Why I nearly put them back in the drawer
My first attempts with stretching rings were uncomfortable enough to make me question the entire idea. The package had made progress look orderly. The reality felt awkward, irritating, and difficult to fit into an ordinary day.
The important discovery was not that I needed to tolerate more. It was that my setup was wrong. Once I changed it, the same tools became sustainable. That change is one of the central practical discoveries in the book, so I am not reproducing it here.
Pain was not proof of progress
What I can say freely is that pain did not mean the method was working. It meant I needed to stop treating discomfort as a test of character. A routine I dreaded was a routine I would abandon.
Sharp pain, burning, tearing, bleeding, or swelling are not book-marketing questions. Stop and speak to a doctor. The book describes my non-urgent trial-and-error; it is not permission to push through an injury.
What the book contains
The book explains the original setup, why it failed, the single environmental change that transformed it, the pacing, the setbacks, and how I knew when to progress. This page exists so you know that the early failure was part of my story too—not to give the solution away in abbreviated form.
