…does heating with a rice sock during down time and/or on rest days have any positive or negative effects?
It’s fairly well established that heat seems to have the most efficacy immediately prior to and immediately after PE exercises (and during PE if you can swing it). Perhaps it’s due to the additional plasticity/expansion it enables but as with most things PE, there isn’t a definitive explanation,…
Anecdotally, my gains didn’t start until I began applying heat prior to PE (of course we tend to make multiple changes to our routines so heat wasn’t the only thing I changed), and at the same time when I do stretches thru the day, I can’t heat my tissues, so go figure.
I can tell you I used a lot of heat down there following some painful surgeries years ago and noticed no changes in the size department but I also wasn’t PE’ing - would’ve been an interesting experiment (although I could’ve cared less that I had a dick at the time). Will be looking forward to updates if you pursue the idea of heating your unit in between your PE routines (although hard to know if it’s helping without controls, right?).
I don’t know how extreme you guys are on rest days but I feel like a quick downward or outward stretch a couple time throughout the day couldn’t hurt. But I also feel like I should be giving my unit a complete break on my rest days and not straining it at all. I don’t know.
I’ve always done about 10 “piss pulls” at a time now and then thru my day since I began PE, but in doing no PE whatsoever (including no piss-pulls) during week-long and months-long deconditioning breaks with no appreciable loss of gains, I have come to believe that for me anyway, I should fully leave my unit alone (including heating things) when I’m in decon and presumably in a repair phase although my mind games me that I should be doing something to “preserve gains”. I’ve finally landed on resisting the temptation and letting things “heal” which has worked fairly well for me. Good luck RR!
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