When Should You Add More Weight? ( LG Hanger )

So I have a history of increasing weight too fast and injuring myself and needing to take long breaks due to this. I have never added more than a lb a week and kept the pressure low, around 5-7HG and have not been injured this time around but I am also only at about 4 lbs. I have some attachment point discomfort but my shaft is fine. Should I stay at 4 lbs until the glans discomfort is gone or is that just something that will always be there?

Currently hanging for two 1.5 hr sessions per day for a total of 3 hours hang time per day.

Just increased to 5lbs. So I guess I will see how that goes. Would still like someones input on what to look for before moving up in weight.

I’m not really well versed in vacuum hanging but I assume the principle is pretty much the same. Basically you want to be able to reach fatigue by the end of your last set at the latest. It would be wise to add time before you add weight but if you can’t hang for longer then adding weight is the only other way. One lb a week was always my general rule of thumb. However once I got to 5-6 lbs I didn’t add weight unless I felt I absolutely had to in order to reach fatigue. I just started hanging again after a long time away and I’m still at less than 3 lbs.

Also if you start to feel sore you should drop weight for your next set. Once the soreness dies down you can work it back up. More weight is just going to toughen your dick up and make it harder to gain anything.

Anything you look for in particular to tip you off that you have or have not hit fatigue? I used to hang and got up to lbs for three hours a day a few years ago so I may just not be hitting fatigue at 5lbs 3 hours a day although I should have had enough time for my dick to decondition. I don’t remember ever being able to “feel” fatigue even with the first inch of length gain I had.

General aches in the direction you are hanging. The feeling that you want to lessen the weight in later sets. I’m starting to think that not everyone feels fatigue though. Or at the very least it’s harder to feel it for some. The last time I started hanging several years ago I got up to 15 lbs fairly quickly. I gained I think half an inch but the gains stopped very quickly and no matter how much weight I hung or for how long I couldn’t gain any more. I probably wasted 3 months before I gave up. I think if I would have switched angles sooner when I was at a lesser weight I probably would have gained more. Eventually your tissues will get too strong too be able to gain. I could have just kept going up in weight but the higher you go in weight the more diminished rate of gain you seem to get. It just got to the point where it wasn’t worth it to me so I started doing something else. I guess the way I see it is if you can gain at a lower weight then there’s no real point in going up and toughening everything up faster. Hope that all makes sense.

I’m a newbie and still several months away from hanging. I will probably try it early in the new year.
Definitely need to read more about it, however, you summary was very helpful.

I am beginning to really appreciate the notion that less is more. If I didn’t read it over and over in these forums, I would have been in a path to injury and little gains.

Good point about staying at a lower weight but changing the angles. If I understand the terms correctly:

-SO (Straight Out, need a pulley or lay face down..)

-BTC (Between The Checks, need to sit in a chair and prop your legs up)

-OTS (Over The Shoulder, rig up a pulley system to make this happen)

-SD? (Straight Down, not sure if this is the abbreviation for it but seems like the easiest and most used angle from my assumptions)

You got them all correct. There’s also OTL which is over the leg. You definitely should read up as much as you can before you start hanging. There is a ton of useful information in the hanging 101 thread as well as many others.

I would agree that you should start hanging later. For me even though I am healthy and young my hands would get super sore from manual anything so as soon as I finished the 90 day routine I started hanging. I never got over 8lbs though and was only there for a short while. Gained about 1” my first year and then took 2 or so off. Kinda just went straight back to hanging recently plus I wear an ADS and pump before bed. Seems like a pretty good routine but time will tell. Going for that second inch gain and then might take another year or two off to decondition again and just keep this going until I hit 8”

Thank You. Definitely agree with you. Thanks for the advice.

Much Appreciated Advice and Wow, Awesome Gains!!! Keep at it.

Yesterday morning I felt my dick pulsing and throbbing like it was spasming. Kind of like if you have a really hard workout at the gym and your muscles spasm the next day. I was wondering, does this mean I should take a day or two off and just wear an ADS so I can let me dick heal? I have heard a lot of guys who claim to have gained a bit of length that days off are important but I am more curious about the spasming and if I am on the correct track for that.