Three Month Away

Away from home for the summer and I’ve decided to take this time away from the girlfriend to commit to PE and I’m looking for any constructive criticism.
I’ve dabbled in the past with extenders but not consistently. I’ve learned quite a bit on these boards, and can’t tell you all how much I appreciate all of the knowledge offered up here for free.

So I bought a thermedic infrared heating pad, some silicone sleeves, and 2 x 2.5lb weights, a pump, a cheap extender, and a vacuum hanger ADS, and I made an AFB style hanger.
After a bit of experimentation I’ve come up with the following routine. I work 3-4 12 hr shifts per week.

Days I work:
Before work - heating pad x 5 minutes, silicone sleeve and 2.5 lbs hanging for 30-40 minutes then 5-10 minutes of pumping to get blood flow back in before I go to work.
After work - same, then try to fall asleep fowfering

Days I don’t work:
5 min heat, 2.5 lbs hang x 2 hrs with heat (with breaks every 45 min), then the vacuum hanger ADS while running errands and doing chores, then back to 2.5 lbs and repeat as time permits. I don’t pump until the end, I am just focusing on length now and I’m trying to avoid any sort of girth work until I’ve made some length gains.

I think I’m getting the right sort of fatigue, feels like what many of you describe. I’m trying not to injure myself and I know that consistent time under tension is more important than excessive force. I did have one mishap with a water blister from vacuum hanging but now I tape my glans.
I’m not taking any days off at the moment, trying to maximize my time for the next 11 weeks until I go back home.
I’m going to try ADS at work once I feel confident that it’s not noticeable under scrubs (I’m a nurse).

Any thoughts, advice, feedback? I haven’t measured myself since I started, I don’t want to get caught up checking all the time and trying to count every tench of a millimeter.
I’d love to go home and surprise my gf with a bigger unit in August.
Thanks in advance all you human-horse hybrids!

Maybe the golden formula is heat+hanging followed by all day (and night?) stretching?

Throw in some short, 5-10 minute pumps to pull blood back in every day?

Overnight stretching not recommended. Need to be awake and alert to deal with vacuum/tape/pain issues promptly. Don’t want to roll over weird on your elastic band and pull too hard for a long time either. And circulation is a major concern.

LGHanger girth bands seem like a good overnight option, possibly. Still waiting on mine, so haven’t experimented yet to check circulation, etc.

Been doing a bit of night stretching. Stretch is maybe not accurate, more like turtling prevention. There’s very little tension. It’s usually only for a few hours, as soon as I get up to pee I usually leave it off the rest of the night.

It’s a vacuum hanger so I’m not worried about circulation. During daytime use I’ve never had any sort of coldness or numbness to the tip so I feel safe as far as that goes. Also I’m a very light sleeper, discomfort will wake me up.

I’ve never heard of the girth bands, sounds interesting.

I know many are tempted, and the Phallosan, for example, even suggests use during sleep. But…it only takes that one time…whether a suction attachment or other. To each their own, but the most I will do is use a relatively loose stretchy ring that will contract only upon nighttime erections. I also use the fowfer method of tucking between legs. If done properly, you may well notice a generally better sleeping girth, and on erection, the ring may help even more. It does for me, with zero risk of circulation cut off. Daytime is for the more aggressive methods. Just my two cents.

I appreciate the feedback, but the ADS vacuum of the sort I am talking about don’t constrict anything, I wouldn’t consider it an aggressive method. I use a glans cap and a silicone sleeve and the amount of pull it’s exerting would be probably just a few ounces. The glans cap protects from water blisters and the suction is just pulling on the silicone sleeve, not constricting anything. It’s hooked to a band with just enough pull to prevent turtling.
I tried fowfering but I’m a tosser and a turner and it doesn’t stay put for long. It might work better once I’ve gotten some flaccid length.
That being said, the majority of the gains will come from consistent and dedicated hanging with weight combined with heat.

On the days I work I try for about 45 minutes (broken up as needed) before work and then an hour to an hour and a half after work depending how tired I am. I work 12 hr shifts so that can vary a bit. On days I don’t work I’m trying to build up my time to 6 hrs total (broken up as needed).
Been experimenting with pumping after I’m finished hanging just to pull as much blood as I safely can into my freshly stretched self.
I have a leluv cylinder I can pack so I wrap the thermedic pad around it and it takes me about 10 to 15 minutes of 6-10 mmHg to reach 6 1/4”. After that I clean off the lotion and put on the vacuum ADS for sleep.
My initial goal is length, I’ll worry about girth later. Going on the ‘easier to stretch a thin rope than a thick one’ philosophy.

Brain dump regarding PE:

I think keeping it simple is key. I don’t have years of experience with this (if I did I would probably have retired with my massive horse dong by now), but based on success stories I’ve read on here I believe 90% of my PE time should be hanging with heat.

Coincidentally, that is where I feel like deep stretch/real change is happening.

And I don’t really feel that deep stretch until I have at least 5lbs hanging. That deep stretch, if I had to describe it, is a bit of a dull ache inside. It isn’t really pain, but also I don’t know what else to compare it to, it’s not sharp, stabbing, or throbbing so I think its good.

The potential danger at this point would be increasing weight too soon. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. Time under tension!

As far as pumping, it’s only 10-15 minutes, also with heat. The only goal of it is 3 dimensional (as opposed to just linear) cellular stretch and pulling blood back in to achieve hyper-engorgement. But again, only for 10-15 minutes. And 5 of those minutes are spent just getting the tube packed.

Once I have achieved my length goal (which I haven’t even put a number to) then I will focus on girth. This is, I think, where pumping with heat combined with Uli’s becomes the focus. This step is less passive and takes more energy (especially the Uli’s) but girth, me thinks, is what most girls want.

On angles: no idea if the LOT theory is accurate, it makes sense but the point is moot for me. What I mean is it matters far less than consistent time under tension with heat. That being said, all my hanging is either BTC or SD. When I’m sitting in a chair it’s BTC, when I’m laying in bed it’s SD (attached to one of those resistance band /bungee cords that has been measured with a luggage scale to quantify tension for my purposes). Depending on the angle and how I’ve wrapped, I still sometimes still feel some skin stretch, hopefully that abates soon.

I do need to spend more time on the injury threads, to get a better idea of specifically how guys typically injure themselves so I can avoid it.