Pain, gain, and duration.

Just curious how long in one session anyone hangs before they actually feel soreness, the necessity to drop weight, or the “electric” feeling discussed elsewhere, but never actually experienced by yours truly. I just finished my fifth 20 min session of the day, all of which were spaced a few hours apart. Hung with fifteen pounds various ways earlier, but tried to test out the one angle/concentration to exhaustion approach last two sets. Can’t seem to reach that point. 20 min not enough? Not really feeling any soreness and don’t believe I actually will tomorrow. One thing I have noticed is my abilty to hang heavy with a feeling of increased lig “give”. It feels like my ligs have stretched in terms of comfort while under load and I can stand erect with pelvis thrust forward and really hit that area of ligs, whereas before I would almost have to do a “Good morning” type move to gradually get to that point. No soreness in the process this time though and never felt fatigued. Considering doing more back-to-back sets just to find my failure point. Is this normal at these weights and times? Can some folks have THAT tough of ligs? I’m definately hitting shaft and ligs regardless of which angle, for I can do a shaft “pinch test” on the skin to see if the tension is actually where it should be, and not having the skin take the load. Perhaps I may be a “time” case rather than a heavy case to achieve any results? Honestly, save for another nickle plate or two, which I have done in the past just for experiment, I really can’t see increasing the load to much more than current. Gettin’ up there and I do at some point worry about the potential of some injury or non-intentional trauma. I realize everyone is diffrent and one has to use basic priciples to find there own groove on this activity, but would really appreciate some input/example of hanging experiences with relation to times and weights used to hit failure/fatigue/electric feeling so often described. Not that I would necessarily expect the same or even try to emulate what doesn’t apply to my situation specifically, but more or less an “Is this really normal or typical on the specifics, have you experienced, and how to proceed from here?” IOW, I realize if one had achieved this with 10 lbs relatively easy in a short session it’s unlikely that it would apply to me, but someone with similar experience that found failure going heavy (or light??….) at 1-2 hours, it may. Or maybe not….F, I don’t know! Compared to what I have read on the subject in terms of descriptions and personal experiences, it strikes me that this is panning out the way it is so early in the game. Either way, Today was high frequency on 5/20’s, tommorow, if all pans out well I will try to do a 2 hr session or two in pursuit of failure just to see. Any comments or speculation welcome, and I’ll report on results. Thanx, groa.

groa,

>but tried to test out the one angle/concentration to exhaustion approach last two sets. Can’t seem to reach that point. <

No, unless you are already fatigued or go up in weight to a new max, two sets will probably not knock you out. No electric, nada.

When I said concentrate on one angle, I meant all the sets. For days. Until you reach total fatigue. Just can’t do it anymore.

>Gettin’ up there and I do at some point worry about the potential of some injury or non-intentional trauma.<

This is always a risk, especially if there is some hidden defect as with Forge. However, if you go up slowly, and keep an eye on everything, you should be ok. Make sure you check the tightness of the hanger often. You may have to increase tightness a couple of times during a set. Slippage will cause more injury than anything.

You can get some good work while finding your max weight. Just because you have not fatigued yet, does not mean that SOME limiting factors in some areas are not giving way. You just have not made the progress which could be made.

Phat and Dance were the same way. I am not sure that Dance has reached his true max weight yet. Phat did not until about 23 lbs. When I stopped, I was at 45. Scary as hell, huh?

This took three years of hanging to reach. I gained 4.5 inches. That is a lot of LFs overcome and a lot of fibers reaching equalibrium.

Hard to remember everything exactly, and many things varied from time to time and stage. I think I first reached fatigue at about 10-12 lbs. This is after I chunked the loop and built my first functional hanger. I did not feel anything at five. Got a fairly good stretch at 7.5.

Usually, it would take me at least 4-5 sets at max weight to reach a fatigued state. Where I had to reduce the weight. If it was a new max, maybe 2-3 sets. If it was a very old max weight, then I might not fatigue at all hanging 4-5 hours. In that case, I moved up. My theory was and is, if you do not feel the work, you are not making maximum progress.

Some guys only have time for two or three sets per day. That is why I say to concentrate on one area, preferably BTC, at your max weight, until you reach total fatigue. It may take several days. Or it may not happen. It seems it should if the stress keeps going up.

Let us know what happens groa.

Bigger

Ok, so I’m beginning to get the drift. Still a long way to go.

And 45lbs…pretty frightening stuff!

I really thought at the outset of the planned experiment that my ligs and shaft would be stressed alot more than they are. Initially, they were a bit. Starting to look like this hanging thing is a long session endeavor with respect to any degree of effectiveness. The 3/20’s, while easily doable (is that a real word?), seem to have about as much effect as benching 5 reps at %20 of ones max! More a mundane activity or behavior than a means to a productive end. Seriously thinking about alteration on my program. Hah! Once again, my great ideas and plans meet reality, starting to look like high frequency (as often as I can) for as long as I can (alot more than 20 min sessions). And yeah, that 45 lb thing in there…my dick about detached itself just reading that! Fortunately, my goals are in the modest range of another inch within the next year. Perhaps fatten him up a bit, too. Well, whatever it takes, we’ll find it. groa

How did you get on G?

That is a hell of a bump…

Anyone can explain me how I can do excercise on my BTC? How many days per week should I hang?? Everyday?? Bib said as soon as you start 5on 2 0ff. I can hang even every day and I am going up of weight 0.5 gr every week. So If I am able to do only 2 sets because I have no time Anyone can explain me what position should I take lenght of set and how many? Thanks

5 on 2 off is a perfect place to start and is something that a lot of members (including myself) follow. Your sets should be 20 minutes each and most say that 6 sets a day (2 hours) is a good place to start. It may be harder to do that if you have a lack of time but hanging BTC should still be done in the beginning regardless of how many sets you can do. For your first question, are you asking how to hang BTC? It is a little confusing to me.

I discovere tha hanging cause discoloration. Is discoloration going to limit your gains?

What hanger are you using?

Captain wech! I think every hanger cause discoloration! Am I Wrong? I hope discoloration doesn’t mean NO GAIN otherwise people wouldn’t do clamping too! I wonder if I should notice stonger erections and night wood when I do hanging (for what I am reading online I shouldn’t bother me to have strong erections)

I did the newbie for 1 year and I gained 1 inch. Then I tried an extender and it wasn’t working at all. I took a break for 3 months and now is a month that I am hanging.

I do not understand if I have to do 3 set of 15 minutes or 2 of 20minutes or do even more sets like 5or 6.

What I am doing now are 3 sets of 20 minutes sometime 2 if I have no time.This is the right way to do? I take 1 or 2 days off per week it depends! I am adding half kilo every ten days and now I am hanging 3.5kg. I feel fatigue at the end of the sessions and I wonder when should I see gains and if I have to add weight every week or every ten days in the same way I have been doing now.

When I hang I sit on the edge of the table and I lay down my back. I have been using bottles of water because they are cheaper then weight discs. What do you think ?? I need advices!

I don’t think vac hangers do but I could be wrong, I’ve never seen any from my vac hanger anyway.