Roots: Progress, Rambling, Tangents

On advice from Bib I am going to try a more traditional “ride the fatigue” approach to hanging for a month and see how my gains compare. I will now be recording max weight used on the first set in this thread. All sets are still BTC and 20 min., but sets after the first set in each hanging session will probably have reduced weight as I am reaching fatigue faster in the first set, and these sets can very depending on how the weight feels, so they will not be recorded here. I do, however, keep a detailed record in my logbook if anyone is ever curious about specifics.

Doing this for the last two days felt really good. I think I am averaging around 8.5# across all sets, but doing the first set heavy really jumpstarts the discomfort/fatigue. And after about 3 weeks (!), 8# was starting to feel a bit ineffective finally.

Max weight: 9.5#

Well I measured today. I gained, but it didn’t go too well. I literally planned a protocol to maximize it. Medications and vasodilators all day to maximize things. As it turned out, I would have been better off just popping a viagra or three. Alas, I don’t have a prescription.

Things went badly when I decided to drink a bunch of wine as a powerful vasodilator 10 minutes before measurement time. I drank half a bottle, I don’t drink, it was too much. The winedick made it difficult to get maximally hard. My second mistake was trying to get stimulated to 100% by my girlfriend having sex with me. I was proud of how quick she got off of me, but having someone get off of me, then repositioning my whole body, then measuring just killed my erection.

I retired to the bathroom to do it myself. This was very difficult. I knew I couldn’t even get close to coming with just my hand - after all the wine and cervical impacts I could barely feel anything to be honest. Nevertheless, I got decently hard and measured. 9 1/8”! It’s only an eighth, and I think I had more, but I’ll take it! If anything it will make my next measurement more impressive and rewarding (hopefully).

Max weight: 10# (finally double digits)

PS - and that makes me think: perhaps hanging heavier than ever before right before a measurement wasn’t such a bright idea either…

Roots

You just won the weirdest measuring routine award.

I’ll treasure it always! :)

Haha this thread is awesome! Out of the two girlfriends I ever told none of them were supportive and have me the usual line of me being perfect already. I guess if I lived with that person it would have to be done though.

I’ll have to keep checking this for updates. I’ve been hanging with the starter for 2 months and just got the hardcore. I could never make the ace bandage wrap work for me past 7 lbs and things felt much more comfortable when I switched to theraband and SS. Are you still wrapping with the ace.

Thanks longerstretch. Sucks your girlfriends weren’t supportive, it is really a boon to have a girl that supports me in it. Example: I always forget to log my hanging right when I finish and when I go to log it the next day, or a couple days later, I’ll have trouble remembering what I did exactly. About two weeks ago she just started pulling out a notebook as soon as I climbed into my hanging chair and started keeping track for me.

I don’t think I have ever used ace bandage. I currently use sweatshirt (thin) underwrap with self adhesive, ouchless wrap (like coban tape but 2” wide) over the top. I really like it.

I got in some great hanging tonight! I hit a new max, it was excruciating, in a good way, then I backed it off a bit and started riding it out set by set. I was planning on dropping down in half pound increments until 50% of the max, but the fatigue started getting so low on the later sets I actually had to go back up in weight! Man it was satisfying. I did eight sets in a row, I think, I’ll have to double check with my girlfriend, and after it was over my cock looked beat up. (In a good way!)

I feel majority excited. When God created the universe in six days he had definitely just finished a hanging session like this one!

Hanging Update:
Max weight: 11#

So I haven’t updated in a while. I wanted to get one in before measurement day which is coming up quick.

This last week I have missed THREE days, two of them back to back, because I have been terribly busy. Losing skin conditioning SUCKS! Yesterday was my first day back after the two days off and the attachment stress hurt so bad that I could only get in 2.5 sets.

On a better note, I have been doing all my sets back to back after some discussion with Bib and I like it much more. It just feels more productive. So that’s two changes I have made recently after discussions with Bib: doing a heavy, challenging set first then dropping weight as needed in subsequent sets, and doing all my sets in one session. I like the changes, and I am anxious to compare results, though this month might not be the decider as I missed those days and made the changes somewhat deep into the month.

Hanging Update:
Max weight: 12#

My funny dream:

I don’t remember many details, but I was talking to a person I knew in my dream who I hadn’t seen since high school. Just catching up I suppose. When all the sudden he says something like, “I really enjoy those conversations you are having with my friend.”

I say, “Huh? Who is your friend?”

He says the screen name of someone on Thunders. I don’t remember what screen name it was or if it was even a real one, just that in the dream I KNEW it was someone from Thunders.

So I say, “Who is that?” I was hoping that it was not someone from this forum and my PE habits had not been discovered by people I actually know in the real world. How many longdick123’s (I apologize if this is a real screen name) can there be though? :)

He replies, “[screen name I don’t remember], from Thundersplace.” Just like it is no big thing. Like it is just so simple to put the identities of real people together with their screen names from an internet PE forum.

That is all I remember, but I woke up thinking, “Wow! That was a funny dream!”

I wonder what Freud would have to say.

Haha, I’m not sure if I want to know… :)

Don’t worry. You are completely anonymous here Fred! :D

I have just assembled a cock coil as per Xeno’s instructions. It weighs exactly one pound and is the easiest, most convenient ADS I have ever worn. It goes right on and off in about one minute, maybe less and gives me a good, light pull all day.

I was pretty much not messing with an ADS for the last month, and only sporadically before that, because the hassle of putting one on and taking one off, and wearing one in general, was too troublesome to make it worth the benefits that I am not even sure exist. The cock coil, however, is so easy and comfortable that I don’t even care if it is helping my gains along or not. The one or two extra minutes each day is worth it even just for the sake of possibility.

Thanks Xeno!

Could you give link to the instructions for the cock coil? Thanks.

No problem.

Cock coil.

I got the lead coil from Cabela’s website and the heat shrink tubing from Amazon. The heat shrink tubing came in a 10 foot piece so I was able to cover the entire lead coil without cutting any lead off, so I got the full pound of weight.

Good for you roots; happy to be of service.

As far as I know, you are the second person to make a CC; so again, good for you.

xeno