No sweat; assuming you’ve realized some newbie gains already, I’d suggest starting with the advanced protocol, although my appreciation for hanging has been surpassed by my appreciation for the efficiency of multiple clamp clamping and compressions…if I didn’t need to use the ninja protocol, I’d use something closer to the advanced protocol…except with with no hanging…the return on investment of time sucks relative to those more efficient methods. But your question brings up an important point for all of you clam jammers…
The IPR concept is not meant to be prescriptive, indeed, quite the opposite; it’s a conceptual outline for implementing work and rest with an intermediate stage of encouraging cell proliferation that’s based on well understood principles of tissue healing and differentiation. One MUST tailor their I-phase work to their own physiological response. An important point here: newbie gains come from an entirely different mechanism than do post-newbie gains; newbie gains come from cellular hypertrophy and minor ligament stretching; post-newbie gains come from cellular hyperplasia and major ligament stretching.
Frankly, anyone who thinks that they can jelq their way to an erect volume twice that of the original is, based tissue differentiation mechanics, and not uncoincidentally, on my experience, and the experience of probably hundreds of thousands of men, not practicable…hypertrophy (i.e. enlargement) of cells can only occur to a finite degree. However, hyperplasia (i.e. multiplication) of cells can occur infinitely…now here comes the important part:
If:
1) ONE IS ABLE TO ACHIEVE ACTUAL INFLAMMATION…this is a non-trivial accomplishment (jelqing will NEVER produce sufficient stress to cause inflammation).
AND
2) ONE RESTS THE INFLAMMED TISSUES.
Clearly, both of these are a challenge to most PE practitioners, who mostly accomplish nothing utilizing the techniques that got them their newbie gains (because of the finite limit of cellular hypertrophy described above). Honestly, I think that the reason that 99.9999% of PE practitioners, at least as represented by the membership of this forum, show up, get some newbie gains and then disappear, is that they continue to do what they did to get those newbie gains, even after a break, and don’t gain. Maybe they even mix it up with new techniques, but they don’t gain. Eventually, they give up. I would too if I were them.
But I sure am not.
What they don’t understand are the mechanisms of tissue differentiation and here’s another important part: the mechanism of newbie gains, cellular hypertrophy, is observable as gains very quickly (no doubt part of why guys continue to utilize the techniques that got them their newbie gains…remember all organisms respond to stimuli, Pavlov’s (and a-unit’s) dog and homo sapiens included. However, the mechanism of post-newbie gains, cellular hyperplasia, is NOT observable as gains quickly. In fact, one needs to WAIT for the cell replication response to the I-phase applied stress to take place. So yea, there’s yet a third thing that PE practitioners find challenging: waiting. Heck even Pavlov’s dog would quit if the reward NEVER showed up. I’m still here because THE REWARD DOES SHOW UP.
So now, dear reader, you DO understand the mechanisms of tissue differentiation.
Therefore, go forth and use this understanding to grow some post-newbie gains penile tissue.
And let me know if I can help.
Cheers,
xeno