Originally Posted by Kojack10
Vkn1, you may be right, permanent elongation may begin to occur after reaching a strain of a certain percentage. Even though we are stretching other tissues besides the ligs, collagen is still a main factor.It is very possible that the 5.1% threshold will not apply to these other tissues, but I’d put money that it will be between 2% and 7%, since ligaments fail/tear at strains of about 8 - 10%.
I have an idea for actually testing this myself. I will measure my FSBPL before starting a routine. I will measure right after each PE session. After my FSBPL has increased by 5%, I will take a deconditioning break. By measuring the strain so frequently, I will be able to tell if the amount of weight that I am using, or the amount of “time” is producing enough strain/elongation each session. If I’m not seeing at least 1 mm increase after a session, how could I expect to reach a total increase of 5% after many days.
If some permanent increase in my FSBPL in seen after deconditioning, I may opt to shoot for only 4% next time. By doing this it may be possible to find the lowest increase in elongation that causes some “permanent elongation”.
Basically, I still believe that we have to cross a threshold before anything permanent occurs. Other than that, we are just utilizing the elastic ability of connective tissue. I believe that total time under tension will play an important role in the outcome of what happens in the connective tissue.
Sorry, I worded that badly. By different “materials” there I actually meant ligs vs tunica. People were talking about the two as if they were apples and oranges, with notion that the strain idea gets thrown off by this, but I was thinking more along lines that you are in sense that I assume both ligs and tunica are both basically made of collagen, only tunica is woven and oriented and stuff in manner that makes it much tougher to achieve the same strain in. But that 5.1% lengthening of tunica would produce same persistent “growth” as 5.1% lengthening of something like ligs.
In other words, I was just trying to point out that maybe just focusing on achieving 5.1% strain in the whole dick structure including everything would result in growth and that you didn’t need to think about the constituent components of the structure. If one component stops stretching anymore or something, well then if you’re still putting 5.1% strain into the structure, then some other collagen-composed component of the structure is getting elongated to a degree (the 5.1% strain) that will result in growth.