TTT: I would hang 5 days a week (or more) for 2-3 hours per day, sometimes more. I started very light—around 5#. I spent a lot of time in the 15# range, didn’t gain, and increased the weight gradually to 20 and then 25. Most of my heavy hanging was BTC, but I also did a lot of SO sets with 20#.
Several months later, after finally getting some gains using the jelqing and stretching I referred to above, I came back to hanging with a vacuum hanger, 2-3 hours at a time continuously, in the 10-15# range. I got great fatigue without much trauma to the skin and so forth, but I didn’t keep up the program for long. I didn’t gain, but it’s certainly possible I would have if I had continued. It’s impossible to say.
Rushmore: It’s certainly possible I was doing something wrong. It’s also possible that hanging simply doesn’t work for me. Nowhere is it written that hanging enough weight for enough time will guarantee you gains. Well, maybe Bib wrote it, but I don’t think there is any scientific basis for that idea. I think it’s wishful thinking or worse on the part of the PE community to conclude that gains are the inevitable consequence of a properly conducted hanging regimen. As I see it, hanging is no different from any other PE technique; it works for some guys, but not for others.