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Okay so we’ve had a little over 7 months of maintenance, consisting of no more of 3 X per week with low tension but many consecutive weeks of doing nothing. I did experiment with the Thermedic Far IR heat to sort that out and found some hot spots which I have lightly covered. I also experimented with very very low tension sort of along the lines of mobility work and found that it supports optimal EQ.

Makes me wonder if very low pressure pumping does something similar.

For this next campaign 1/4" was added to the extender.

IR heat will be applied for 45 minutes starting at the 7.5 minute mark of the session, I found that the temp becomes very uncomfortable past 45 minutes.

7.5 minute cool down, consisting of turning off heating pad, removal at 5 minutes.

Not sure of duration of campaign, but with very, very slow ramp up of tension.

One daily session.

Not sure how many weekly sessions haven’t sorted that out yet thinking 4-5. From what I’ve seen with the maintenance 2 on one off seems to be optimal, but that does not work for my schedule.

Success would be defined if we can get to max tension with the 1/4" increase in extender length and there is an increase in terminal strain from the best previous levels, being very realistic with expectations.

At some point I’m expecting that we will see a point of diminishing returns at which point I’ll permanently switch to 3 X per week maintenance for health. Maybe this time, we’ll see.

Okay so we’ve had a little over 7 months of maintenance, consisting of no more of 3 X per week with low tension but many consecutive weeks of doing nothing. I did experiment with the Thermedic Far IR heat to sort that out and found some hot spots which I have lightly covered. I also experimented with very very low tension sort of along the lines of mobility work and found that it supports optimal EQ.

Makes me wonder if very low pressure pumping does something similar.

For this next campaign 1/4" was added to the extender.

IR heat will be applied for 45 minutes at the 7.5 minute mark of the session, I found that the temp becomes very uncomfortable past 45 minutes.

7.5 minute cool down, consisting of turning off heating pad, removal at 5 minutes.

Not sure of duration of campaign, but with very, very slow ramp up of tension.

One daily session.

Not sure how many weekly sessions haven’t sorted that out yet thinking 4-5. From what I’ve seen with the maintenance 2 on one off seems to be optimal, but that does not work for my schedule.

Success would be defined if we can get to max tension with the 1/4" increase in extender length and there is an increase in terminal strain from the best previous levels, being very realistic with expectations.

At some point I’m expecting that we will see a point of diminishing returns at which point I’ll permanently switch to 3 X per week maintenance for health. Maybe this time, we’ll see.

Okay so we’ve had a little over 6 months of maintenance, consisting of no more of 3 X per week with low tension but many consecutive weeks of doing nothing. I did experiment with the IR heat to sort that out and found some hot spots which I have lightly covered. I also experimented with very very low tension sort of along the lines of mobility work and found that it supports optimal EQ.

Makes me wonder if very low pressure pumping does something similar.

In any event we’re going to start back up this Sunday.

For this next campaign 1/4" was added to the extender.

IR heat will be applied for 45 minutes once session tension is achieved.

6-7 minute cool down, consisting of turning off heating pad, removal at 5 minutes and taking measurements.

~17-18 weeks, with very, very slow weekly ramp up of tension.

One daily session

Not sure how many weekly sessions haven’t sorted that out yet thinking 4-5. From what I’ve seen with the maintenance 2 on one off seems to be optimal, but that does not work for my schedule.

Success would be defined if we can get to max tension with the 1/4" increase in extender length and there is an increase in terminal strain from the best previous levels, being very realistic with expectations.

At some point I’m expecting that we will see a point of diminishing returns at which point I’ll permanently switch to 3 X per week maintenance for health. Maybe this time, we’ll see.