Originally Posted by Plumwhipper
Hey Kyrpa, I noticed in your stats page that during your 5 month decon you lost 9 millimetres in BPEL and BPFSL. Do you think you would’ve kept losing more and more of your gains if you hadn’t started again?I would be interested in hearing your take on the reversibility of gains, and whether one has to keep on doing a minimum of PE to keep his gains.
Hey Plumwhipper,
Good question.
The loss of the gains happened in two stages. The initial drop should have been more linear and predictable dropping out of the protocol. The dimensions had been already stabilized more or less to a pretty nice level.
Another drop was caused by the ESWT. Not needed more than 3-4 sessions with the shockwave and the BPFSL had shrunken 6mm. So this to me is a confirmation the ESWT works like it should be , it causes collagen degradation in great fashion on any healthy connective tissue. You may need to read the shetland pony study to understand this. It is real phenomena.
All in all I am not concerned of the loss, it will come back in no time. It was all expected and having the bodybuilding background I have done it many times before. Going for a break, initially you lose some of the gains to be reversed quickly after the break. Bodily tissues can be easily stretched or grown to the dimensions they once were reached. Muscle memory it is called, maybe in this occasion tissue memory.
And no, I am sure there wouldn´t be more losses if stayed on the break.
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)