Great to see you back. Your process is the one I can relate the most still going on. Keep on updating as at least I like to see where you are going. In fact because of the lack of other US users I need to have you updating. Bearded Dragon have started similar project as well but he is doing it under radar for his reasons I understand.
Congratulations on your progress as well. You are doing great.
No worries I am not going anywhere, not with these gains keep on coming ;)
You ask if I have some insights on this so I take some privileges to analyze and compare it to similar process running at my side.
We are getting similar results in our BPFSL driven approaches. Main difference being yours being perfect example of creep based lengthening while I am concentrating on stress relaxation induced lengthening. Both ending up to same results eventually.Being in this situation with almost identical dimensions and gains it is easy to see the classic example in the differences of the outcome. Confirming nicely what studies have indicated previously with ligaments and tendons.
We are both experiencing almost identical strain on average calculated from cycles and periods.
You are hitting plateau earlier at 2 weeks versus 2 months of mine. That is because nature of the creep phenomenon based approach. Stretching with a continuous load tissue recruits more collagen fibers and so on resists the force and you have to proceed with the incremental elevations on weight. Stress relaxation doesn’t require that much progression on loading as the phenomenon recruits much less collagen while stretched.Here is quotation of the study you are already familiar I recall: ” Thornton et al. speculated that differences in stress relaxation and creep behavior are due to progressive recruitment of collagen fibers during creep and that this microstructural behavior is unlikely to have as significant an effect on stress relaxation as on creep. If this concept is correct, then the progressive recruitment of collagen fibers could also explain the decrease in the rate of creep with increasing load. As larger loads are applied to the ligament more fibers are recruited leaving fewer fibers to be progressively recruited after initial loading and therefore decreasing the creep response.”
http://silver.n … akes/LigNLV.pdf
And a another quote from comments Marinera on same study :
“I think the study resumed in the last post is interesting because it shows how creep adaptation happens in a different way when a load is applyed right after stress-relaxation - in this case, the rate of creep augment with the load, when in normal circumstances happens just the opposite.
If this phenomenon was true for TA, it would means that, in example, wearing an extender or doing light progressive stretches before hanging could speed the creep adaptation because, at that moment, creeps are more dependant on load that on time.It recall close the “2-phase PE approach” discussed before in this same thread.”Loading, lengthening, healing. (p. 14)
What comes to mind now that I am on P macro phase is 1) stress relax for an hour and 2) manual stretch to induce creep to post bpfsl I phase cycle lengths. This will optimize proliferation into extended state.
Thanks for the brilliant explanation. I always get good ideas from you.
Furthermore, for I phase work I think for creep adaptation it seems best to stress relax, but the time requirement is higher, however I have yet to understand more of creep adaptation to conclude this. Both seems to work anyway with or without stress relaxation component using creep method.
Interesting your plateau is at 2 months. How much time do you spend in PE per week?
In my last cycle of 30 days I had 15 I phase sessions, each session is about 2 hours, setting up, doing sets, etc. Total 30 hours, 1hr a day, or 2hr every other day. about 7 hours a week. Can’t seem to gain 1cm in BPFSL if I don’t put in this much time, although this is just a feeling, maybe less time could accomplish same result.
This last cycle was hard because of time and doubt I cant pass plateau. But every time I seem to pass the plateau, and third time now. I am guessing at some point there are diminishing returns, unless the body replenished the collagen matrix and gains are infinite, lets hope so lol
Yes they are great gains and they are not stopping I believe. I am sure you are right on this one. Coincidentally I am riding on this very same edge measure differences being exact same.
I have found smaller radius fulcrum being the key using my freehand grip along the shaft as fulcrum doing manual stretching.
I’ll have to give that a shot.
The great thing about this is the certainty of gains you get. Before this method I was always wondering if I am just wasting my time. Now time=gains, so I can factor in and control desired expansion.
I think many people have gained with hanging or stretching but they are not sure why it works. I think we are close to an actual recipe for length gains that works every time.
Genesis 2006 = 5.8" x 4.7" /// Round 3 2019: Hanging again = 7.99" x 5.5" /// ST Goal 2019 = 8" x 6" /// End Game 2020 = 9" x 6.5"