Hanging but not feeling stretch

Hey all,

I’ve been hanging for about a month now and worked my way up to 5.5 pounds, but I still don’t feel any stretch in my ligs. I hang SD while sitting down and I use a captain’s wench. Hanging for 15 minute sets with 10 minute breaks in between, I still don’t feel any stretch in my ligs. Is this normal? What should I be aiming for?

Thanks for your help!

It could be for you. Try hanging BTC and see if you can feel it then.

In some ways it’s positive, at least you aren’t feeling skin stretch.

Yes try the btc angle like mems said and try going up with the weight a little and having 5 minutes break so the unit as always got strain on. When I was hanging I never needed ten minutes break give the unit a roll in the hands an a slap on the leg after 5 minutes you should be fine.

I keep hearing about hanging, but I know that it is not necessary for length gains. I stick to jelqing and clamping. Do what works though.

Thanks for all of your advice, I’ll keep trying, up the weight a bit, and reduce my breaks and see how it goes.

I just started hanging BTC today, and I felt the stretch increasing from set 1 throughout set 3. Using my own home made hanger.

17x3 (10min breaks)

For me, the big “aha” moment came when I stopped using cloth with my wrap, and used two clamps (I also have a Capn’s Wench). Cloth, while more comfortable/less irritating, always caused inconsistencies with my wrap. Theraband-only is grippier on the penis and lets me clamp TIGHT.

Using two clamps also prevents slippage and ensures you’re gripping the penis structure, not just the skin (I’m uncut, so this was a problem for me).

Hey,

So I’m new here and I would like a little bit of help.

I started hanging 2.5 months ago after watching a Leo and longevity video. When I started it all went well, I was hanging BTC with the lowest weight possible and feeling a stretch in my ligament and was carefully adding weight every 2 weeks.

I gained 1 cm in length but the problem is that I reached a point when even using a BTC angle I don’t feel a stretch anymore so I tried to add more weight and after that lowering the weight but there was no change at all.

I feel that my dick is taking all the weight and I don’t know what to do.

Have you ever manually stretched? If you have, you may have felt the same ligament pull, without hanging. Just because you don’t feel it, doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Ligaments don’t have the nerve endings that regular tissue does. When we feel a ligament pull, it’s actually the attachments moving that we feel. Not the ligaments themselves.

There’s no need to increase weight, simply because you don’t feel it. Have you looked up strain and how to calculate it? When your measurements halt progress is the time to either increase weight or take a deconditioning break based on strain. Strain calculations tell you how much weight to use.

I’m not gonna explain all of that. There’s pages upon pages, and threads upon threads; doing just that. You need to search some more. There is no “one size fits all” answer. You must properly measure and calculate.

Okay thanks, I think I’ll first try a deconditioning break of one week.

@Biggy

I highly recommend reading 5.5squared log about hanging. It’s called Hanging With Fire and in my opinion should be the only hanging info on here.

Just hang in there ;) keep applying extra weight carefully until you feel it so you usually feel the ligament tugs at the base?

Hey,

So I took a 2 week deconditioning break and I started hanging again today (I just finished the session) and still I’m not able to feel the lig stretch.

I think that I’m not feeling the stretch anymore cause it’s already fully stretched and I need to stretch the other ligaments in the area to be able to work again on the suspensory ligament in BTC but the problem is that I don’t know how to stretch the other ligaments.

Can someone indicate me which position is better to stretch the other ones?

You might be attaching your hanger too far back, which will stretch the skin instead of ligaments. While some skin stretching is necessary, it’s not necessary to directly target the skin because it will stretch on it’s own.