Originally Posted by quim92
Do you think if one stretches too hard he will never gain.
I really don’t know. But I do know that you can’t stretch or gain if you injure yourself
I don’t know if I ever felt fatigue when I stretched. I really don’t remember but I don’t think I did.
Hanging and stretching are similar but not the same.
Many times I don’t feel fatigue until the end of my second or third set and sometimes not at all. So we are talking 35 to close to 60 minutes before I fatigue. If I go a week without fatigue in the first 2 sets then I add weight. I can be very precise like that with hanging.
I think you need to stop focusing on what hangers feel and instead focus on what stretchers feel. If ancient cavemen did PE I am sure they started stretching with their hands before they attached boulders to their penis.
I like fatigue because it lets me feel that I am pushing the edge without falling over. However, I have absolutely gained without fatigue. I am sure many people have.
Originally Posted by quim92
Lastly I want to add that lig gains are impossible at least for me. My half inch has come from ullis and jelqing the expansion ullis give. So tunica gains .
We spend thousands and thousands of posts on this forum trying to find out the mechanism of gains and how they are happening. We could all be wrong about where the gains are coming from. However, we are right in what methods are causing gains. You don’t need to know how an internal combustion engine works to drive a car. You just know that you turn it on, put it in drive, put the foot on the gas pedal.
Originally Posted by quim92
Perhaps I should leave all PE for a time where I get privacy..
I will tell you that you won’t gain if you aren’t doing PE. If you have an hour to do manual stretches then you just need to maximize that time. Make it as effecient as possible.
Yes the gains might not be as fast as someone putting in 3 hours but you need to think towards the long run.
I say this with the idea that you don’t injure yourself. You need to listen to what your body is telling you.
I am also not saying don’t do a decon break. I just feel that it should be your last resort.
Now if your EQ is turning to shit and you are getting other negative feedback then you might need to adjust your time on, time off schedule.
Try to understand with Bib and compression hanging we aren’t pursuing girth work. Most increases in internal pressure are because of poor technique. We do light jelqing. So we could hang 20 hours a week and never miss a day. That is okay for us.
But you are using different mechanisms. You might need to take rest days. That is about you listening to your body.