Holy heck Bigger..

Bigger,

I reached what I can only describe as total fatigue to night.

I just wanted to let you know that.

It took a few sets but It come up on my unit. I dropped down in in weight in 4 different levels to 0.5kg above half my top weight.

What is one of your sayings? “your unit feels exhausted” Yeah thats how he feels right now.

Ha the thing is that fatigue tonight took a awhile to achieve but boy did it multiply itself as I pushed on through my sets while dropping the weights.

And also I know like others that you hang for hours during the day but can you recall back to those days and determine now that if you could of kept hanging after 4.30pm (say maybe privacy issues aside) do you think that you could or would off then continued hanging into the evening. Or did you come to a time out sort of thing?

GMJ

GMJ,

>I reached what I can only describe as total fatigue to night.

I just wanted to let you know that.<

Great! Is that the first time?

>And also I know like others that you hang for hours during the day but can you recall back to those days and determine now that if you could of kept hanging after 4.30pm (say maybe privacy issues aside) do you think that you could or would off then continued hanging into the evening. Or did you come to a time out sort of thing?<

For most days, I could have kept on hanging. Some days, I was completely worn out at 4:30, but then could hang for a couple sets later that night. But usually not at my max weight.

Maybe 25% of the time, I would have to stop before 4:30, or was completely worn out about then. Then, I also had a few days where I felt like I could not hang at all, due to previous work.

I tried to manage my hanging so that I was dealing with a fatigued state as much as possible, but not to the point of total fatigue. It is a tough thing to manage, but you just do the best you can. Getting to fatigue is the most important thing, IMO. Then next is riding the fatigue as much as possible.

Bigger

GMJ,

Good to see your getting the “hang” (sorry!!) of it!

Bigger,

Yes it was the first l time that I have reached what I consider total fatigue.

Mind you it was total fatigue at 0.5kg above half my starting hang weight for the session.

Question for you Bigger. Is total fatigue taken as the point that you can’t hang half your maximum weight or is total fatigue a point from half way below your maximum weight, if you know what I am trying to say?

Also a follow up question to the above is how did you determine that half your starting weight for a session is the cut off point when you are riding the fatigue wave?

I mean I may have used the term total fatigue incorrectly last night. Maybe I could off continued hanging at less than half the initial weight. So is that half weight cut off to do with the safety of our units like with body building when your muscles are routed and doing anymore reps even at a lighter weight is probably going to be nonproductive and time could be spend better doing another thing like hitting a secondary angle?

Andrew69,

One good, no one awesome session in a year of trying to get it right. Well last night I was getting the hang of it.

GMJ

GMJ,

>Question for you Bigger. Is total fatigue taken as the point that you can’t hang half your maximum weight or is total fatigue a point from half way below your maximum weight, if you know what I am trying to say?<

The arbitrary figure I came up with, for my own use, was one half my max weight. If my max was 20 lbs, at any one point in my hanging career, then I would stop if I had to drop below 10 lbs.

>Also a follow up question to the above is how did you determine that half your starting weight for a session is the cut off point when you are riding the fatigue wave?<

I simply pulled it out of my ass. There were safety implications involved. I almost always remained wrapped to try and remain in the extended state.

>I mean I may have used the term total fatigue incorrectly last night. Maybe I could off continued hanging at less than half the initial weight. So is that half weight cut off to do with the safety of our units like with body building when your muscles are routed and doing anymore reps even at a lighter weight is probably going to be nonproductive and time could be spend better doing another thing like hitting a secondary angle?<

The one half max thing was something that seemed to work well for me. You might feel like you can go at much less than half. In fact, I would recommend trying it, as long as you feel it is safe.

But the point about changing to another angle is also very valid. Many times, I would not stop, but try another angle. Sometimes, I could continue to hang, and sometimes I could not.

Bigger

Bigger,

The plan for tonight’s hanging session will again be to reach fatigue. I did it last night in less time spent hanging then on Sunday night. When I got down to half weight last night for the beginning of this particular set at this weight the discomfort was very slight then like 5 to 6 minutes later into the set, the Fatigue has crept back again. I see my fatigue at the moment like a cat stalking a bird slowly. Sneaking up and then bang ready to strike.

I have never experienced fatigue constantly like this in my first year hanging and I find it interesting.

Also interesting is your suggestion to try to continue the session after half weight has been arrived at. I will give it a go with caution. However my fatigue is in my LHS of my base still and is slowly spending towards the center but never is felt in the rhs of the base.
We have talked about this before and I think we concluded that my LHS structures at the moment are probably heaps tighter then the RHS. I am hung to the left somewhat and I believe that this is the major reason. So basically my reasoning is that if I can’t hang in my SO position tonight once fatigue has completely set in I can instead of changing the angle more towards OTS, can infact swing the chair to the left and stretch the RHS abit. However I think more benefit will be gained by increasing the ankle of pull upwards.

Shit it just come to me. Went I am fatigued and the weight hung is low I will do some fulcrum hanging. I now that increases the stress however It also alters the angle of stress back into the base doesn’t it? I will try it fulcrum because my OTS set up or method is still poor. at present.

Like you said there are 180 degrees of sideways hang and able 270 degrees of vertical hang.
Sorry it takes me so long to explain things.

GMJ

GMJ,

>The plan for tonight’s hanging session will again be to reach fatigue. I did it last night in less time spent hanging then on Sunday night. When I got down to half weight last night for the beginning of this particular set at this weight the discomfort was very slight then like 5 to 6 minutes later into the set, the Fatigue has crept back again. I see my fatigue at the moment like a cat stalking a bird slowly. Sneaking up and then bang ready to strike.<

A bit too poetic for my tastes. But I think I understand.

>Also interesting is your suggestion to try to continue the session after half weight has been arrived at. I will give it a go with caution. However my fatigue is in my LHS of my base still and is slowly spending towards the center but never is felt in the rhs of the base.<

You will probably notice the stresses on the LHS reduce over time, and at some point see the stress spread out over the entire tunica and/or lig bundle as applicable.

>We have talked about this before and I think we concluded that my LHS structures at the moment are probably heaps tighter then the RHS. I am hung to the left somewhat and I believe that this is the major reason. So basically my reasoning is that if I can’t hang in my SO position tonight once fatigue has completely set in I can instead of changing the angle more towards OTS, can infact swing the chair to the left and stretch the RHS abit. However I think more benefit will be gained by increasing the ankle of pull upwards.<

I don’t know how much you should be stressing the RHS at this time. Maybe later you can try some extra ‘divide and conquer’ techniques. But right now, perhaps you should concentrate on the LHS limiting factors.

Bigger