Hanging post decon questions

Update: I received my Bib hanger and I have started hanging again.

For a about a month I had been hanging 5 lbs when I could, taking a day break once every week.. . So about an hour give or take

Last week, I hung for as long as I could each day given my circumstances (the longest session day going over 2 hours total, not including the unlimited ADS wear that I try to wear)

I have started yet another week today and after receiving Bigger’s email, with instructions on how to hang, I decided I would do only a total of 1:20( one hour twenty minutes) the first week of hang time with 5 lbs and keep adding sets each week until I reach my maximum isolated time of no more than 4 hours.. In theory, since I took a long DC break and have been taking incremental DC breaks, I may be able to stimulate the ligs/fibers/muscles as if I were just starting PE. That’s a far fetch, but there are many variables going on here, so I feel like I need to start from the ground up, so as not to miss an opportunity for maximum growth— worst case scenario: I don’t gain anything until I start hanging at my original max weight or I only start gaining from continual hang time.

This is just two big questions
1: does anyone have any evidence as to why or why not I should just hang as much as I can hitting fatigue rather than taking small steps
And
2: an ADS on DC break days are a no right?

Congrats on making it this far

Really, I would read more into the hanging forum for these answers. I just go with hunches on hanging. The advanced theory, while I understand it I simply lack experience applying to answer better.

Big time lurker here, but I’ve been doing PE (hanging/clamping) for a couple of years now. I still consider myself a newb though, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

The only (very important though) reason to not start back as heavy as you can is that you’ll be risking injury. Also, I believe you’re theory on missing small incremental gains (that add up) by going straight to heavy is probably true.

If I were to go from a long decon break (I’ve found a couple weeks really weren’t enough for true deconditioning) straight to hanging heavy, I would probably start at a light weight, and increase the amount of weight every day or other day by 1lb or so until I got up to a heavier weight. It’s still not really the safest thing, but it’s safer than jumping straight back to heavy.

Good luck.

Check out my thread I posted yesterday. I’ve seen great gains in just 6months of hanging. All I know is you must hang almost everyday if you want to see gains. It’s important to get at least 10 hours of hanging per week. No less.

6 month hanging update! (1.125” length gain!)
I provided great , easy to read , details on my 6 month journey.

Thanks guys. Very helpful information.

Bigger had also said that taking DC breaks is very bad.

I’ll check out your link, GokusPecs.