Shorter After A Month?

Been hanging 2 days on / 1 day off for the last month. Was hanging last night. Doing mostly BTC, last set is 12 lbs.

Awoke at 0430 with a raging boner and thought it was a good time to measure. Only 7.5 inches what the heck is going on????

I just found the same exact situation… well, not exact as I have only missed two days in the last four weeks and my is issue is shorter based on BPFSL… but yes, even though I have awesome EQ I am measuring shorter after more then a month BTC hanging.

How can this be?

So, being that it seems a bit difficult to get a conversation/response around here on a number of topics… I posed this question on another site.
DLD responded saying he had a similar response to hanging and implied it is prolly more common then you’d think.

I really don’t get it tho, I know the body is one complicated creation but if you apply a force, over time, in the opposite direction of the connection how does nothing happen - or in our cases the opposite effect happen?

I believe you’re just experiencing some smooth tissue contraction from the stress of hanging. Which is why I always recommend 5 - 10 minutes of aggressive hand stretching after a hang session, followed by wearing a “girth band” to prevent retraction and help promote a fuller / longer flaccid condition. If you are using a compression clamp type device it does compress tissue and hinder blood flow… which are contributing factors to post hang retraction.

The termination of muscle contraction is followed by muscle relaxation, which is a return of the muscle fibers to their low tension-generating state. What I would advise you to do is to take a warm / hot shower or use a heat lamp and do some moderately aggressive jelq work while being 40 - 60% erect, concentrate on relaxing the pelvic floor muscle. Morning wood isn’t always going to produce your best length measurement.

Yeah but I’m not measuring right after hanging, when I finished the hanging I did some manuals and hot Bathmate too. I’ve also checked on an off hanging day after doing manual squeezes. Seems to be beefing up the base of the penis, which is great, but it also results in shorter length. That sucks

Whats your routine? Hanging, manuals and bathmate? Sounds like overtraining to me.

Or maybe you have gained girth and this has reduce some of your length. People often report this trade-off between length and girth.

Hey so based off of your routine. This is what BIB has told me since I’m a recent bibhanger purchaser. He stresses zero rest days and if you have to rest, he advises to do maintenance sets like 1 - 2 sets of 20 minutes. The reason for hanging is to micro tear the collagen fibres and stretch out the ligaments. He says that if you allow your body to heal the micro tears that it will heal, strengthen and heal back shorter making future hanging sessions harder to achieve fatigue since there are more collagen fibres.

So from the way it sounds, you might be an example of what BIB has warned me about when choosing to rest so I make an effort to have an ADS on and hang every single day. Again, just wanted to mention this and share this so hope this helps.

If you dont allow microtears to heal and you keep adding mictrotears to microtears the result will be an injury. Growth is an adaption, you have to give the body time to heal, adapt and lengthen the tissue. If you keep adding stress day after day for hours, another adaption the toughening(plateau) will start to kick in more recently than it should.

Give this thread a read: ANS system needed here

I found using an ads at light tension (not even fully stretching to bpfsl) but keeping the penis at 80-90% of bpfsl is the golden middle ground. Allows extended healing while preventing any retraction and keeping cell gaps open to fill in.

Sounds legit, but I have a life that will get in the way. I’ve tried hanging before, for 15 weeks steady, and saw no gains. Maybe it’s just not for me.

The manual exercises seems to work. I don’t think I’ve gained much permanently, maybe 1/4 inch length and girth. I attribute those gains to jelqs and squeezes.

Sounds good i can say. Although healing in extended state isnt so important i think because the body will heal the micro-tears either way.

But it adds to the total time under tension and the tension is low, so its a good approach.

Maybe it is more efficient to use this light tension before your higher force routine(manuals or hanging), because then the tissue will be more easy to deform and the micro-tears will produced more easily.

You can a try a manual stretching routine up to 60 mins per day with 2 days of rest every week. It worked for me.

1 month is a little too short to just throw the towel in on a routine because the penis has good days and off days. Its very possible that even though you felt rock hard, it was just a slight off day for your dick. You can feel rock hard from morning wood or whatever, but you havnt actually warmed up or stretched out so that 7.5 morning wood might be the same thing as your warmed up, stretched out 7.8 measurement at another time. I heard a rule a while ago that if you start a new program then COMMIT 100% and DO NOT measure for 3 months no matter how badly you want to. And then, if you get all warmed up and stretched out and then you measure and you still have no gains, consider trying a different program. Maybe up the hanging intensity and go 1 day on 1 day off.

This stuff takes time, commitment, trial and error, and data recording/comparing.

My only final thought is that if no hanging is working for you at ALL after all that, and you are getting a gut feeling the jelqs and squeezes are giving you the bulk of your actual gains, why not cut out the stuff thats not working and double down on a new jelqing routine with more of an emphasis on length and extra intensity while you do it?

Aside from that, and concentrating on being in an extended state while you heal, those are my only ideas

As someone who hasn’t truly begun their PE journey, I’ve even discovered severe variance in my erect sizes, so I don’t think a few erratic readings should be an indication for a trend. If you’ve already gotten improvements from various sources, perhaps it was just an off day.

exactly… There are SO many factors.
How well hydrated are you at that time? How much oxygen is in your blood? How stretched out and warmed up was your dick? Perhaps your fat pad was a little bigger because you were a tad more bloated because of your recent diet? Did you use the same ruler each time? Are you using BPEL measurements only?

You should read my thread on how I made my gains and consider the info I presented there before you make any huge decisions.

MUST READ: My OLD gains and my NEW journey