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Until now I didn’t feel that I had enough meaningful material to start a journal, but in the past couple weeks, that’s all changed. After years of on-again / off-again PE, including many consecutive months of hanging 10-20 hours per week with no gains ..

In the past 7 days, I just recorded 0.5cm of BPEL and BPFSL gains. My first length gains, ever.

Over a decade ago, even before reading about it here, I had identified this "steel cord," as a hard limit to any stretches I might attempt. You can even read my first posts here from 2010, complaining about it. A few years later I would try various hanging methods, to little/no avail. Recently, I decided to give it one more shot: Hanging 3-6 hours per day at 2-4kg; during which, I discovered the pioneering work done by Kyrpa and others with ultrasound (US).

Just to illustrate how much of a breakthrough this is .. I started my newfound hanging ambitions without heat or ultrasound. The first 7 days I accumulated over 28 hours of hangtime at 3-4kg load, OTS, measuring *maybe* 1mm of BPFSL gains. I then took 3 days off; and went into another 7 day period, this time with an IR lamp and US device. And this where I recorded my first ever length gains, 1/2 a cm in a week.

And if you would humor it, allow me to convince you why this isn’t just another "heat matters, use ultrasound" journal. I have alot more than that.

- How to measure length to a high degree of accuracy and consistency
- How to measure while under tension to know exactly what to do in next during a hanging session
- High quality data recording methods (I’m an engineer by trade)
- Convenient methodologies for setup/execution
- Clear descriptions of how/what to do, *without trekking thru hundreds of pages of posts*
- I might be the first example of someone doing 2x per day ultrasound for PE.

Additionally, I’m pretty sure that I stumbled across how to easily add girth on top of this. But for me, that will have to wait a few weeks for me to get to proof of concept, as my time is almost entirely focused on length for the moment, and I’m eager to validate this first 7 days of progress as being real and extendable.

Obviously I’m extremely optimistic right now, moreso than at any time in my PE pursuits. I’m not starting this journal as a newbie, but as someone with years of PE practice, 3/4" of girth gains, and of course, slogging through the difficulties of a hardgainer. But I think I’ve turned a corner here. Hope to see you around, and I hope that I can help alot of guys get the most bang for their buck / time.

Until now I didn’t feel that I had enough meaningful material to start a journal, but in the past couple weeks, that’s all changed. After years of on-again / off-again PE, including many consecutive months of hanging 10-20 hours per week with no gains ..

In the past 7 days, I just recorded 0.5cm of BPEL and BPFSL gains. My first length gains, ever.

Over a decade ago, even before reading about it here, I had identified this "steel cord," as a hard limit to any stretches I might attempt. You can even read my first posts here from 2010, complaining about it. A few years later I would try various hanging methods, to little/no avail. Recently, I decided to give it one more shot: Hanging 3-6 hours per day at 2-4kg; during which, I discovered the pioneering work done by Kyrpa and others with ultrasound (US).

Just to illustrate how much of a breakthrough this is .. I started my newfound hanging ambitions without heat or ultrasound. The first 7 days I accumulated 28 hours of hangtime at 3-4kg load, OTS, measuring *maybe* 1mm of BPFSL gains. I then took 3 days off; and went into another 7 day period, this time with an IR lamp and US device. And this where I recorded my first ever length gains, 1/2 a cm in a week.

And if you would humor it, allow me to convince you why this isn’t just another "heat matters, use ultrasound" journal. I have alot more than that.
- How to measure length to a high degree of accuracy and consistency
- How to measure while under tension to know exactly what to do in next during a hanging session
- High quality data recording methods (I’m an engineer by trade)
- Convenient methodologies for setup/execution
- Clear descriptions of how/what to do, *without trekking thru hundreds of pages of posts*
- I might be the first example of someone doing 2x per day ultrasound for PE.

Additionally, I’m pretty sure that I stumbled across how to easily add girth on top of this. But for me, that will have to wait a few weeks for me to get to proof of concept, as my time is almost entirely focused on length for the moment, and I’m eager to validate this first 7 days of progress as being real and extendable.

Obviously I’m extremely optimistic right now, moreso than at any time in my PE pursuits. I’m not starting this journal as a newbie, but as someone with years of PE practice, 3/4" of girth gains, and of course, slogging through the difficulties of a hardgainer. But I think I’ve turned a corner here. Hope to see you around, and I hope that I can help alot of guys get the most bang for their buck / time.

Until now I didn’t feel that I had enough meaningful material to start a journal, but in the past couple weeks, that’s all changed. After years of on-again / off-again PE, including many consecutive months of hanging 10-20 hours per week with no gains ..

In the past 7 days, I just recorded 0.5cm of BPEL and BPFSL gains. My first length gains, ever.

Over a decade ago, even before reading about it here, I had identified this "steel cord," as a hard limit to any stretches I might attempt. You can even read my first posts here from 2010, complaining about it. A few years later I would try various hanging methods, to little/no avail. Recently, I decided to give it one more shot: Hanging 3-6 hours per day at 2-4kg; during which, I discovered the pioneering work done by Kyrpa and others with ultrasound (US).

Just to illustrate how much of a breakthrough this is .. I started my newfound hanging ambitions without heat or ultrasound. The first 7 days I accumulated 26.3 hours of hangtime at 3-4kg load, OTS, measuring *maybe* 1mm of BPFSL gains. I then took 3 days off; and went into another 7 day period, this time with an IR lamp and US device. And this where I recorded my first ever length gains, 1/2 a cm in a week.

And if you would humor it, allow me to convince you why this isn’t just another "heat matters, use ultrasound" journal. I have alot more than that.
- How to measure length to a high degree of accuracy and consistency
- How to measure while under tension to know exactly what to do in next during a hanging session
- High quality data recording methods (I’m an engineer by trade)
- Convenient methodologies for setup/execution
- Clear descriptions of how/what to do, *without trekking thru hundreds of pages of posts*
- I might be the first example of someone doing 2x per day ultrasound for PE.

Additionally, I’m pretty sure that I stumbled across how to easily add girth on top of this. But for me, that will have to wait a few weeks for me to get to proof of concept, as my time is almost entirely focused on length for the moment, and I’m eager to validate this first 7 days of progress as being real and extendable.

Obviously I’m extremely optimistic right now, moreso than at any time in my PE pursuits. I’m not starting this journal as a newbie, but as someone with years of PE practice, 3/4" of girth gains, and of course, slogging through the difficulties of a hardgainer. But I think I’ve turned a corner here. Hope to see you around, and I hope that I can help alot of guys get the most bang for their buck / time.