Hanging: Ride the Fatigue (Blink's Progress)

Blink you seem to be on the right path. Great job! Remember recovery days. The FIR pad is a game changer. Keep it up!

thank you!

And, yes, NIR / FIR have been great for my health in general & seem to help with PE too

got to 7.5" BPEL inside the bathmate for the first time at night & more frequently recently… I seem to be consistently getting better lengths in the tube. Up to 80 minutes ADS per day with StealthForMen device.

That’s a great feeling!

Yes, it really is. Thank you wanting10. In my view, any signs of progress are good signs.

Still doing my 80 minute ADS & 10 minute bathmate + kegel routine… still doing full-body NIR/FIR; although I primarily do it for general health benefits. However, I’m almost always wearing my ADS while I do it, so it saves time..

Sometimes I get extra rest days, but I remain pretty consistent.

Routine:
-Routine is still 10 minutes bathmate, but I’m up to 1.5 hours ADS & I’m using more force with the ADS (I tightened the bands…)
-I’m still using the total man ADS but using the stealth vac hanger attachment.. Still doing NIR/ FIR pretty consistently..

Progress (not much measurable, but it’s working, I can tell):
I’m more consistently getting 7.25" BPEL measures out of the tube & 7.5" BPEL measures in the tube (bathmate). My flaccid continues to slowly grow.. it doesn’t look like the same penis I grew up with. Girth was 5.4" last I checked & I’m not working on it.. 7.3" BPEL is still my best, & while the measurements don’t clearly show it, I can tell I’m improving (and EQ has improved some too).

How long will it take to get to 8"?
I am wondering how long it will be to hit my length goal — I want to reach at least 8" & recalibrate how I feel once I get there. Been back at PE since the turn of 2024. I actually don’t know how long I’ve done PE; probably at least 2.5 to 3 years, possibly more (back over 10 years ago in the old days). I’m approaching about a year back in PE… I think I"m at least at 3.5 years, but I might be wrong, I’ve failed to keep track closely. I’m definitely bigger, & it’s definitely worth it. I would love to grow faster, but on the other hand, it’s nice not being injured & I’m making progress & PE hasn’t taken over my life.

Slow but steady progress:
I’ve taken it really, really slow this time around.. Over the next couple months I’ll slowly increase my ADS up to 2 hours & see how I am doing then… I’m not that far off from hitting the 1.5" milestone that few PE’ers hit, & the 2" milestone is ultra rare.. I honestly really want to work on my girth, but don’t want to wreck my length gains, so I patiently continue my length work.

Gains over 9 months of PE:
-Objectively, I’ve gained 1/2" BPEL since my return to PE (9 months total) with 3 months of manual & 6 months of ADS.
-I’ve mostly used ADS & nothing unusual in terms of force. My average monthly growth rate is 0.056"

How do I know I’ve gained this much:
-I was measuring wrong right after my return to PE, I wasn’t really 7" (I was measuring from the side, no idea why I thought that was Ok), I was only 6.75".
-Measuring from the side (which I know is wrong) I’m now 7.5", but from the top (the correct way) I’m 7.25" consistently, or 7.3" in ideal conditions.

When do I reach 8" BPEL? (0.75" more in length gains)
-If I maintain at least 0.05" growth rate monthly, I get there by December 2025, thats = 1 year 3 months…
-I’m thinking of switching to an extender because it’s a lot of work to attach the stealthformen ADS — it’s a really expensive & nice vac hanger, but the parts wear out & sometimes I get no suction & on good days I can put it on in 5 minutes, but if I’m having suction problems, it stretches to 20 minutes just to attach (or even longer if I figure out I have to replace parts), so I’ve been researching extenders to see if I can do something more simple & pour on the hours & get my length goals ideally a little sooner (but I know too much force will just backfire).

I feel like I’ve gained far too slowly for how long I’ve been into PE (I found out about it around 16 years ago & although I’ve gained over an inch, I’m still a long way from 8"+ which has always been a goal). I’ve probably done at least 3 years of PE work; at this point, I’ve lost track (and I took a 10+ year hiatus).

It’s time for a change — I need a more simple approach.. I started researching extenders, the only device type I haven’t tried. In hindsight, I wonder if I would have already hit my goals a long time ago if I had started with an extender. The reason is, people can wear an extender 10 hours per day under clothing while working & most other PE devices or methods are not conducive to that much usage. I still think hanging is great (it’s the title of my progress journal after all), although I’ve enjoyed vac hanging devices far more than my compression hanger..

I’ve been using my vac device for ADS, but it takes too long to put on or take off, and I’m afraid of wearing it too long (penis blisters are scary). I started a thread searching for the right extender; I ended up going with the Quick Extender Pro — I chose it because I actually wanted to avoid another vacum device. I want something simple I can put on quickly. I will have it in about 8 days.

What I’ve done so far:
Manual (newbie routines) - gained 1/3" the first time
Hanging - gained about 1/2"
2nd newbie routine + Vac ADS - gained about 1/2" more

total gains 1.3" … (from 6" BPEL start to 7.3" BPEL now).

I don’t want to wait 2 more year to hit 8", so I’m going to see if an extender speeds things up. For reference, here’s the thread.
Which extenders are the most popular? I’m looking for one…

Day 2 of using quick extender pro — my experience is I can’t remotely use the default things they provide… the noose is a bit painful, hopefully I just learn to adapt.. It’s actually been tricky to put on, but there’s posts on how to tweak the device to make this easier.

I am using the silicone sleeve from my totalman set to attach the extender…

My StealthForMen vac ADS is far more comfortable.. even the BIB compression hanger was more comfortable… However, I was only using that as an ADS / I didn’t have a measured specific way of applying force. The extender will help with that, but for now it’s a learning curve..

I’m thinking about whether there’s quick easy hacks I could do to make it easier to attach the extender.. If I come up with something I’ll share pictures. For now, wow this device is a bit painful.. but I’m going to go the distance & see what happens.

On day 4 of using the Quick Extender.. for a minute I had buyers remorse, but finally found a comfortable setup, so I’m feeling better:
blink2000 - Quick Extender Guidelines - Opinions On Realism?

I combine the StealthForMen sabreskin (one far less than my normal girth - it’s a high quality silicone-like sleeve), and use the thinner foam around both nooses & tie knots with both nooses.. I attempted to use a single noose, but it kept slipping & put too much pressure on my penis (even with me folding back part of the silicon sleeve and sticking a foam pad under it to make a ridge, it still didn’t feel right.. I also wrap my penis head in self-sticking bandage gauze.. I tie the silicon laces / nooses under the extender in knots to keep the pressure solid so it doesn’t slip.

It’s quite time consuming so far to put the quick extender on & take it off .. it’s been a major adjustment to learn to use this device. I had similar learning curves with every device I’ve used (Bib Hanger, Bathmate water pump, StealthForMen vac hanger, etc.).

I’m going to stick with this for the next several months at least & see what happens. GIven I can reach 7.5" or further in the bathmate, I’m hoping to quickly reach 7.5", but not expecting gains really during the adjustment phase of the quick extender (they have me starting with the extender 1.6" less than my actual length, so I may end up getting decondiitoned in some ways).

I’m still doing bathmate pumping 2 days on, 1 day off.. extender is daily. I’m tempted to use my VAC ADS but have held off, wanting to make sure I give this new method a chance (the only thing I dont like about that is if I go back to VAC ADS, it takes a long time to adjustment & slowly rachet up the time)