang of it (so to speak). Then when you feel that you’ve got all the variables pinned down (hanger position, wrap, tightness, etc) you can start increasing weight, by small increments. For instance, when I started with the big hanger, I started for 3 sets of 20 minutes with 2Kg (~4.4 lbs), 2-3 times per week. Now I’m hanging 6 days per week, 5-6 sets of 20 minutes with 10Kg (22 lbs). I add weight about every two weeks or when I feel that the weight I’m using is not stressing the ligs/tunica anymore.

IMHO you shoud concentrate first on one thing, length or girth. That way your focus is less dispersed and you’ll be able to make better gains. As you probably know jelqing builds mainly girth, hanging builds length. There’s nothing wrong with doing one after the other. It could even be beneficial to stretch lateraly the tissues lengthened by the hanging, to do a couple of light jelqs. But it’s IMHO that you shouldn’t do a full-steam routine of jelqs (or other girth exercises) after hanging, or vice-versa.

I noticed today a new article explaining the LOT theory. You should have a look at it. As for the hanguer position, whatever works for you. When first starting you should experiment with light weights, the different hanger positions, to see which is more confortable to you.

HTH,

Ok, I’ve read it. I can’t be 100% sure but I think my LOT is pretty low like 6 or 7. Now, the LOT theory says I should hang at higher lots? I thought BTC was better and thats at a lower LOT. I confused :o

Supreme,

If your LOT is 6-7, you need to hang at the upper angles, from SO to OTS.

Bigger

What’s SO?

Straight Out.

Supreme,

SO= straight out.

Bigger

Cool, so jelqing builds girth. Don’t Util’s do as well? Not sure if i should be worried about that, because if I was doing girth exercises as well, in 6 months I’d be happy with that and my length.

Btw, UIshrike thats impressive. I don’t think i’ll ever be able to hang 22 lbs, what are your gains or current length status?

Is that UIShrike from the old EZ boards? I remember that guy…

Supre,
A lot of guys find it more beneficial to focus on one thing at a time - usually length first, girth second.
If you have limited time, spending it in a more concentrated manner will yield better/faster results.
Reach one goal (length) and move on to the next (girth).

-Cap

Current stats are 20 cm (~7.9”) BPEL x 14 cm (~5.5”) EGMS. Which indicates that I still lost size from the last time I measured (Jan-04, 8.2” x 6”). I don’t know what’s wrong. Ever since I had my big loss, around March 2003, when I had stopped PEing 6 months before - lost 0.7” in length and 0.4” in girth) - that I’m not able to gain whatever I do. I’ll be keeping with my current routine of hanging, though I don’t for how long if I don’t see improvements. This is my last chance, if it doesn’t work PE is history for me.

Yep, it’s still me. I’ve been on this for quite some years, hem? Probably not as many as BIB, Thunder and others, but I’m from the old days of the EZBoard.

UIShrike,

Before you had your big loss last year, what was your primary method for gaining length?

Also, have you put in as much time on your current routine as the one you used when your gains peaked out?

Doesn’t jelqing help cement gains? :(

Chickenchoker,

Hanging was my primary method of working out. And I just hanged, nothing more, no girth work, nothing. Just hanging. Then I had to stop for several reasons, and 6 months later I was with 1/4 of my total gains lost.

More even. Just as an example on the previous 6 months to my first layoff I did an average of 200 minutes of hanging time per month. In April 2004 alone I did 800 minutes, and I’m already with 240 this month and we’ve only just begun. And I’ve lost size.

I’m sure open to the views and opinions of all, specially Bib’s if he’d chime in.

Thanks.