Quick weight adaptation

I started hanging recently at 5 lbs. Didn’t feel like enough and moved up to 8.8 lbs. After weeks it is beginning to almost feel like the 5 lbs did. Based on what I’ve read at Thunder’s, seems like I should increase number of sets from 2 a day to 3 a day and not up the weight yet. I think that perhaps all the fowfers I was doing before I started hanging may have increased my weight tolerance,

If you’ve got the time, increase it. How many weeks?, it may be delayed fatigue which I had.

AH

Stay where you are at and increase time if you can, if not, give it a few more weeks. There really is no need to be be piling on all the weight in such a short time span.

Alice Hooper,

Yeah, I think more time is what I should do. I’ve been hanging maybe 3 weeks or so, not sure on exact time. Maybe by moving up to three sets I will feel more fatigue or even a delayed fatigue you mentioned.

Yes, that seems a reasonable decision. I just hate to see guys “running the gun” and hanging more weight than they need to, it is much more easier to hang just enough than too much, of course anyone will have to increase weight eventually though.

AH

Definitely, more time, not more weight, at least not at first. Eventually you’ll want to bump that weight up to about ten pounds, but as long as you are experiencing fatigue at 8.8, keep it there, just do more sets. Try to do two one hour sessions a day made up of three 20 minute sets with 10 minute breaks in between each set. Uli during the ten minutes if your dick is conditioned enough, or just jelQ during the ten minute rest period if it is not. Do not remove your wrap, only the hanger.

The further apart you separate the two sessions the better. One morning one evening works best, wear the lead golf weights ( https://www.peweights.com ) in between sessions to keep micro-tears extended while healing during the day and wear the TheraP Mag-wrap while healing during sleep. I know, I know, it’s dangerous to wear a wrap while you sleep. Risk little, gain little.

Later
BG

I’m not sure an eventual increase in weight is inevitable. Another few months will tell me if I’m right or not but what I am experiencing is a stability of my heavy hangings and still maintaining my gains. Of course that is in conjunction with peweights ADS at 2lbs. My heavy hanging has been stable between 9 and 12 lbs now for the last 6 months and my gains have been consistent at around 3/16 to 1/4 per month. It remains to be seen. I may all of a sudden plateau, but my theory is that if a full healing is disallowed due to ADS then the ligs will remain weak all the time. Some guys may find that they get gains at lower weights and some may take higher weights but somehow we need to get away from the I HAVE TO HANG REALLY HEAVY WEIGHTS, as some kind of badge and get to the point where we use the right amount of weight or technique rather then the standard thought that I need greater weight. Instead watch your gains. Don’t record your gains everyday and be patient. Don’t get me wrong about this not measuring everyday thing. I can’t resist measuring every day but what I do do is record it in writing only once a month. Then is when I can look back and see the results are significant. Mind you that I have been only getting 2 sets a day SO normally and occasionally I’ll get in 1 or 2 sets of SU.

Big Girtha,

Why should the wrap not be removed? I am new to hanging and had this question earlier. I think someone recommended that the wrap be removed between sets. I’m still not sure about what to really do.

hyyprr;

One of the reasons people get discouraged with hanging is because it is such a pain to get the wrapping right. If you’ve got a good wrap going, leave it alone. Trying to rewrap between sets will get old quick. After each 20 minute set, pop off the hanger and kegel in fresh blood by jelqing the wrap up and down. The wrap will cause a slight Uli effect, that is pumping in blood to the glands with each down stroke toward the body. Try to engorge the head so that it swells. If you are conditioned enough for Ulis, clamp it off for the ten minute break with a CableClamp, if not just keep jelqing in as good of an engorgement as you can. The idea is to flood the oxygen starved cells with fresh oxygen rich blood. At the end of the ten minutes, pop the clamp (if you use one) and squeeze out all the blood from the glands and reattach the hanger. After the last set of the session, remove the hangers’ wrap and put on the mag-wrap, clamp it off for the final Uli of the session. After ten minutes are up remove the mag-wrap and slip on as many of the lead weights (mentioned above) as you can wear comfortably and wear them all the hours you are awake, replacing them with the mag-wrap while you sleep. Keep the dick extended between hanging sessions as much as possible. If you let it turtle up inside the fat pad to heal, it will heal turtled up, (shorter)

BG

>The idea is to flood the oxygen starved cells with fresh oxygen rich blood.

Exactly. But restricting blood flow by doing Ulis between sets doesn’t allow circulation to restore. We want fully oxygenated blood flowing as freely as possible during the breaks. Allow your dick to take a breather. Don’t immediately strangle him with a Uli. EU’s cut off bloodflow completely, even more than hanging.

If a guy wants to try EU’s or clamping between hanging sets, first take a 5-10 minute break and then EU or clamp. Otherwise you’re asking for trouble. What is the difference between hanging for an 80 minute set, which I think we all agree would be very bad, or 20 hang, 10 EU, 20 hang, 10 EU, 20 hang with no breaks between?

Whether to unwrap between sets is a personal choice. I unwrap and do a little light jelqing and massage to help restore circulation. If the wrap is loose enough you can leave it on and jelq the wrap. However, that doesn’t allow blood to exchange quite as freely as unwrapping.

Staying wrapped will also lead to more fluid buildup in the area under the head. Those particularly prone to it should unwrap. Ulis make it far worse. When I’ve tried manual girth exercises between hanging sets I’ve had to cut the session short due to skin pain and a scary-looking fluid bubble under the head. Same goes for pumping between sets. I’ve found it best not to mix any other PE techniques into a hanging session. Your mileage may vary.

BT, how many minutes total approximately, are you hanging per day?

In Hanging 101, the suggested amount of time after 4 months is 60 minutes per day.

I have read posts where guys are hanging much more time than that, and Big Girtha mentioned building up to 2 hours a day.

If you can only hang 1 hour a day at best, due to privacy and/or time constraints, is it even worth hanging?

I don’t unwrap between sets. In fact I leave the wrapping on as a traction wrap for the next 4-5 hours.

One of the guidelines for wrapping tightness was to allow urination and also not cause fluid buildup in the glans while not hanging - ie: try wrapping and wearing it for an hour to see if you get fluid buildup. Too loose and you’ll get pinching.

Once you have a wrapping setup which works, take a Sharpie and draw a line down the theraband. It gives you a guide to rewrap consistently - both tightness and spacing. Really helps!

“If you can only hang 1 hour a day at best, due to privacy and/or time constraints, is it even worth hanging?”

Excellent question sixer, one I have myself. I can only hange (2) 20 minute sessions per day and I wonder if it is worth it.

I think it is worth it, but it requires one to be a little more patient as far as gains go. Of course, you would also have to make the most of the two sets which can become tricky at times.

AH

Patients, something i have little of! :) .

I try and do manual stretches throughout the day (30 minutes total) to keep the ligs/penis fatigued. Not sure if it helps, but I guess it’s my only alternative.

Since I’m new to hanging I’ve just sort of been taking it a bit easy to begin with:

—40 minutes per day ( usually 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night, though I have done them 10 minutes apart also) with 8.8 lbs.

—Extended heating, at least 15 - 25 minutes, before each hanging session (since having read Hobby say he preferred wet heat and since I do like soaking in the tub, I opted for this heating instead of IR, but am still considering IR)

—I haven’t been heating while hanging. I cool down while I hang. The hot wet heat seems to dissipitate slowly enough. I make sure I put the hanger on right after getting out of the tub.

—I traction wrap for 1-3 hours after each hanging session. After taking the traction wrap off I try to keep it in an extended state as much as possible.

—I intend to move up soon to 60 minutes hanging per day and will stay with 8.8 lbs for quite some time. Not going to rush the weight upward. I started off a bit on the heavy side with that much weight anyway, but 5 lbs just seemed like not enough.

—Positions: only done sitting with the weight hanging down, and standing with the weight hanging down. I might eventually try other positions, but am in no hurry about that. I’m especially leary of ots hanging after reading the trouble it has caused Dino (and others I think I may have read?).