Hephaestus' Log

[Hephaestus]

------------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.

 

[Hephaestus]

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..

 

[Hephaestus]

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

 

[Hephaestus]

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

 

[Hephaestus]

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

 

[Hephaestus]

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.

 

[Hephaestus]

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..

 

[donjelqer76]

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

 

[Hephaestus]

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

 

[Hephaestus]

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.

 

[Hephaestus]

5 more hours extending, 5 min of jelqs and 5 min firegoat rolls.

 

[Hephaestus]

More 4 hours and 30 min extending... damn.. I wish I did a bit more, I'm feeling ultra motivated >=)

 

[Hephaestus]

Did a matinal quick routine: 2 hours extending + 5 min jelqing.

I'll do more tonight

 

[Hephaestus]

More 4 hours extending, solid 6 hours today, nice!

 

[Hephaestus]

Could only do 3 hours and 30 min today, damn... Had a busy day..

 

[Hephaestus]

5 hours today, nothing extra, but still a decent amount of time.

 

[Hephaestus]

5 and a half hours today, some moderate amount of time. I wish I could use it for 10+ hours, but my actual routine just won't let it...

 

[Hephaestus]

5 more hours today!

 

[Hephaestus]

I've only been able to do more 3 and a helf hours today.. damn..

 

[Hephaestus]

4 more hours. I need to find some extra time to do manuals too, it will help on gains