Ddiggity's Progress

I’ve been doing PE for a long time, but I have been very inconsistent through the years. While I’ve had some decent gains, I believe that when I’ve done PE I’ve gone too hard and didn’t realize my full potential because I didn’t give myself enough rest days.

Either way, I’m back at it with a 2 on 2 off routine, a less is more approach that some great forum members have advised. It has worked very well for me, the wife was even confused after I came home from a month away as to how my dick was bigger! First time that has ever happened. While I have gained over the years it has been so slow that she hasn’t noticed. She now thinks that maybe your dick grows bigger as you get older, haha. Maybe I’ll tell her about PE at some point, not sure.

Right now my routine is:

Day 1: 3 10 minute pump sessions at 4hg

Day 2: Jelqing always, mix it up with O-Bends, Ulis, hand clamping. I’m going to be getting a clamp in soon and plan on doing 2 5 minute sessions with that for a while.

I always use water when I pump with the brake bleeder because I have issues with my sack getting pulled in. If you use water, there is no volume in the cylinder for your sack to replace. I do have the correct size cylinder, my balls just ride really high up the shaft, which sucks. If anyone has good advice on how to get them lower, it is appreciated. I’m trying to stretch the skin on the lower shaft but it is time consuming and while seems to help somewhat, an easier method would be awesome.

I’m ONLY going for girth right now. I’ll probably be fairly long between measurements, but here they are right now:

BPEL: 6 7/8”
MSEG: 4.95” (Just a tad under 5. I can’t say I’ve broken the 5 mark yet, but I’m really happy about that measurement, must be where my wife noticed the difference!)

So I got the clamp in today. I did 2 5 minute sets. I used a washcloth to wrap before applying the clamp, it was kind of awkward. I seem to remember a pic on the forum somewhere where someone glued weatherstripping to it, so I may have to try that. Overall the expansion was pretty good, but not much better than after I do Ulis. It did give me a slight case of blue balls, too, which isn’t that pleasant!

I’ll have to reread the clamping 101 thread and see if I’m doing anything wrong or can make it a better experience.

So I found an old ribbed cockring type thing my wife bought for me a while back that we didn’t really like, about 1 inch wide, have been using that for my clamping sessions. Much more enjoyable experience than with the washcloth.

Now I’m getting kind of frustrated with the pump and my balls. I have to get the pump exactly right, I have to use water, which means I have to use it in the shower always. I’ve tried comfort sleeves in the past and they have always made the problem worse. My balls just really want to get sucked up. Even when they don’t they get so tight to the pump they can become uncomfortable if I don’t get it exactly right. I can’t have ANY lube on my nuts, which makes jelqing between sessions hard. I can do it all, but there are just so many steps my 30 minutes of pumping can take me well over an hour.

Any help on this? I’ve had some pretty major gains over the years and I think my ball skin is just way too high up the bottom of my shaft. I’m stretching it on every off day.

Also, I have a 1.75 and 2” pump. The 1.75 I can’t even get into without lube when erect, and I have the same problem with both pump cylinders, so I don’t think it is cylinder size.

Well…it’s a mix of cylinder size and pressure usually. And also, pumping while sitting versus standing will change your ball suckage rate.

Lower pressures have less ball suckage. If your mid or upper shaft is bigger than the base then you’re very likely to have ball suckage. Reason being is if the base doesn’t fit, it’ll expand to its comfortable maximum then bring in your scrotum to fill in that gap.

I found a solution in sizing a VelSeal cylinder from Pumptoys. And getting an angled entry as I sit while pumping most times.

I pump about 4 hg, so I can’t really go much lower. I’m usually sitting down in the tub, so I’ll try it sitting up on the edge, angled down as you said, and see if that makes a difference. It does make sense as far as shaft size, mid is probably slightly bigger than base, and glans is far bigger than mid. Hopefully clamping will help with base girth and will help to stop the problem. I can’t go any smaller than my small cylinder, though. Thanks for the reply!

I’m not telling you to go smaller. You have to size a tube to the biggest girth on your pens. Otherwise you won’t fit. However, base girth is usually biggest. And that is preferred for pumping as your base inflates to form the seal needed to make the vacuum work as designed.

If your base is much smaller than your head you’ll need to effect a better seal. Angling will have limited effect. This can be done with a thick silicone sleeve. Get one from Autoextender.com and cut about 2 inches to put around your base. I recommend a cylinder with a gasket like the VelSeal but you may be able to use a bare tube if you are in your smallest diameter one.

Try that. It should work.

The angling did help some, but still uncomfortable. I’ll try that silicone sleeve as soon as I can, about to head away for a month so might be a while before I get everything but I’ll let you know how it works out when I do.

So are you saying I should size up on my cylinder if glans is packing first, or just that I should size for maximum girth? The 2” I fit in even if I didn’t have lube, but glans packs almost immediately, should I go bigger, or is that okay? The 1.75” I need lube to get my glans in.

Thanks again for your help, what you’re saying with the sleeve and seal makes complete sense, I think it will work quite well!

Generally, after about 50% the penis packs the tube you can consider sizing up. It’s about comfort and your goals. If you can still fit comfortably packing the tube, keep on if that’s what you like.

In your case though, sizing up the tube will make effecting a seal more difficult. Your base is the issue here and until it is closer in girth to the rest of you sizing up in diameter will make pumping less comfortable and practical. Your only good option now is to get a silicone sleeve and figure out how well you like the tubes you have and then after your base grows you can better choose and effectively use a wider tube. Pumping is all about the seal. If it isn’t going anywhere neither is pumping. I guarantee after you use a silicone sleeve (and maybe a tube gasket) you’ll get a lot more done.

If you want and absolutely must size up then get a VelSeal tube. Their gasket is really thick and combined with a bit of silicone sleeve and lube would likely let you seal in a bigger tube (2.25”) than your current pair. This, is my best guess based on my own experience with that tube and gasket design.

Roger that, thanks so much. This is my second foray into pumping, the first time around I quit due to this issue and having a pump that was way too big. I think if I follow your advice I might actually even enjoy it rather than it just be a task to complete.

Well, I didn’t end up going away for a month but the wife is home because its christmas time so I haven’t ordered the pump accessories yet. I will when I can figure out a day to get them in when she’s not around.

In the meantime I’ve switched up my routine a bit, trying something new. I figure I’ll give it about a month or until I get my pump stuff in.

Day 1: 3 x 10 min Orange bends on front of shaft, base, mid, upper.
Day 2: Ulis or fairly light clamping
Day 3: 3x10 min Orange bends on back of shaft, base, mid, upper.
Day 4: Ulis or light clamping
Day 5: Rest

I’m not doing side orange bends. I don’t think they really help much, and I tend to feel a strange ache when I do them to the left.

I’ll swap out the Ulis or clamping for 20 mins in the tube here and there. I think I’ve only used the tube once since my last post though. With the new found hope that it can be not such a PITA from ThoughtfulGold, I’m just going to wait until I get the stuff in to get back into it.

So, I’m basically a week and a half into this routine, haven’t taken measurements yet, but I’m pretty happy with it. It is easy to do in a fairly short amount of time in the shower, requires no lube, and I can tell it is a pretty darn good work out. I’m 90% positive I’ve seen some girth gains from it. I’ve done O-bends in the past and they gave me a really good girth growth spurt, but it didn’t taper off, it just stopped immediately after about 2 weeks. I was doing them more in line with what Mr. Orange had said at the time, working every part of the dick for shorter periods (1 min or so). I think concentrating for 10 mins on each area could make more of a difference. We’ll see!

So I kept at the routine for about a month. Again, I saw decent gains at first with it, but it tapered off to nothing. Time to switch up again. I think the O-bends are just something I need to make sure I incorporate every so often. I am of the belief that they can get a little bit extra out of what you’ve been doing already, but are not that great on their own. The physiological reasons for it, I’m not sure, but its just the feeling I get about the exercise.

I’m still having a hard time getting the privacy to pump, but I did end up making a sleeve that works really well and I’m much happier with the pumping experience. Not having your balls sucked up makes a big difference!

Now I’m going to go back to jelqing for a while, I’d written it off for a long time, as I thought it was giving me poor EQ, but I’m gong to do it a bit different:

I’m not sure if jelq-bends are a thing, but here is my current routine/idea:

Up Bend Jelq x 5
Down Bend Jelq x5
Left Bend Jelq x 5
Right Bend Jelq x 5

4 sets of these, and a few Ulis or a clamping set, depending on privacy amount. Day on Day off. I’ve been doing it a few days and haven’t seen EQ loss, which is a positive. I think maybe my previous EQ loss with jelqs was due too too high of repetitions. 60-80 of these, which are quite a bit more strenuous, seems about right.

If anyone is wondering exactly wtf I am doing, I’ll try to explain further. If it is already a exercise, let me know what the name of it is!

Nice log! During your breaks from PE in the past did you keep your girth gains? Or did you have to lose them and have to work to get them back after getting back into PE?

Thanks!

I have never lost a whole lot during my breaks of either girth or length. Either way, the bit I do lose comes back so fast that it really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference for me. I think I’m a hard girth gainer, but an easy cementer. When I get an increase when measured after a few days off, it tends to stay that way forever. As I’ve posted in this thread, it is strange how I get little spurts of girth gain here and there and then nothing, but at least it stays, so I can’t complain too much. I’m really trying to figure out exactly what it is that causes it so I can take advantage of it.

Been a little lax on the log.

The jelq bends didn’t really lead to much. I’ve been doing some clamping and lots of manual stretching before and after over the past month or so. I think I’ve seen some gains from this.

The wife is (finally) starting to notice the size difference. She swears it wasn’t this big when we first met. She is certainly right about that.

I haven’t measured girth, but length is a solid 6.9 to 7 even without 10/10 EQ. Girth is feeling fuller but I’m not going to measure this for a while.

I’m doing a new exercise that I made up now. I really, really like it and I’m almost positive I’m going to see some good gains from it. I haven’t felt this good of a stretch both laterally and longitudinally in a long time. Basically it is like a Horse 440 but instead of squashing the shaft, you pull on the glans end for a good stretch with one hand and compress up towards the glans with the other hand, keeping blood in the shaft. I need to come up with a name for this.

Great gains man, youre almost at your goal !