Skeptical Hanging

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OK - this will chronicle me hanging my way to 8 inch BPEL. I have a wooden dowel with measurements from my start to my current length. The gains were all from manual stretching. Although it would appear that the gains are quite linear I assure you they are not...I sometimes went months without gaining. In fact my last gain, I saw nothing for nearly 3 months until I took a short decon and started Ginkgo Biloba. They are as follows

01/04/10 - 6.4375 inches (Pre-PE)

02/28/10 - 6.75 inches

05/09/10 - 7.00 inches

08/29/10 - 7.1875 inches

You can see...the gains are getting smaller and smaller, and the time between gains is getting larger and larger. My routine was quite exhausting toward the end, sometimes taking about an hour and a half per day. As for girth, my beginning erect girth was 5.0 on the dot on this sowing tape, which I stretched out over my ruler out of curiosity one day, only to discover that the "girth tape" as my friends call it was shorting me by about 1/8th of an inch. Shit, I'll take it. I have not measured my girth, not once, since day one. I will deal with that when I have reached my final length goal of 8 inches BPEL.

Anyway, I made the muzzle, so let the hanging begin...

Pictures: Page 4 & 7

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Day One: 8/30/10

Hung 2 sets of 2.5 lbs for 20 minutes each set. One down my left pantleg and one down my right (of shorts, and it was for the most part straight down). Ten minute break in between during which I removed hanger and re-wrapped. Penis head was slightly cold but not blue in the slightest bit. Exactly how cold is bad cold? I understand that the circulation is getting cut off because the penis is clamped, so some coldness is to be expected. Also, I was surprised at how hanging felt...Really felt the pull at the base of my penis.

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Day two: 8/31/10

Again hung 2 sets of 2.5 lbs for 20 minutes each set. One down my left and one down the right. This time I did not remove the clamp for my 10 minute break, but I did take the weight off and applied heat to my penis. This was not as good as taking the contraption off entirely...I started to feel some soreness (possibly fatigue) in my penis and I kind of freaked toward the end. I'm not sure what good pain and bad pain is yet.

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I recommend you remove the attachment & massage your penis a bit during the 10m rest period. The idea is to completely restore the oxygen in your tissues before hanging your next set. The reasoning is that its pretty much impossible to maintain good blood-flow with a traditional hanging device. The upside as you probably know, is that there's no real limit to the weight that can be used with a traditional hanging device.

You mentioned a clamp, so I know you must be using either a muzzle hanger or a captn's wench. (most likely)

Warm-up = Key
A good warmup will increase the elasticity of all your penile tissues reducing the chances you'll get an injury. I can see you're probably doing this already (based on how you mentioned warming up between sets).

Restoring Blood-Flow Between Sets
I probably dont do my BTB (behind the balls) jelqs right, but I find a very gently type of BTB jelq can push blood into my penis between sets. This, and a few kegels along with massaging my penis while inside the wrap seem to really help restore blood flow. Be sure to do light jelqs after you're done hanging to remove the "dent" you'll probably see on your penis after hanging. Usually my penis is sort of dented where the attachment point was--light jelqs, btb jelqs & some kegels help me restore my blood flow, and I try to induce a mild erection after hanging too if the dent doesn't seem to be going away). Generally, after I do all this the dent is mostly gone. I then do a warmdown with a hot rice sock (of course not so hot that it hurts, but as warm as I can take where it still feels pretty good).

More Sets:
Normally I would say you can start with 3-4x 20minute sets per day with your previous PE experience, but your mild soreness shows you're already pushing yourself. Based on your previous PE experience you may move up to 5lbs or 10lbs 'quickly' (within a few months), but whatever you do, pay attention to how you feel. What you feel in your penis is more important than the amount of weight hanging from it. For example, I haven't been able to do my max weight for about 2 weeks now, even though I have had rest days. It's fine though-- I push myself each day & I feel fatigue.

Mild soreness:
This may come to be somewhat common place when hanging. Just try not to get so sore you can't heal within a day or so. For example. I had a 'noose effect' on my hanger because all teh weight went to a very small point towards the front of my shaft instead of being distributted along my shaft. I find that skin soreness & attachment point soreness have been healing much more quickly with EVO oil. Vitamin E is easier to get & works pretty well too for recovery. I do also find that Vitamin E heals my skin pretty well (actually, I altered my EVO oil mixture, I put some vitamin E in there).

Sharp Pain: Avoid it!
At times you may have sharp pain that defies any logic you can think of. Drop the weight, or do whatever is needed to prevent that kind of pain. Write it down, & perhaps later you'll be able to figure out what's wrong.

The Learning Curve
For example, I recently couldn't hang hardly any weight--this went on for days & I was perplexed at the ridiculous amount of attachment point soreness I was getting. I think figured out I had too much force going towards the front of my hanger (too much 'toe-in' / \ can create a noose effect). The noose was really cutting off blood from from my glans and making my penis sore. I had never had this before so it took me a while to figure out--I fixed my hanger settings, and now my maximum weight is going back up again. The learning curve never ends; as you hang more & more weight your technique will have to keep improving.

Angle of Attack
Also, I would recommend you target downward angles (BTC, SD) until your penis literally hangs straight down (shift your package downward by stretching your suspensory ligaments). This will maximize your suspensory ligament gains & then you'll be ready for tunica work. As a note, tunica work is not as effective until susp lig gains are maximized. Also, according to what I've read, susp lig gains are much easier than tunica gains (at least during early periods when you're first really stretching them).

Be sure to read hanging 101 if you have not already & also... Which hanging device are you using?

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Blink - thanks much for the reply. I am using the muzzle hanger, as stated in my first post on this thread. I actually decreased my time today to only 15 minute sets...the last 3 or 4 minutes of each of the 20 minute sets didn't feel right. Just something about it, maybe it was fatigue but it kinda bugged me out.

I read pretty much every thread on hanging but theres no doubt its one of those things you need to just do for yourself to really understand it.

I am going to work up to 6 sets per day (adding a set or two per week) while still at 2.5 lbs, so that i am hanging 2 hours per day, monday through friday. Then I will think about upping the weight. Right now, though, I am hanging straight down and really feeling the pull at my ligs // the base of my penis.

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Day 3: 9/1/10

Hung 2 sets of 2.5 lbs for only 15 minutes each this time. I warmed up for 15 or so minutes with the rice sock before the first set, and then removed the muzzle device during dinner. I then re-assembled and hung while I stood at the sink doing dishes for the 2nd set. It felt pretty good, and I plan on re-upping the time back to 20 minutes for tommorrows two sets.

I forgot to mention that in the shower everyday I do 2 sets of 25 JAI stretches to relieve some turtling that occurs after hanging. Same for today. Also, Tuesdays and Thursdays I did 2 sets of 25 Kegels as hard and long as I could hold them.

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Day 4: 9/2/10

Back to hanging 20 minutes again, 2 sets of 2.5 lbs. Everything went well except for the last 5 or so minutes of the second set I started getting a little horny. Nothing CRAZY but I feel like my penis head did fill with blood a bit. I'm starting to get the hang of things. I did the JAI stretches as usual but missed the kegel routine. I'll do the kegels tommorrow.

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" I feel like my penis head did fill with blood a bit"
Make sure you squeeze some blood out of your glans before you tighten the hanger. After you tighten the hanger, your glans will expand again (eventually while you're hanging), but it will be at a more comfortable pressure.

You're like me... when I started hanging I could only do 2.5lbs, and it took me 6 months to get to 8lbs. Millia got to 20lbs after 6 months. We both made good gains as well; although millia was doing just 1x set & I was doing as many as 8x sets, we both seemed to make similar gains. I only got to 10lbs recently (I'm currently doing 6x sets per day).

Anyway, about kegels--you can do them during your light jelqs while you restore circulation (after hanging), or during your rest periods (sometimes I still forget though).

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Dude I didn't even notice this. Hang on brother! I will read more about this later after work..

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Haha I like it Millia... "hang on." Bravo.

You and Blink are pretty much my go-to's on hanging and I've been doing a ton of reading and lurking around on this site. I'd be happy to have you guys comment on here with regularity if you feel up to it.

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Day 5: 9/3/10

Same as the past week, 20 mins hanging with 2.5 lbs, 2 sets. Gonna up the weight next week for sure, but I'll be taking off the weekend. Next week I plan on "upping" the sets to either 3 or 4, but if its 4 i might drop the time down to 15 minutes per set, or at the last just see how it feels.

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I don't think many guys were hanging about a month ago (guys just here at pegym), but it seems to slowly be changing.

It's exciting to see more guys doing it.

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I agree...I'd certainly say you had something to do with it.

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3 cheers for hanging!
And indeed, before I used to get a lot of PM's from people saying Idk if I should hang, blah blah blah, and now people are going for it! It's really a pleasure to see this.

How are you enjoying the hanging Skep?

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Hanging is going pretty well so far...errr I had a few questions perhaps you guys can answer.

1) How long to see gains from hanging, assuming that I hang 5 days a week? I should say, how long did it take you guys to see some gains? I plan on measuring once every 3 weeks.

2) I have decided that my max time/sets is going to be 3 sets of 20 minutes. This is due to time constraints. Does this sound OK? Blink, I know you would like to hang up to 6 sets per day, and yet Millia does only 1.

3) I heard somewhere that if you don't hang enough you will actually create a stronger and shorter penis. IS THIS TRUE??? if so, how can it be avoided??