Buckfever's Post Collagen Remodeling Theory with Heat

7/18/2022

93%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
5 minutes add 8%
7.5 minutes add high heat TherMedic pad.
7.5 minutes add 8%
10 minutes add 7%
12.5 minutes add 7%
15 minutes add 7%
17.5 minutes add 7%
20 minutes add 7%
22.5 minutes add 7%
25 minutes add 7%
27.5 minutes add 7%
30 minutes add 7%
32.5 minutes add 7%
35 minutes add 7%
53.5 minutes turn off heat
56.75 minutes remove pad
60 minutes end session
11 minutes VED@4hg

Given the time off kept it at 93%. It should go okay from here.

One note. After 3 days off, the length and expansion in the tube that was achieved previously at 18 minutes at the last session was achieved in 11 minutes today.

7/19/2022

93%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
5 minutes add 8%
7.5 minutes add high heat TherMedic pad.
7.5 minutes add 8%
10 minutes add 7%
12.5 minutes add 7%
15 minutes add 7%
17.5 minutes add 7%
20 minutes add 7%
22.5 minutes add 7%
25 minutes add 7%
27.5 minutes add 7%
30 minutes add 7%
32.5 minutes add 7%
35 minutes add 7%
38.5 minutes low heat
54.5 minutes turn off heat
57.5 minutes remove pad
60.5 minutes end session

Usually this is the toughest session of the week but it went well, tension at end was not so bad. Feels like we’re back on track! No time for the VED today but tomorrow for sure.

7/22/2022

100%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
5 minutes add 8%
7.5 minutes add high heat TherMedic pad.
7.5 minutes add 8%
10 minutes add 7%
12.5 minutes add 7%
15 minutes add 7%
17.5 minutes add 7%
20 minutes add 7%
22.5 minutes add 7%
25 minutes add 7%
27.5 minutes add 7%
30 minutes add 7%
32.5 minutes add 7%
35 minutes add 7%
37.5 minutes low add 7%
50 minutes turn off heat
55 minutes remove pad end session
5 minutes manual stretching

12 minutes VED@4hg

I got Covid so was out of commission for a few days. Session went better than expected as very little work has been done. We’d only got 2 sessions in the last 8 days prior to today so not bad. The expansion rate in the tube was not as robust as the previous session, although it should be noted that I for sure am dehydrated from the Covid. I initially lost 5 lbs a combination of not eating and dehydration. I pushed a gallon of fluids yesterday and I’m sure that was not enough. So we’ll see on the next session.

That said getting to 100 half turns today, signifies that there’s a good chance we get to 107 by the end of next week and just need a couple weeks to consolidate.

7/23/2022

86%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
5 minutes add 8%
7.5 minutes add high heat TherMedic pad.
7.5 minutes add 8%
10 minutes add 7%
12.5 minutes add 7%
15 minutes add 7%
17.5 minutes add 7%
20 minutes add 7%
22.5 minutes add 7%
25 minutes add 7%
27.5 minutes add 7%
30 minutes add 7%
32.5 minutes add 7%
44 minutes remove pad end session
10 minutes manual stretching

18 minutes VED@4hg

I could tell from the head swell that the glans was not recovered from yesterdays robust session. Kept it at 86% and it was still too much shut it down at 44 minutes to avoid injury, should go well from here. Back to where we where in the pump.

7/24/2022

86%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
5 minutes add 8%
7.5 minutes add high heat TherMedic pad.
7.5 minutes add 8%
10 minutes add 7%
12.5 minutes add 7%
15 minutes add 7%
17.5 minutes add 7%
20 minutes add 7%
22.5 minutes add 7%
25 minutes add 7%
27.5 minutes add 7%
30 minutes add 7%
32.5 minutes add 7%
38 minutes remove pad end session
10 minutes manual stretching

20 minutes VED@4hg

Similar problem to yesterday.head swell was not robust from the get go. Thinking a loss of conditioning from all the time off. Cut it short and will go again tomorrow. VED is going great. yesterday back 18 minutes at 4hg with no red dots, no donut and no edema. Thinking 3 times a week and working up to 30 minutes as long as the tissues hold up.

Just thinking out loud here and with very little experience regarding the pump, just interpreting the general guidance here. But it seems to me that if there are no red dots, no donut and no edema then the pressure is not too much AND if there is continuous gradual expansion for the duration of the session then additional duration in the tube should be beneficial.

So for me I’m going to continue to monitor those signs of it being to much and the gradual expansion in the tube, keep the hg fixed at ~4 and just carefully increase the time for as long as these parameters hold. I think then once we find the point that additional duration does not add to the expansion. Then maybe after that very carefully very slightly increase the hg to 5.

From everything that I’ve read it’s a very individual thing.

Those are the guidelines I’ve been using, for whatever it’s worth.

Personally, I’ve found donut formation to be more closely related to time than vacuum. It should be easy to see how it works for you.

Thanks for the tip.

Does the pumping create a decent head swell? If so, would there be any sense to do the pumping first before extending or are there greater benefits to pumping afterwards?

First of all from a practical standpoint, you need to lube up for the pump and then you’d have to probably shower because lube and an extender are not going to work. So there’s the logistics.

However as far as the theoretical, the idea is that there are length components that are the limiting factors so that by using therapeutic heat while stretching those limiting factors will be overcome. So that by pumping afterwards, this would facilitate closing the gap between BPEL and BPFSL. At least that’s the theory.

This is thought to explain those examples where by some make good girth gains but are limited on their length gains, so that the expansion can only occur in girth.

7/25/2022

86%

2.5 minutes down position
5 minutes reset noose
5 minutes add 8%
7.5 minutes add high heat TherMedic pad.
7.5 minutes add 8%
10 minutes add 7%
12.5 minutes add 7%
15 minutes add 7%
17.5 minutes add 7%
20 minutes add 7%
22.5 minutes add 7%
25 minutes add 7%
27.5 minutes add 7%
30 minutes add 7%
32.5 minutes add 7%
36.5 minutes low heat
44 minutes turn off heat
53.5 minutes remove pad
60 minutes end session

There was better head swell today and better attachment though not robust enough to take it past 86%. Heat tolerance was poor. Tension at end of session felt light with good forward position of the glans in the cradle. Glans condition good at the end.
I may simply have lost a little ground from the time off and the Covid, we’ll see how we go from here. Going to stick to 3 times a week with the pump and see how that goes, I don’t want to playing around with too many variables.

Even without the theoretical benefits of pumping after, of course you’re right, the practical limitations with the lube mean it would be too much hassle. Insufficient head swell is currently proving to be a limiting factor for my extending.

Maybe the extender is set too long? You want the tip of the glans to extend past the cradle. Also it was another reason that I switched to just one session a day. Glans recovery was the biggest factor in terms of adequate head swell.

I think that is it. I can just about manage the length I’m doing but I may be here for awhile….