That's not true. Because when you stretch, you can directly control the amount of pressure. If you need more pressure, you can pull a little harder. So, I don't know where you get that reasoning. Manual is always more controlled and easy to re-adapt position.
C'mon, you gotta read my posts better. I said
when you are doing a manual stretch you are using an unknown amount of tension. This is absolutely true. Yes, you can control the amount of force dynamically with manual stretching, but do you actually
know what that force is? Hanging is much more controlled in terms of keeping a constant rate of force. With manual stretching you could be exerting 5 N one second, then 4 N the next second, then 6 N the next. There's really no way to know.
Also, you don't need to hang to target the tunica or ligaments;
Of course not, and I didn't claim otherwise Any kind of stretching will target the tunica and ligaments. Hanging just happens to do it in the most controlled and efficient way. Hanging and extending are the most efficient methods because they correctly follow biomechanics and the properties of materials (stress, strain, creep, etc.) and you are using known forces that you can slowly increase over time in order to milk every single little gain.
also with hanging, you need to test where one lbs is enough or a little too much on the ligaments.
Not really sure what you're trying to say here. I can assure you that more than 1 lb of force is exerted when you hold manual stretches. It would be an extraordinary circumstance if 1 lb was "too much" for someone's ligaments. 1 lb is nothing.
Now, whatever you decide to do is up to you, but for the record, hanging is advanced and should not be recommended to a novice of PE where it is more beneficial to condition to PE first. You feel me?
I need you to explain
why you think it is so advanced so we can continue the debate.
My argument is that no amount of manual stretching will prepare you for learning how to wrap and attach a hanger. With 5 years of off-and-on manual PE under my belt, I jumped into hanging and I had NO clue what was going on until I did some very thorough reading over at Bib's forum.
Nothing prepared me for learning how to wrap and attach properly.
All of the information you need to start hanging is out there and fairly easy to find, but I do admit there needs to be a larger guide to hanging that pulls information from all of these sources, including pictures and videos, and puts them all in one place so newbies do not have to go on an easter egg hunt to find them. PE information in general, not just hanging info, is way too scattered.
Once you learn how to wrap and attach properly, you can start at as low of a weight as you want, and as low of a duration as you want. You could hang 0.5 lbs for 10 minutes per day if you truly wanted to start that low. I personally started off hanging 2.5 lbs for a couple of sets every day until I got confident with my technique. So in terms of stress on the tunica and ligaments, it is not advanced at all until you reach high weights, which you will have [hopefully] worked up to in small increments over a period of time, which is the
exact same thing you do with manual stretching.
Unfortunately, newbies are often just not willing to drop 100$ on something when they are not even sure if PE works or not. However, if they were to be presented with anatomical, biomechanical, and scientific information that establishes a SOLID base for the reason why PE works BEFORE being introduced to any kind of routine, I see no reason why they wouldn't be more willing to consider hanging or extending. This is the only obstacle to getting newbies to hang. Unwillingness to spend money and lack of readily available information.
For the record, I highly disapprove of homemade hangers. If you want to do it right, spend a little money to get something that is professionally crafted instead of throwing some random parts together and strapping it to your cock.
There is a LOT (get it? LOT? I'm so clever) of unnecessary fearmongering about hanging.
