Originally Posted by Jimmybob55
Here’s an idea that might help you. It seemed to have worked for me.
Whatever time I had set aside to jelq than I just jelqed slow and easy for that time frame. No I did not count. This allowed me to concentrate on the quality of the exercise and not just spouting numbers.I’d rather do 100 good slow jelqs that 300 bad ones.
I stopped counting and timing in the gym a long time ago. The number of reps is the number of reps my body will allow during that set. I still count some things out of habit, but I sabotage myself by recounting the same number over and over until I lose count.
See, you will psych yourself if you think too much about the finish line. I try not to hold myself to arbitrary standards of time and repetition, but focus on maxing out every workout routine, without over-training.
I jelq mostly in the shower in the mornings. No clock, no counting, but it’s usually a 10-15 min session with lots of variance in grip and I have fun with it. But not too much fun, which results in edging. I quit when I’m whipped, or when my wife catches me and asks what the hell I’m doing for so long in the shower.
Anyway, I agree 100% you should concentrate on the quality of every stroke (or in the gym, every lift) without holding yourself to someone else’s random count standard. Lift what you can that day. The benchmark is in the ~results~, such as increased muscle mass or in this case girth, ~not~ in the number of repetitions you can apply week to week.
Max out every time, and not one rep more. These are guesstimate goals, not dogma standards.
- Saul