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Hanged more 1x set this morning and did 30 jelqs.. My dick is feeling sore today and I don't wanna risk it..

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So, I guess I've been taking a few days off because I don't wanna risk getting injuried again. I won't simply stop hanging, just trying to do what I think it's the best for me, and right now, my body is telling me: don't overdo it.

My penis is way better than yesterday, which it felt really ''tired'' and sore. I think that my technique still needs lots of improvement, and everyday I'm discovering something new. I'll be doing several warm rice socks today and some jelqs. Maybe, depending on how my unit is at the end of the day, I'll hang 1 light set for 15 minutes to avoid my ligs to completely heal from previous hanging deformations.

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Ok.. way better but not 100% better.. hanging still seem like a stupid idead. Damn.. and I was pretty sure I could see some new gains.. I'll have to wait more.. did 50 light jelqs this morning, that's all..

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Still won't do any hanging, even knowing that my penis is already way better. Did a rice sock heating and 150 jelqs.

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Well.. did a warm rice sock today and 100 jelqs. I've send an e-mail to bib himself.. I hope he can help me too =).
I need to start gaining for real now! I'll get back to hanging in baby steps soon..

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------------1 YEAR OF PE--------------

Whoa! 1 year? Already? Time flies.. I guess it's true, after all the manual exercises, bathmate and improper hanging, I've learned a lot from PE, and even tough I didn't gain much in this year. I've been through various deceptions, injuries, fear, and yet, I still won't give up. It's time to start again and learn even more from my mistakes. I've learned that I have to take it easy when it regards hanging..

I guess that's it. I won't stop hanging anymore, fortunately, I didn't get hurt again and I'm reading about technique more and more to improve. I think I've already read all the articles here on the forum and on bib's forums. I'll take it easier than a normal hanger and wait for slow, steady gains, until I reach my goals. I've talked to many hangers soch as BigO and Bib himself, and he's been quite harsh on me, with reason, I really need to improve, I really deserved that injury, everything in my PE is up to me, and it's my fault I didn't get any decent gains yet!! But.. I won't let it stay this way..

It's time to start once again.. I won't fail again this time.. wish me luck.

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Hanged 2x sets today for a total of 40 minutes. Rice Sock to warmup and a hot bath at the end. That's enough to begin with..

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Hanged more 2x sets after warming up and did 200 jelqs...

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Didn't have tiem to PE today.. this sucks.. I'm feeling depressed about that..

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Well.. I didn't do much today, only 100 jelqs before I was told to stop PEing for a while.. I'm still mad about that.

I'll be doing firegoat rolls (thanks BigO!) to revert my discoloration, I'll take some time to write down what I'll be doing tomorrow.. Time to get some sleep

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EXTENDING

From today on, I'll start extending and doing some light manual exercises after a long break (1 month).

Extended for 1 hour today - Currently extending, but my male edge's tension is not getting high enough, does anyone here know how to adjust tension?

EDIT: Made it to the first tension adjustment! Success!(?) Also added some wrapping to prevent slippage, worked pretty well.

Well.. of the 4 hours I could be extending, I've wasted 3 of them trying to adjust the damn extender =\. No probblem, I'll call it a day and do more tomorrow!

My goal for tomorrow is 4 hours of 1200g tension + 10 min jelqing.

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Had some progress today! I've learned how to sucessfully set my extender up to 2000g of tension, but I'll stick with 1200g for a while. On the other hand, I'm experiencing some slippage after 30 mins of usage, why the hell do I slip in everything I use? O_O
Anyways, I'm gonna figure out a way to stop that as it's not an exaggerated slip as it was with the hanger.

Did uhmm... 1 hour then a 10 min break, more 30 mins, 20 min break, more 30 min, 10 min break and 1 more hour.
Couldn't acheive my goal today because of this damn slippage, but I'll still do some jelqs and work on fixing that lil' problem..

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1200 grams, IMO, is the upper end you should extend at. In studies, the extender was shown effective at 600-900 grams of tension (i remember one mention of one of the subjects gaining as low as 200 grams). I did a lot of time extending myself and talked to many others, the general consensus was that too much tension ended up hindering gains.

Good luck

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Nice! Then I don't even need to know how to set this thing at 2800g! Thanks for the awesome news don ^^

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Aaaaaaannnd.. more 4 hours and 40 minutes to my extender counter (1200g).

One more small step towards my goal.

I'll measure every 100 hours.