Originally Posted by Buckfever
Kyrpa what would you change exactly? Forgetting where this occurs on the curve or which curve, you’re going to get things stretched out, with the assistance of heat to get things stretched out a bit more and then you use a manual stretching protocol to push past that. Exactly what would you change to the protocol? And why?
Concept is fine. And I am not looking for greater strains per exercise either. The gain rate certainly needs no acceleration.
What I would like to do with exercises is to minimize time investments and loads used on the last part of the protocol, now performed with manual stretching.
I already know that the conditioning stretch could be as short as 30min at minimum instead of the 50min I did now in the cycle 1.
Next to look is to find the threshold level with the load to achieve the targeted area on the slope.
I have a sophisticated guess that the last 1 mm is achieved without robust pulling of the unit.
I m not eager to lengthen the heat cycle because of the unknowns around staying prolonged times on the unnatural temperatures.
I will run this Period by 3+2 protocol , but the next one would be ran testing with 2+2 days system. Two days rest between seems to be enough at this point.
This of course concerns only the first part of the Period and it would be scrutinized later.
START 18/13.15 cm Jul 24th 18 (7.09/5.18") NOW 22.5/15.2 cm Fer 12th 20 (8.86/5.98") GOAL 8.5"/ 6"
When connective tissue is stretched within therapeutic temperatures ranging 102 to 110 F (38.9- 43.3 C), the amount of structural weakening produced by a given amount of tissue elongation varies inversely with the temperature. This is apparently related to the progressive increase in the viscous flow properties of the collagenous tissue when it is heated. (Warren et al (1971,1976)