Heating while hanging

I remember reading awhile back in one of Bib’s posts (I think), about heating for half the sets. I personally feel better heating for the entire set, but was wondering what the rationale is for heating for only half of the set. Please indulge this train of thought, and I apologize if this has been discussed to death, I don’t know if it has or not. Also apologize if I misunderstood completely.

Heating for half the set-
Thinking about this a little more - if the ligs become more elastic at higher temperatures, then heating throughout the set makes more sense. Although, if one heats for say, the first 10 minutes of a 20 minute set, then removes heat… It may allow the ligs to cool in a lengthened state, which might induce a more permananent stretch/deformation? I am somehow relating it in my mind to a blacksmith quenching steel, cooling it quickly so that it retains it shape.

Heating for entire set-
But, if heating for the entire 20 minutes, it stands to reason that the ligs would continue to rise or stay at a certain temperature, which would induce them to stretch further, and the longer the stretch the greater the deformation. The downside of this might be that after the stretch is done, the ligs are still warm, and being more elastic might more easily return to their previous state.

Please comment on my understanding here, I really like to visualize what is going on as motivation for doing the actual work :P

-supa

This may be what you want.

Heated Bib Hanger

Thanks a lot for the quick reply twatteaser!

I read through all of these, and while I found that a lot of people did heat for only the first half of each set, I couldn’t seem to find exactly what I wanted to know.

Let me ask this (maybe a little clearer)

Assuming a pre-hang warmup - Is heating for only the first half of each set preferable to heating for the entire set, and if so why? Assuming equal levels of comfort, I just want to know the reasoning behind it. I tried to come up with an explanation above, but there is probably another explanation or a better one.

I generally heat the whole set, but am not sure this is the best approach …

Has anyone tried cooling?

As in: When I cooled by dick with an icepack, it shrunk 2 inches. Ergo: heating is the way to go.

I have the same reservations towards heating.
I don’t want it to feel comfortable and more elastic.
It must be sturdy, so all those fibres will rupture sooner.

IMO, it’s better to heat the whole time - including breaks between sets if desired - except for the last set. During the last set allow the tissue to air cool or apply a cold pack

My reasoning is that it takes several minutes for the tissue to warm up. If you apply heat for half your set, that’s only 7-10 minutes. Less than that will be spent at the desired temperature.

I have been rolling over in my mind some way of containing the heating within the wrap. So far I have come up with nothing conclusive.

Heating elements? no, too dangerous

A thin layer of heated rice between to layers of ace bandage joined with stretchable thread? maybe

Anyone got some ideas?

I have a wrap around gel-heat pad that I wrap around the base of my dick below my BIB all the way to the base. This works well for me…

The methodology behind only using heat for the first half is that the tissues will cool in the expanded state….

Eithher way, make sure you use heat at least the first half of sets.

Super

I live in an apartment complex with a pool (unheated) and a hot tub. (Heated to about 106) I just finished doing my warm-up and stretches, like always in the hot tub. Then I come up to my apartment and hang while reading the forum. I’m sitting here hanging 12lb at the 12:00 position with a pulley under my desk and a heating pad wrapped around my hanger. I do three twenty min sets dry jelking in-between. When I finish my hanging I Massage and pump up to 5hg, put a robe on over my tube and go down to the hot wearing the tube under the hot water for 15 minutes. Then I jump into the frigid pool to shock the tissues. Then I rewrap in a loose comfortable traction wrap and go to bed. I do a lot of other things so I can’t contribute my gains to only this. But I’ve made some pretty amazing flaccid gains since I’ve started this. Do you think this might be working off the principals you mention in your thread?

Girth,

you said no to heating elements. I Don’t know why.

You could use a low voltage using a transformer, say 12V.
Electronic stores sell heating-wire. You could superglue it to the inside of your hanger, and connect it with a plug to your 12V source.

If it gets to hot you turn it off. Or use a dimmer. 12V is fairly safe….

I cannot and will not test it with my hanger: it’s a flexible Uli-hanger, so the wire would snap. And I don’t believe the heat-thing.

Cool, flip! I was wondering if there is some way.

Hey, Bib! Come out with a heated version that has a plug in on the side, a cord with an adjustment knob, an AC/DC transformer for home and a car adapter! Charge an extra $60-100 for it.

I may try to work one on my Captain’s Wench.

Sure would solve the heat situation.

supasonic,

What you wrote was exactly my thinking on the heating issue. As far as only heating for the first half of a set, my idea was that the tissues would attain max temp, and the max expansion within the first ten minutes or so. Then the last ten minutes they would cool down while still extended. Then the next set would build on the previous set.

But I do not think there would be much if any difference if you heated for the entire set. I do think you need to hang your last few sets with no heat, allowing the tissues to return to normal temp while extended.

Bigger

I’m still unclear on the cooling. Are we talking ice packs?
I know this is all subject to personal prefences but examples and suggestions would be very helpful.
This is what I do for hanging:
after warm-up
3 sets-
hang weight for 20 min
apply heat for first 10 min
10 minute intervals between sets

When would be the best, if at all, to apply cooling? Specifically please.

Last questions, Is it okay to do jelqing and squezes right after you finish hanging? Or is it best to space it out more? And where does cooling come into the picture for your jelqing and squuezing?

Ram,

I never used anything to cool down. I just hung without added heat.

I always lightly jelqed for a few minutes after the end of my session.

Bigger

Bib -

You, and your hanger, are awesome :) Thanks for the reply, I have altered my routine a bit to allow some air cooling towards the end of the sets. Also thanks to big black stick et al. for their responses, this really helps me justify courses of action and stick to them.

That’s a pretty interesting routine. Do you heat the entire time while hanging? If so, you might consider letting it air cool for the last sets as Bib suggests. What I find intriguing is you are literally “quenching” while pumped. I don’t know if girth gains can be cemented in quite the same way, but it’s possible … I feel like the ligs are a more rigid structure anyway, being less elastic, so might be more amenable to being frozen. Regarding softer tissues, they have a relatively higher elasticity, and the cold effect might cause shrinkage more than “cementing”? When you jump in the cold water does your penis remain in a pumped state?

Ponder penis forging … the bib is my HAMMAH!

> I don’t know if girth gains can be cemented in quite the same way, but it’s possible … I feel like the ligs are a more rigid structure anyway, being less elastic, so might be more amenable to being frozen.

Icing toward the end of a stretching session (while still applying tension) is one protocol for treating joint contractures.