It’s amazing we arrived at similar routines reading similar threads, though you are on another level with your understanding and I’m kinda bumbling on and accidentally doing great things hahaa. For instance my cyclic stretch was just added to cool down while under tension. With the extender I have been increasing tension every 5 min up to uncomfortableness, first 10 min no heat, next 10 minutes heat and last 10 minutes no heat with no further extending. Those last 10 minutes as the tissues cool I can actually feel the tension greatly increase. So I added cyclic stretching after my hang sets because I didn’t want to add another hang set and wanted to cool in tension but apparently there is a lot of science for cyclic stretches increasing elongation and I have misinterpreted the data these last few weeks.I obviously got started with US because of you and Manko’s work. Once I found out I could easily get over 40 C and hours of research I quickly bought my own machine. This kind of heat, my extended decon and these efficient techniques to progress up the stress-strain curve have been monumental to my recent gains that have come faster than I could’ve imagined and don’t show signs of slowing down yet. Your current measurements are my end goal lengthwise and I’m now closer than ever.
I have only a cursory and superficial understanding of these concepts though. I studied up a little on some of the physics, biomechanics and other subjects mentioned in these threads and your log. I have a medical background but not this kind of medical background. After doing this research I read through your log again and I now feel like I have a very general understanding of what your experiencing as well as me.
I am having trouble picturing exactly what you are doing with your conditioning stretch. If you could find time to take pictures I would greatly appreciate it. PM me if you don’t want to post here and I will recreate and post myself. I’m sure it would help give others options as well. True innovation is so rare here so when I see it come along I do tend to latch on. In the meantime the Vac-Extender is still getting me by.
First of all great to hear from such a veteran that you have found new flame for your endeavours.
My background comes from mechanical engineering tied closely to medical field. I have worked developing manufacturing methods and material testing procedures. Because of this I have had to get some basic knowledge from many fields of medicine and material technics. I spend 22 years studying human physiology and chemistry involved with bodybuidling. For the substances used my involvement goes way beyond regular user.
In fact I first introduced myself properly to these kind of forums, when trying to figure out the GH and IGF-1 use in BB way back.
My approach has been developing along the way and still is. Coming back to PE , I spend first three months exploring TP and other forums as well, read all the referenced studies. Then went deeper on physics, anatomy and medical knowledge involved in all kind of collagenous properties and beyond.
I got back to the source so to speak and made my own interpretation of the basics. Read the guys who were inspiring Xenolith for instance.
And this was the starting point for the on going experiment, I might be spending 30 hours a month on exercising and 100 hours exploring, studying and analyzing.
There would be more big gainers if practitioners were taking measurements and put up charts to analyze them for finding any causalities. Some of them early gainers surely did but never published any. The early explorers long gone the majority is now just copying and generalizing stuff, and I am afraid this may have lead to overall reduction of the gains and will continue to do so until nobody gain no more. This is studied in many fields of life and outcome for such a behaviour is obvious.
I have found passion to be student of PE and I prefer to stay one, nothing more. I can recommend it to everyone as it could be rewarding.
I suppose I could get back to procedures with pics, publicly I am not so sure as I haven´t posted a picture at once yet. Publicly said that I will post pics when reaching the goals.
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)