Hangers.

I just started hanging, do you do other manuel exercises like jelqing as well? Or do you just hang? Thank You!

I moved this to the appropriate forum dlm. You could have put it here yourself, you have the time in.

In my opinion, just hang.

Which hanger are you using? Don’t jelq before you hang as you don’t want extra blood in your dick. I do like to do some stretches/squeezes in between my sets to get the blood circulating again. But if you put as much time as is recommended into hanging, I wouldn’t worry much about manual exercises like DB said.

Read as much as possible about hanging, that is the key. That and fatigue.

I am using a homemade bib type of hanger. Seems to be doing the job right now. Starting out with 5lbs doing three sets of fifteen minutes a day. Right now Im basically doing BTC. What is the actual recomended time? I have read so much that my mind is swimming. I have heard that if you dont do at least 10hrs a week not to bother. Is that acurate? I know to start slow, but is the goal to hang as much as possible later in the game? Thank you so much for your help!

Everyone is different, so there is no exact time to shoot for. But many members say that you need to put in a whole lot of time to break down your ligs and gain. I definitely liked the “less weight, more time” approach. Don’t be too eager to hit fatigue, many members (including myself) have been so eager to hit fatigue that they will prematurely jump up in weight just to hit it. Think of the beginning of hanging as getting used to the hanger and prepping for higher weights. Practice wrapping and hanging style a lot, I ended up giving up the bib for a vac hanger when I increased the weight because of bad technique.

Hanging is NOT a weight lifting contest. It’s better if you can get the same fatigue with lower weights and more time, that way you can save the higher weights for later if you want to gain more.

No, the goal isn’t hang as much as possible. The goal is to hang the minimal amount of weight that can give you results; you don’t want to become a penis-powerlifter, you want a longer penis, right?

I think also 5 lbs could be too much for a beginner. About time: you should do 6 sets of 20 minutes daily - this is the most advised minimal time; however, there are guys who gained with less time x day hanging.

You should hang at least three times x week; some believes you shouldn’t have rest days when hanging, some others (like me) believes it’s better to have rest days IF you are hanging (relatively) high weights.

Some start with 5, some start with 2.5.

I started with 5 because I have been doing some pretty intense stretching for the last year. I feel like I could start with more, but I have learned over the year to not over do it. How often should I increase weight and or time. Also, I keep reading that hanging causes discoloration. Is this true, and if it is, is there anything that can be done about it? Where do most people get the discoloration at? I think the more I read the more questions I have. Thanks again for every ones help!

It’s not so much about the stretching as it is about tissue soreness. You can have well conditioned ligaments, but if you are clamping your dick in a hanger like you’ve never done before, trust me your skin is going to get pretty sore. Find the wrap the works best for you to help with this, try different ones. I got a little discoloration on my glans, but I think you usually get blotched discoloration on your shaft where you attach the hanger. I’m sure you could find some discoloration pictures with a search. Use plenty of heat and restore circulation often to help, but that wont guarantee anything. Usually the discoloration goes away after a long break from hanging.

Check out the recommended weight increases, I think it was something like going up 2.5 pounds every week or two? It’s all about how you feel, you definitely don’t want to overdo it. You should check out most of bib’s posts on hanging or even go to his forum which can be found at https://www.bibhanger.com

Thanks Random. Ya I have been checking out Bibs sight. How man sets a day do you do? Do you split them up morning and night? What kind of success have you had?

In my opinion, five pounds isn’t a bad starting place, especially if you’ve done a year of intense manuals. You’re probably putting at least thirty pounds of tension on your unit with the manuals - I know I do.

Start with a weight that you are comfortable with and gradually increase the number of sets each week until you are at your limit. Sets are generally twenty minutes. Ten hours a week minimum is just a guideline. Then, start increasing the weight, about a pound a week till you start hitting fatigue.

Once you start feeling fatigue during your sets, forcing you to reduce the weight, you’re in the zone. At this point, you’ll stop focusing on increasing the weight each week to instead increasing and lowering the weight in response to the fatigue you feel during your sets, all within your max weight.

Like Marinera stated, some people take rest days and others don’t. This is entirely up to you and how you feel. It’s my experience that when I took days off it took several days of subsequent hanging, with my max weight, in order to reach fatigue again, getting back into that zone. I also saw my max weight increase when I took time off, it’s as if the time off made my dick stronger.

There are many different approaches to hanging, as you can probably tell by reading the forums. This is just the approach I took.

Thank you. That was a great answer. I have a pretty good idea as what it is I need to do. The goal is to cut as much time off the learning curve as possible to be successful asap. Now let me ask about hanging angles. During a hanging session do you change up angles, or do you target one specific angle the whole time. Right now Im doing straight down and BTC because I want to get my lig gains, if there are any to be had, out of the way. Then I was planning on hanging straight out and up. My lot has actually increased from a 6 to about a 9 the last few months. Thanks Again!

One more question for you. Is an ADS recommended in between hanging times, or is this just simply over kill?

Great discussion! I also started with 5# a couple months ago, and have been working up toward 10# in 1 1/4 # increments (which is what the smallest weight plate I have weighs). I have used various hangers, AFB, Wenchette, and another home-made one from a clamp I bought for $5 at Home Depot. They all work equally well up to 10# for me, but for the life of me I can’t seem to to grab the internal structure with any of these (for all the reading I’ve done on this topic). Up to 10# the skin just bunches up below the head but that works fine for 20min sets. For this reason, I will never go over 10# until I figure it out how to grab the internal structure. But I’m hoping that 10# will be enough to get some gains. I’m doing 6-20min sets / day (3 hrs total time) 5 days a week, and manual stretching several times / day on days when I can’t hang.