I was unable to perform in the past 2 days due to work volume.
Today, I have good news and bad news to report.
First the bad. As mentioned before, I replicated todays exercise based on creep, not on strain, and I increased the weight by 1kg reaching a maximum of a little over 5kg. Total weight is not absolutely accurate because you have to account for basket weight, rope friction, scale weight, etc. Anyways, as the tension increased beyond 4kg, the vacuum cup started sliding off towards the end of the therapy. I was about to finish the 25 mins of US portion when I felt it sliding and almost coming off. I had to stop US, hold the cup with my hand to release some tension and hold it there for 10 minutes for a mediocre cooldown. As a consequence, the slippage of the cup grabbed and peeled off the gorilla tape inside creating once a again, a new beloved blister. I will have to start naming these things like hurricanes.
Now on the positive side, the extra tension yielded positive results in terms of length, and I am positive that if I was successful at finishing the whole routine the proper way, I would be in the right track to resume proper strain percentage.
Todays numbers are:
Pre BPFSL: 24.7cm
Post BPFSL: 25.1cm
Strain: 1.6%
I was able this time to retain 2 extra mm since the last workout, and I have passed the 25cm mark for the first time. 25.1cm is 3mm shy from the romantic number 25.4cm which equals 10 inches.
On an interesting note, as we have discussed before, there are days in which the tunica is extra very relaxed and flexible. Even when I am off I constantly measure throughout the day to monitor any difference. Yesterday, was one of those days in which the tunica was very stretchy. As I pulled out I knew already. It measured close to 25cm. However, today my Pre BPFSL was 24.7cm
The reason for the cup slippage was not the cup itself, it is the shitty silicone sleeves. First, I dont know why and who started this silicone trend. I put my money again on bro-science. The people who started using this material over 10 years ago probably got the idea from sex toys which use silicone materials and silicone lubricants because probably relates to a “delicate” area of the body. It turns out when you apply science and exercise, not sexual arousal and pleasure, silicone does not do the job.
I will try to find once again the same sleeve I had before which was made of a tight more rubbery material. In fact something made out of a material similar to a bicycle inner tube would be great. Which just gave me an idea.
P.S. As mentioned before, the more the penis grow the harder will be to achieve those 3% strain. As it grows, in order to achieve the same percentage rate of strain, the more millimeters you need to stretch on each session which becomes physically impossible.
0.5mm of Post BPFSL on a penis 15cm Pre BPFSL equals 3.3% Strain. But the same 0.5mm of Post BPFSL on a penis 25cm Pre BPFSL equals only 2% which is good, but it gets lower and lower as the BPFSL grows.