Progress

So it’s been two months and I haven’t really seen much progress. I’m not about ready to give up, but I think a change is pretty necessary. I’m not entirely sure what to do.Should I increase intensity? Should I try some new methods? Any ideas would be very nice.

Well, I’ve been PE’ing for 3.5 months. In retrospect, I consider the first two months to have been a ‘warm-up’, i.e., preparation for ‘serious’ exercise. During that time, all stretching and jelqing (which was all I attempted at the time) seemed stressful and left me a little sore. I was gradually able to spend more time and apply more force, and have now added light weights and pumping, and am just getting into clamping. My rule of thumb was to increase effort to ‘almost’ the point of pain — a tricky threshold to find and maintain. And I also started applying more heat throughout the workout, by doing all my initial strectches in the shower, and returning to the shower every 15-20 min. during the workout (which is now an hour or more). A typical stretch now requires both hands to achieve that threshold.

In other words, don’t rush it. I didn’t notice any significant gains until three months and wasn’t really expecting much. Play it safe and focus on conditioing rather than gains. I believe you need to improve the pliability, esp. of the tunica, and improve blood flow, before you can do a really strenuous workout. Stretching and jelquing mainly, but also try ‘bundling’ (search for that term), which involves twisting while pulling. Lots of variations on stretching are available. Add reverse jelqs and squeezes judiciously. Remember that you’re a newbie for atleast three months :-) Above, all, learn to read the signs (search for “physiological indicators”).

I assume you are a wise guy and started with the newbie routine. A part of the newbie routine is increasing the amount of stretching and jelqing time. Do that.

When you reach the 3 months of performing the newbie routine you can add hoses, Ulis and clamping in your routine for girth and increase stretching time to more than 30 minutes to gain more length.

When you finally find a routine that give you gains, stick to it.

Smart idea, I’m nearly starting my third week of P.E.

I’m increasing what I do each week, for example: Week1 . I followed the newbie routine sort of a warm up which consisted of-

5min warm rice sock
2x 30sec holds of all the basic stretches
100 wet jelgs
5 min warm down
50x 2sec hold kegels

I didn’t feel I was achieving to much with that so I altered it a little bit by pushing my jelgs to 200 and adding a bit more pressure.

Coming to the end of the second week with no signs of any gains I’m thinking about upping my routine to this:

5 min warm up
2x2 rounds of 40 sec basic stretches (one set during the routine and another at a different time of day)
250 wet jelgs
5 min warm down
50x 3 sec kegels.

It’s like increasing the weight in the gym, if your not getting a response from curling a 10kg dumbbell try 12.5 :)