Overtraining and Resting

I just finished reading SparkyX’s thread about Negative and Positive Indicators. If everything is going in the right direction, should I be waking up every morning with wood? If I woke up this morning with no wood, would it be an overreaction to rest for a week and tone down my routine? I recently added a warm up and stretch before sleeping, would it be better just to take that out instead of resting a whole week?

My routine consists of
Newbie Routine
10 min warm up
15 stretch UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT BTC Stretch standing and sitting
5 min warm up
20 min jelq
Cool Down

Recently added 2 weeks ago
hanging for 1 hour later on in the day, maybe an hour after newbie routine

Occasionally
Evening warmup and Stretch (which I believe might be the point of overtraining as I have woken up this morning with no erection because I stretch before sleeping)

any advice?

malax

Have you gradually raised up to this level or have you been doing this routine from the start?

And ONE missing morning wood is not catastrophic, so what does your logbook tell you (if you don’t have it start it!). Because the overall morningwood frequency is an indicator, not the single event.

Richard,

I has been gradual. I have been performing PE since july. Have only just started hanging and occasionally in the past week decided to double down on the stretching. What should I keep in the log/progress book?

besides the obvious like gains in length and girth? should PI”s be kept track of in the log book?

Your routine; how long for each exercise, any additions or deletions to exercises, observations, growth. It will help you stay consistent and show you when you are not. Life tends to get in the way of PE and people start to wonder why it isn’t working. It is usually because they are not consistent enough and stop doing what works too soon.

It will help you see patterns which will help give you clues to what is working and what isn’t.

You only have one dick, base all decisions on that?

malax

Beware for what’s coming now, because you have hit my weak spot: logbook keeping :-)

I am tracking…

On a DAILY base:
- when do you exercise
- what kind of exercise you do ( Kegels, jelqs, stretches etc.)
- the details of exercising ( e.g. 3mins stretches down/up/out but not left and right)
- all PI’s, especially night- and morning wood
- what other physical training you do
- what do you eat
- alcohol, caffeine and nicotine consumption
- general health state
- hours of sleep
- other general remarks like how you are stressed at work or events that influence your emotional balance

On a weekly base:
- weight and belly girth (am trying to fight my midlife potbelly)

On a monthly base my dick measurements
- flaccid dick values: NBPFL, BPFL, BPFSL, glans length; girth values base, mid-shaft, top-shaft, glans
- erect values: NBPEL, BPEL, glans length, and the above girth values; curvature values (deviation from length axis)

I keep all this in a huge Excel sheet so I can retrieve some graphics and queries. But that’s the Swiss perfectionist in me :-)

It allows me to help identifying sources of eventual problems in PE and at the same time to plan ahead my future routine modalities, intensity and frequency.

As Richard said, one missed morning wood is not important. There could be lots of other reasons for that. If you normally have morning wood and don’t have it for a week, then you need to scale back your PE and if that brings back the wood, all is well. If it doesn’t, there are other reasons, such as stress, alcohol, changed sleep patterns etc.

You should look at PI’s relative to what is normal for you. If you normally get a lot of morning wood and it has recently decreased, then that is a negative PI.

Take my case for example. Before, during, and after my recent 3 week decon break from PE, I barely got any morning wood. Maybe a semi erection once or twice a week. I very rarely wake up with a rock hard erection, maybe once a month. I attribute it to stress and poor sleep. Even so, I think I’ve finally started to see gains after a 14 month plateau. So no/reduced morning wood is normal for me and does not appear to be a result of PE.

Or trauma to your unit. Peing is not a race, take your time, do it right.