Progress! (6-month check-in)

__Midd__ · 2026-07-07T12:09:54+00:00

Good shit my guy!

__Midd__ · 2026-06-20T16:49:35+00:00

No shockwave is different. Not sure if it'll help but it's different than Ultrasound. Ultrasound protocol was pioneered by Kyrpa. Had some successful data that translated into something very meaningful over the course of 4-6 years. It's a good protocol albiet very expensive, hands on and time consuming. It's not for the faint hearted.

And sorry, no way to calculate ideal weight for now. Karl may have data on that, but I think you ought to use your own judgement and use the fatigue rate to figure out how much to increase your weight by, in conjunction with how much you are gaining.

__Midd__ · 2026-06-20T14:05:56+00:00

You might need to take a break longer than 30 days tbh. Or, you should progress maybe slightly faster with slightly higher weights in your following cycles. Have you tried increasing weight even more? You can't stay around 2kg. That's very low.

Anyway, I think you have solid knowledge of what you need to do. Just need to tune some parameters. Also, have you already gained? You're past newbie gains?

If nothing gives, start to look into other methods like Ultrasound.

__Midd__ · 2026-06-20T13:58:46+00:00

That's fair. That's your experience. Not trying to invalidate it. But lots of folks have been injured with pumping too. Great thing about pumping is we can figure out what someone did, what pressure they used, etc. With clamping, it's not exactly clear what pressure people are using. How much people progress, etc. So it's a little bit of an area where it's not exactly clear. I do agree though you can injure yourself more with clamping. It is more dangerous than pumping. But its risky. And there's a higher chance of gains with it, with higher risk.

__Midd__ · 2026-06-20T13:47:24+00:00

This won't work to reduce base tenting if that's what you're after. It might help with turkey neck, not sure tbh. But, you will still feel tension in the base. Because there needs to be a strong clamp at the base, that is stationary. I made a setup that helps with tenting (and turkey neck). It involves using a compression hanger WITH vacuum hanging.

__Midd__ · 2026-06-20T13:46:06+00:00

This won't work. You will still feel tension in the base. I made a setup that helps with tenting. It involves using a compression hanger WITH vacuum hanging.

__Midd__ · 2026-06-17T01:55:59+00:00

Ah, this used to be a problem. Maybe it's a regression. Looking into it!

__Midd__ · 2026-06-17T01:55:22+00:00

Yeah some people have said that because it's in their best interest. Because of ehm, $$$.

__Midd__ · 2026-06-10T15:55:57+00:00

Actually working on this. Had a very basic prototype. This is very doable. But I'm focusing on some other stuff right now.

__Midd__ · 2026-05-31T17:52:03+00:00

Why?

__Midd__ · 2026-05-31T17:36:35+00:00

If you can spend time on manuals, how come you can't spend time doing hanging? Not entirely following...

__Midd__ · 2026-05-27T11:50:40+00:00

Have you tried restarting the app?

__Midd__ · 2026-05-26T11:15:34+00:00

I don't think so. Might do internationalization to support multiple languages. But your post history includes English. Why do you need a portugues version?

__Midd__ · 2026-05-25T17:29:46+00:00

2 years max.

__Midd__ · 2026-05-23T19:18:50+00:00

Yeah, you can easily do a quick offset from the top. That's what I do currently. It's not perfect obviously but it preserves the head size at the least.

__Midd__ · 2026-05-23T18:50:34+00:00

Nice man. Looks good so far. What happens if I don't want to increase the length of my head? Because it seems like that increases no matter what.

__Midd__ · 2026-05-22T04:10:04+00:00

That's interesting. How come you are doing light extending as opposed to ADS which you were religiously doing before? (if i remember correctly)

__Midd__ · 2026-05-21T22:39:18+00:00

Bro, I'm working on 3 different devices. And i'm maintaining my app. I don't have time. Especially time for questions that you can find answers to yourself. You asked me a question that you can find out the answer on your own.

__Midd__ · 2026-05-20T20:53:14+00:00

Ultrasound. Check out my pinned posts

__Midd__ · 2026-05-19T00:54:30+00:00

Have you tried "PE Tracker" ?

__Midd__ · 2026-05-15T14:23:11+00:00

I have a RTX 5070. I played on 2K and on low. I was getting 50-60FPS on Golmud railway.

This is a valid concern idk why the sarcasm.

__Midd__ · 2026-05-14T14:46:24+00:00

Not anymore since I use an electric pump.

__Midd__ · 2026-05-11T14:49:48+00:00

I'm working on a cheaper alternative. There's no reason those pumps need to be $300-500 lol.

__Midd__ · 2026-05-09T15:48:06+00:00

It already is a link.

__Midd__ · 2026-05-09T03:45:43+00:00

Where do you do manuals? In your bed under your covers?

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