Falmos Progress Thread

Thanks for your words of encouragement! Really nice to know people are reading my thread and following my progress.

Thanks! I’m using the Phallosan Forte vacuum cup, I just hook something up to the clip so I don’t have to use the elastic waistband. It definitely took a while to figure out the correct taping process so that I wouldn’t have pain at my foreskin. That’s almost been a three year process - trying to figure exactly where the pain was coming from and how to tape without getting blisters. After lots of trial and error I discovered the pain was actually coming from the foreskin just below the head, rather than the head itself or further up on the shaft or the base.

Day 1 - 10h
Day 2 - 12h
Day 3 - 4h
Day 4 - 12h
Day 5 - 5h
Day 6 - rest
Day 7 - rest

No measurements this week unfortunately.
Week hours: 43
Total hours: 581

On day 5 this week, I was using my ADS and decided to try adding a heat pad for a couple of hours. Unfortunately the heat really affected the tape and made it lose grip, so now I have a big (1cm) blister. Gonna take some time off for it to heal, and never doing that again. Also can’t measure because of the blister so we’ll see how long it takes to heal (probably a week or two) and then I’ll measure again. Too bad.

Also I have stopped doing the 10lb hanging part of my routine about two weeks ago. Purely ADS now.

Holy shit that was the biggest blister ever. What a headache. Took two weeks to re-epithelialize and even then it was pretty fresh. I started up again right after it healed and then BAM another blister, but this time much smaller (4mm) Had to wait another three weeks for that just for good measure. Back on the wagon now.

Week 32
Day 1 - rest
Day 2 - 2h
Day 3 - 3h
Day 4 - rest
Day 5 - 8h
Day 6 - rest
Day 7 - rest

Week hours: 13
Total hours: 594
BPFSL: 8.1”
BPEL: 7”

No big losses, which is good. No big gains either. Will try to avoid blisters again. Learning point - don’t put heat on the 3M tape it will lose its grip and you will risk a blister.

Day 1 - 10h
Day 2 - 12h
Day 3 - 9h
Day 4 - 10h
Day 5 - 8h
Day 6 - rest
Day 7 - rest

Week hours: 49
Total hours: 643
BPFSL: 8.0”

No blisters! I’ve started the 10-20min 10lb hanging with heat again prior to ADS use. Will see if that helps since ADS-only didn’t seem to get me any gains.

Day 1 - 10h
Day 2 - 8h
Day 3 - 8h
Day 4 - 12h
Day 5 - 12h
Day 6 - rest
Day 7 - rest

Week hours: 50
Total hours: 693
BPFSL: 8.2”
BPEL: 7”

Woohoooo BPFSL gaining again!! Here we goooo!!

Day 1 - rest
Day 2 - 6h
Day 3 - 8h
Day 4 - 7h
Day 5 - 7h
Day 6 - rest
Day 7 - rest

Week hours: 28
Total hours: 721
BPFSL: 8.2”

No gain in BPFSL unfortunately but this is the first sustained week-by-week 8.2” so I am still quite optimistic!

Day 1 - 0h
Day 2 - 11h
Day 3 - 12h
Day 4 - 10h
Day 5 - 7h
Day 6 - rest
Day 7 - rest

Week hours: 40
Total hours: 761
BPFSL: 8.2”
BPEL: 7”

Could maybe say BPFSL is 8.25” but that’s very borderline. Now I see why some people measure in mm instead of inches. Oh well. Will give this another couple of weeks and if I don’t see growth to 8.3” I will take a break.

Are you still doing the hanging + ADS combo?

I’m wondering if extending/ads without the hanging (or any type of higher tension stretch) for a few months could produce better results since I’m afraid the hanging on top of extending will accelerate the “toughening/protective” response and slow gains to a halt (unless upping weight/tension dramatically), where as extending at low tension will bypass, or trick if you will, this protective response and thus giving gains for a longer time before having to take a decon break. This is all just an educated guess though. I’m currently only doing extending, but might add the hanging if anecdotal evidence suggests that an “extender only” routine is less than optimal for length gains.

Yeah am still doing hanging then ADS. There was a good post (I think it was by longerstretch although I can’t find it anymore - haven’t tried too hard) that had a good protocol for determining the optimal hanging weight - start low then measure BPFSL after 10 min heated hanging, then increased weight by 1lb for another 10 minutes then measure again. Keep increasing weight until BPFSL no longer increases, then go back 1lb and that is the optimal hanging weight. That’s how I arrived at 10lb hanging - at 11lb I did not have any further increase in BPFSL so was only going to toughen things up rather than stretch them out.

Sounds good Falmos.

I think if you apply sufficient heat (IR-heat, rice sock or ultrasound) then you will most likely notice a shift in the load-strain curve (meaning less weight needed for the same strain) which should be beneficial for many reasons. I am tempted to add hanging to my extender routine, and in that case I would most likely add heat for that reason.

If you can then I would also suggest using stress-relaxation for your hanging sets, since this seems to induce the same (or higher) strain using (much less?) less weight. This is based on e.g. the “Loading, lengthening, healing” thread. I guess you know this information already though.

Thanks for your comments. Am doing heated hanging with a cool down period under tension in the mornings before I switch over to ADS.

10lbs is currently what gets me the greatest strain. I check periodically to see if I should change to a different weight.

Day 1 - 13h
Day 2 - 3h
Day 3 - 2h
Day 4 - 0h
Day 5 - 0h
Day 6 - rest
Day 7 - rest

Week hours: 18
Total hours: 779
BPFSL: 8.2”
BPEL: 7”

Fucking hell had a blister inside my urethra. Had a toe ring around the tape to center the head within the cup to make it more comfortable but it just concentrated the pull at the very tip causing a blister. Never doing that again.

Will give it one more week to see if BPFSL can get to 8.3”, if not, will take a break.

Day 1 - 12h
Day 2 - 0h
Day 3 - 4h
Day 4 - 10h
Day 5 - 8h
Day 6 - rest
Day 7 - rest

Week hours: 34
Total hours: 813
BPFSL: 8.2”
BPEL: 7”

Fourth week in a row with no gains beyond 8.2” BPFSL. Time to take a break.

Overall in 2020 I went from 6.5” to 7” BPEL and 7.5” to 8.1” BPFSL. EG maybe 4.8”ish to 5”ish but I am training length first so not tracking this too hard.

After my last post I spent 6 weeks doing air pumping with pressure gauge - minimum 3inHg going up to 15inHg. Above 10inHg is where I started to get petechiae so I didn’t do this long. Would shoot for 10inHg for an hour which led to a lot of edema. Elliptical tube worked well. Felt really nice. However, no long term gains. I could get to 7.3-7.7” in the tube but it seems most of the increase was from head size. Outside the tube, BPEL hovered around 6.9” even with 48h rest of pumping. At the end of the 6 weeks I decided to push it and went for 3h with 5-10inHg and ended up getting a good sized blister, 5mm. Stopped after that.

Have been resting last 6 weeks. Occasionally taking BPEL measurements which are stable around 7”. No big changes. Last BPFSL I took was 8.1”. Could almost push to 8.2” but not quite there.

I have also spent the last few weeks reading old posts - mainly Sadsak Slinkys / Wantmore’s Fulcrum Stretches / Orange Bends. These seem promising. Will work them into my routine at some point but still trying to get the majority of my length goal first. Will probably start doing these girth exercises around 7.75”, whenever that is.

I will restart the week counter for 2021.

Other information to keep track of (just for myself, really - so I don’t have a notepad on my computer that I lose etc.)
- 3% strain is where rat tendon crimp straightens out - Hansen 2002
- Tendon/Ligament are viscoelastic - rate of applied load will change stiffness (will be stiffer with faster load)
- Ligaments show hysteresis (different stress/strain curve with each cycle - may deform more with more cycles)
- I feel like the toe region is just flaccid size going to BPFSL. After increasing from base BPFSL all of that is elastic region.
- Type 1 Collagen MRNA highest at 7 days post-injury, with low levels at 1 day and 3 days. Maybe I should just do one day a week?

Plans for 2021:
- Chart out a stress/strain curve
- Measure in mm (to be able to detect smaller variations and gains)
- Measure at coronal ridge (to account for head deformation)
- Use extender to be able to control strain better than just measuring the stretch once I take weights off

Other things I am looking into:
- Intermittent fasting/IGF-1/Insulin cycling

BPFSL: 21.0cm

Ok this week was a bit of a dud. I used my extender and tried to get the strain I wanted but I have outgrown my extender… hah. The last time I used it (Phallosan plus) my BPFSL was 7.5”. Now that I am 8.2” I need more bars. I have ordered them from Aliexpress so they are on their way.

I did some extending on Wednesday and some light (1.5lb) hanging after struggling with the extender for a couple of hours. BPFSL came right back to where it was before I left off which was encouraging as I was worried that it would have decreased over my extended break.