Originally Posted by TimeIt
Understood regarding the ongoing status of the log. I am starting my first full period coming up in a week or two, now with the correct transducer and the right understanding, and will do the cycles to see how they go. In the next period I may do static stretch instead of cyclical pending your ongoing updates to see if I see a significant difference in strain. I’m inclined to think cyclical would be superior just because of my experience in cyclic/dynamic stretches in my past combat sports experience but that’s just anecdotal. Correct me if I’ve misread your posts, but after plateauing within a period, it’s acceptable to work on girth for 2-3 weeks as long as you restrict longitudinal elongation correct? My plan was to do length restricted pumping, manual clamping/expansion, and so on, but to preface it with very lightly extended bundled stretching (<BPEL) and ultrasound heating.
Yes. That sounds good to me. Repeating the newly produced length for several rounds in conjunction with the girth protocol have worked for me. Not pushing for more length in any case.
Originally Posted by TimeIt
The thing that confuses me is that I was under the impression you needed complete rest from US for the break so the ECM can reset and stress can diminish. Wouldn’t any ultrasound heat, even if sub-BPEL elongation, affect the ECM in a manner counter active to decreasing the tissue stress?
Great thinking. Actually, being more hypothetical than proved science, I have had in my mind to try at some point to use US with extender as you described, at below the maximal length for few weeks during the the plateau of the post exercise BPFSL.
BUT, not with heat producing intensity. Using LIPUS, 20% duty cycle utilizing the benefits of the low intensity pulsed ultrasound.
That might do the trick, and couple of other tricks a side. It has lots of benefits for keeping the growth environment at high level with expression of various cytokines and growth factors.
And more interestingly, using ultrasound at the stage tissue being at proliferation phase, the tissue could be kept in a lower internal stress level altering the decorin / biglycan interactions,
among other effects on proteglycan adhesions.
In short the ECM bonding and collagen crosslinking kept low during the extending session, allowing to extend the tissue with ease to the new length recently produced.
But for the actual timing of this exercise we may be already late at the point the post exercise BPFSL development stalls.
I would start it in advance, maybe at the in 20- 30 days or so already, as for me the plateau comes latest at 45 days.
Overall, I think you are on the good tracks and if deciding to take a chance on adding something similar, let us know. I am looking into it with great interests.
Originally Posted by TimeIt
I am no scientist but will be tracking everything I do as you have and will be providing the data on a period by period basis to aid in the discussion. Hoping to better understand this.
Not me either. If this was a science, we would have histological examinations taken out of the tissue every now and then.
In addition, we would be monitoring a plethora of biological markers etc.
More likely this is phenomenal modelling, we know some things, and we hypothesize some based on the known science, and try to model it in practice.
Though not able to prove anything and very poorly even showcasing any mathematical models either, we at least are putting up a very interesting applied science operation.