Hanging In Vain

I started PE (on and off) last year and gained about 1/2 an inch in length. Since then I’ve gotten more serious about it. But for the past 4 months I’ve hit a wall and haven’t seen much, if any results. My LOT is about 6:00 so I’ve been hanging 2 10 mins. Sets OTS (20 lbs.) and 2 10 mins. Sets SO (15 lbs.) for the past month. I feel no fatigue and gained nothing. What can I do to break this wall and start attaining results?

Longerdong,when you did get your 1/2 in length results what routine were you using? Were you hanging,and if so, could you report what angle you used and maybe how long and heavy you hung? I also have a very low LOT and was just curious.

You could increase your hanging time I know from personal experience that I need at least 10 hours hanging time a week to make gains. I’m sure some people are different but most big gainers hang for long hours.

Hey Dino,

You’re a bib hanger right? Have you tried/or are planning to try a Vac? Any opinions on them?

JD76,

I didn’t have a specific routine. However, I can tell you that I did mostly SD hanging without jelqing or anything done manually. My max weight was about 15 lbs give or take a pound or 2. The time varied from day to day. It often depended on how I felt. If I had to guess, I would say roughly around 5-6x10 mins. Sets. Sorry I can’t be more precise.

Thanks JD76 and Dino9x7 for even replying to my post.

Anytime longer. I’m a new kid on the block(no NOTthe boy band) Hard Rock and Metal all the way! Dino has been here for many years though and is in a much better position to answer these mysterious PE questions! Stick with it ,I know I plan to ,and hopefully we’ll both reach our goals. Just wish I knew about this site years ago! Take care. JD

My understanding of the growth process is that body reacts to a certain stress by increasing its mass: once it has balanced the stress with a growth, say, of 5%, you must increase the stress of the same amount and time to induce another reaction.
At any rate the time you dedicate to hanging is far less than what you could, whereas the weight you use is far more than needed.
I would find the optimal weight which could allow you to do 20 min. sessions and would try to do 3 sessions in the morning and three in the night.
A two pound ADS in-between would be greatly beneficial

Check PPM theory if you like

The half-inch gain might have been your ‘newbie gains’. Although it could also be that you need to increase the intensity of your routine a little so as to keep the gains coming.

A twenty-minute set is recommended as standard really only because the hanger has to be removed to re-establish blood-flow (if it wasn’t for that necessity we’d probably all be hanging much longer sets).

Are you only hanging 10 minutes because of discomfort?

You wrote in your post that you’re not experiencing fatigue?

Why do you hang for only 10 minutes per set?

Four sets at ten minutes with a ten-minute break in between each set makes a total of an hour and ten minutes. If you hang two twenty-minute sets instead of four ten-minute sets (with a ten minute break between each) it should only take fifty minutes (which has saved you twenty minutes— almost enough for an extra twenty-minute set).

It’s generally believed that hanging in such a way as to cause fatigue is what leads to length-gains. In this sense fatigue can be considered a good ‘PI’ (physiological indicator). Maybe think about hanging in such a way as to achieve fatigue.