Hanging vs. Manual stretching

Could someone explain to me why some say hang everyday and hang through fatigue? Then when it comes to manual stretching they say take days off. Why not manual stretch everyday? Those are questions I always thought about because some guys gain stretching every day with both methods but I need an explaination to be clear.

There is nothing wrong with stretching daily. Some suggest doing more than one session per day. For others, stretching has an adverse effect on EQ.

Ok lets say that stretching hardly affects your EQ but your ligs may be a little sore when stretching. Is that a sign to take the day off even though your EQ is hardly affected? It kind of seems like my EQ is almost unaffected by stretching even though I go intense on them but ligs are somewhat fatigued or sore after a workout. I can do an intense stretching routine and get a good hard erection afterward if I wanted. Some say its overtraining if you go while you haven’t completely recovered from the previous workout but some hangers PE anyway and have made great gains from it. This is the part that confuses me. Hope it makes sense.

You can use more force with your hands than hanging (although not necessarily you should).

My interpretation into what marinera said would be. People can hang without rest days when they use a lighter weight. But if you do the equivalent manual stretching with a hanging weight it would be quite heavy, probably shorter sets causing great fatigue quickly which you would want to take rest days from.

Sed, I had the exact same quandaries. After switching to hanging, I tend to hang every day unless my ligaments are really sore I may take a rest day or use a much lighter weight.

The thing is, because bib claimed such crazy good gains by hanging so often, everyone is trying to imitate him in some way. I’m sure you could make just as good gains so long as you keep getting a good work out and become fatigued then take rest days. I’m basically doing that now, so we will see how it goes.

I am one of Bib’s grasshopper. LOL. I find it interesting that Bib did not hang every day and took rest days, but now he advises all his hanger’s to hang every day. Reason being: When you rest, you are allowing your previous work to harden tougher. The collagenous tissue gets weakened and deformed when we hang. When it rests for a day or more, the cells reproduce stronger than before, making it harder to deform them. By hanging every day, any adhesions or new cells that are growing in get pulled out and the penile tissue and ligs remain weakened, allowing for more growth. I used to take rest days, but no more and my gains have backed up the daily hanging theory.

Sounds interesting I wonder for those guys who never take days off of manual stretching do this. Working even when sore but lighter stretching.

Can’t answer that one. I know when I did manual stretching, I was never consistent which is why I never gained. Hanging has been my greatest method of gains. I don’t see why it would be much different though with manual vs. hanging. Collagenous tissue is collagenous tissue.

If you work hard and obtain fatigue, if a day off from your normal hanging routine takes place that is the exact time that you will plateau. The reason is common sense in that is when the body will heal and produce stronger tissues.

Avoid days off and if you do have a day off (life happens) an ADS is a handy thing to get you over that time period. In the words of Big Girtha: “Never let it turtle.”

Makes perfect sense that tissues become stronger after healing but some people say that’s when the growth occurs which makes it even more confusing. lol But if something is constantly stressed it will have to adapt somehow which is why everyday works for some. I got my gains doing 1 on 1 off but I always wondered if somehow on the other side if i could gain more with more days on because they have slowed down and I need a boost.

Well perhaps I didn’t go far enough. In the last of the 4 phases of the healing process the tissues are not only strengthened by new collagen but the new collagne will attempt to return the tissues to the normal or original length by shrinking. That is what will tighten a sprained joint back to fully functional condition with additional strength.

I know there a some here on Thunders that profess that breaks are necessary for growth but they are confused about muscle development as opposed to cartilage, ligament, and tendon growth or repair. The two are quite different and need to be approached differently. If you want stronger ligaments and tendons then, yes breaks will develop them in that direction. We on the other hand want to create a permanent distortion of the those tissues and that means a different approach.

If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

By the way, pulling on connective tissue that it’s not healed yet is what causes overproduction of new scar tissue. Try thinking as you were pulling apart everyday borders of a wound - what it would give?

Another good connection. Do you think if I did one day of BTC stretching and the next day stretch to both sides behind the leg would work since I’m not stretching the same way everyday but still stretching at least? I’m not gaining on my old routine anymore.

That still fits the divide and concur principle. I should think that would work as well as doing multiple angles in the same day but remember that what you trying to do by doing things that way is to weaken the outer layers so the majority can be stretched easier.

Sorry for the hijack - Just a quick question, though. This doesn’t apply to girth gains, correct? Seeing as how girth doesn’t come from ligs and tendons? Just a quick right or wrong, will do.