Observations from a newbie

OK, I’ve only been at it for about 6 weeks and my gains are between .25 to .45 in length and my girth is up about .05. Length gains are listed in this range because I’m not confident that my starting measurement was accurate.

Observation from the newbie chair:
- You may think you understand an excercise only to later discover that you were doing it wrong. I was jelqing at too high of an erection level - it caused soreness and some negative pe indicators. Once I realized that I needed to jelq at a lower erection I started getting a much better pump with measurable results. I’ve been jelqing at about a 50% to 60% erection for the past week - I can really feel the blood flow much better at the lower erection. Some people on this site may think that’s too low of an erection level, and the fact is, it may be too low for them, but at the moment it feels just right for me - maybe my 60% is what they would call a 85% erection - who knows, we’re all different.
-Patience is a big deal - I had a scare about two weeks ago experimenting with an exercise that I shouldn’t have been doing (o-bends). Only did a few at 15% erection and I ended up sore as hell for days!! There’s a reason everyone warns you about going to fast. One of the tricky parts to pe is that you may not know that you pushed to hard until hours later and by then my friend it’s too late. So my newbie advice is take it easy - a small hard dick is better than no dick every day of the year.

-Listen to your body - really think about how you feel during and after a workout - If your getting negative symptoms then tone down the workout. Walk that line the best you can.

Congratulations; you’ve learned a lot in your six weeks! Thanks for sharing. Fellow newbies will do well to take heed.

Yeah, thanks a lot for your input. I’ve been PEing for about two weeks and have learned a couple of those things too. I learned that I jelq a lot better at 80% erections and that I can jelq in different directions.

I’m currently doing semi-wet-jelqs for about 12-15 minutes (4 seconds jelqs), doing this alternating pattern: one left, one right, repeat, one up, one down, repeat then two straight out and I start over. I really feel the jelqing and I feel some nice stretching, I actually like it a lot better than the regular stretching, but I’m going to stick to both for a while.

I have to say though that the other day I might have put a little too much pressure than my penis can take and I got some tiny spotting on the lower side of the ridge of the glans. It went away in about a day and a half, so I’m going to continue today with a little less pressure. I really wish my dick had a mind of his own so I could scream at him ‘Take it like a man, damnit!’, but sadly he just has to learn with time.

On the bright side, I’m getting a bunch of PI’s: less turtling, a fuller dick all day long, harder, faster, longlasting erections… so I guess I’m on the right track.

I forgot to add that the jelqing is kegel enhanced. ;) That really makes it feel like your pumping blood into that cock.

Sheshot, you are on the right way of PE. You got the picture - the most important thing is listening to your penis!

Keep up the good work!

Your dick wishes that he had a mouth so that he could scream at you, “Take it a little easier, damnit!”

But he doesn’t, so he develops tiny red spots instead. It’s another form of communication. You’ll learn with time.

Man you do it your homework, keep that way and you will see gains!!

In the beginning I feel the same way, as the matter of fact, 1 month ago, I change my way of jelqing, because I found a better way! You have to be dynamic

Hahaha, you have a very good point there.

That’s a lot of great observations. Thanks for sharing.

I personally found that I jelq much better at near full erection, but I’ve not seen a lot of girth gains so I maybe doing it wrong. It just feel better, like Sernind said, a fuller erection and less turtling the rest of the day. I think I still have to figure out what’s the best jelqing erection level for me.