Is there an uncut hanger who gained significantly?

Well, I’m uncut and do 3x30min sets with 12lb.

Juri,

>Because of this SS4jelq (uncut guy) recommends 10 min. sets instead of 20 min for uncut hangers. In my opinion his fate of “a hard gainer” is determined (at least partially if not many) by the duration of his sets.<

This intruiged me, so I went down to the SS4 cave and got my PE records. I have them stored in the SS4 safe, next to the SS4 mobile.

I made extensive records of (nearly) all PE I did up to around Feb 2004. Looking through this, I forgot how much time I used to spend hanging!! I’m looking at a week, where I did 25hrs 10mins of PE, of which 12hrs were hanging. I think I have repressed those memories.

Anyway, let me scan through these a second…

25 Feb 03 was my first gain…In Oct 02 I was still doing 20 minute sets but 10 minute sets had begun to creep into the routine. In Dec 02 I had a couple of weeks without PE (I apparently failed to write why, could have been injury or work). By January 03 I was doing a mix of 10 and 20 min sets, and by Februaury, when I gained, it was exclusively 10 minute sets. So your conjecture is incorrect as I was doing 20 min sets up until a month before my first gain. Additionally, my next gain came a month later, during this time I was hanging 10 minute sets only, with a maximum weight of 23 pounds during this time.

My next gain may be a better indication, as I switched angles after this to tunica and septum work, again with 10 minute sets exclusively. The next gain came in Nov of the same year: 8 months of work with 10 minute sets on the tunica, vs several years of work with 20 minute sets on primarily the ligs (of course there are about 50 other variables I can’t be bothered to expand on, suffice it to say that set time is not the only factor here).

Read into this what you will.

Incidentally, my first gain was on an ‘off’ day. I was clearly experiencing a state of cumulative fatigue, as some days would start with 30 pounds for 5 minutes, then 28 for 5 (probably taking weight off mid set), then the next sets would drop rapidly to my staple of 15-20 pounds. This was probably the result of the healing that had been done since the previous session, undo that then get to work on new stretching.

My thoughts exactly, we grow when we rest, not when we work out, I think rest is seen as bad in here but feel it is worthy of a thread on its own.

Did you continue to gain after rest or does the log not show or did you not think about recording?

>Did you continue to gain after rest or does the log not show or did you not think about recording?<

While I took occasionaly took full rest days (one or two per week) often I would use ADS or traction wrap on ‘off’ days, and after hanging. So that the healing would be done while the shaft is extended. I don’t know if you would class that as a rest day or not. What I refer to above was a full rest day, as for the rest I will check my logs against my entries in the PE data site and get back to you on this.

I am uncut and gained around 1.5 inches from hanging just btc. Gained about .5 inches from manual in the beginning before hanging. But yes, hanging uncut is a bitch.