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[borbaksquatch Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close borbaksquatch]

My name's Bobby and I have been doing penis exercises on and off since I was in high school. However, my technique has always been shoddy and I have never been consistent.

I have read many of the posts on the PEgym forum and find this community to be open, thought-provoking, and inspiring. I recently ordered the book "Penis Exercises," a compilation of all the wisdom and experience that PEgym.com. After finishing it I feel ready to start up again with a journal and incrementally increasing regimen.

Going for a 10 minute warm up, a couple minutes of stretching, and 5 minutes of jelqing with at least 20 JAI stretches on workout days. I'm going to start with one day on and one day off and increase the jelq time gradually over the next few weeks.



I am curious about a technique I read about in "Penis Exercises" that I haven't heard of before: the cool down. Do you folks implement a cool down?

I am adding a 1-2 minute cold water soak at the very end of my workout. Hoping this will stimulate blood flow.

The cool down gives me an idea. I recently developed tendonitis in my wrist; one of the ways I have been treating it is with alternating hot and cold water soaks. The soaks are designed to stimulate blood flow, reduce pain, and ultimately speed the healing process. Could a similar technique be used to aid penis healing?

For example: on rest days, one could do a ten minute soak, alternating every minute between hot and cold water.
I don't know if this will work considering the anatomical differences between the wrist and the penis but it's worth a shot, right?

[draggin Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close draggin]

Warmth = increased blood flow and healing.
Cold = reduce inflammation and pain.

Therefore adding cold water after a workout may feel relieving, but is counter-productive for gains, in my opinion. I am under the impression that best results come from warming up and warming down. Heat is PE's best friend. But that's just me, and there is no right or wrong. Just do what makes sense to you.

[MrB8 Senior Member Member of the Month Nov 2013 Find all posts View Profile Close MrB8]

Hey Bobby, Welcome to PEGym!

Thought the quotes below might be of your interest

After a ‘normal’ PE session, I allow my penis to cool to body temperature under light stretch.

If I have had a very intense session, or there is any active inflammation, I allow it to cool naturally to body temperature, then ice it.

Bear in mind also that the penis takes very little time to cool all the way through.

Here are a few guidelines on the use of ice that I wrote for my patients. Obviously they are written to apply to musculoskeletal conditions, so use your common sense to extract what is useful to apply to the penis. If you are going to try ice, please read them carefully:

Use of Ice

ICE is simple, safe and very effective for many injuries and painful musculoskeletal conditions.

Ice in any form may be used - gel packs, water with ice in it, bags of frozen peas, crushed ice in a polythene bag - whatever is most convenient. Please don’t use ice direct on skin, it can cause nasty ‘cold burns’ or can stick, which is very unpleasant! Whatever you use wrap it in a dry or damp tea towel or similar. (Dry is essential in cold weather if outside).

Ice has a two-fold effect. Initially it decreases tissue temperature and causes local blood vessels to constrict. As the body tries to re-establish homeostasis, its effect changes to increase tissue temperature and dilate the blood vessels in deep tissue. These responses alternate.

• Cold applied locally to the site of the injury will:
• Chill pain receptors, decreasing pain
• Constrict local blood vessels, slowing blood circulation, stopping bleeding and reducing inflammation
• Dilate deep blood vessels, bringing nutrients to the area and speeding removal of debris from inflammation
• Reduce muscle spasm
• Decrease tissue damage

Healing time is directly proportional to the amount of swelling, so it is vital to control swelling as soon as possible after an injury, and not allow further damage to surrounding tissue.

How long to ice an area for depends on the area - icing an area for too long can cause cold damage. A finger for example will take much less icing (e.g. 5 mins.) than a thigh, and a superficial injury will take less than a deep injury. Generally no body part should ever be iced for more than 20-25 mins . If icing a wrist or ankle in water with ice in it, keep fingers/toes out of the water. Use your common sense.


When using ice you will feel the following stages:

Cold

Burn

Ache

Numbness

When you feel numbness has been achieved, stop icing. The treatment can be repeated when the part has warmed up again. Cold therapy may be continued for 24 to 48 hours following the injury. Two to three times a day is usual, although with a more severe injury this may be increased.


Ice therapy is generally very safe when used within the time recommendations above. However, it is NOT recommended if you have:

• Allergy to cold
• Collagen disease
• Circulatory problems
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Cardiac problems
• Reynaud’s disease

Additionally, ice should not be used over a superficial nerve or areas of impaired sensation or paralysis. If in doubt always consult your doctor before using cold therapy.

A word about the ever popular cold sprays. Although they have their place, I would not recommend them. They are difficult to use effectively. If used insufficiently they do the opposite of what is intended - they chill the surface, but no lower, which causes a reflex reaction by the body of increasing blood flow to warm the area. If used enough to cool deep tissue, they are liable to cause freeze burns to the skin.

Ice is very beneficial if any trauma (however mild) has been caused to the tissues, so I use ice after a session where I have considerably overdone it. Otherwise I just let things cool on their own while maintaining stretch.
Ice will cool the tissues - because the body wants its tissues to be at body temperature it will flush the tissues with lots of fresh blood to warm the tissues, once you take the ice pack off. In the process, metabolic and inflammatory by-products are flushed out of the tissues and lots of fresh, oxygenated, nutrient laden blood enters the tissues.

[Dangler Senior Administrator☼ Wizard ☼ White Tiger Award 2015 Find all posts View Profile Close Dangler]

Wow, great first post! I feel like we know each other. Are we related by any chance ?

You are going to do well. Good vibes reading your post.

[borbaksquatch Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close borbaksquatch]

Wow Mr BB, incredibly interesting quote you fished up there--thanks!

This gives me a lot of insight into how to effectively apply cold post PE.

"How long to ice an area for depends on the area - icing an area for too long can cause cold damage. A finger for example will take much less icing (e.g. 5 mins.) than a thigh, and a superficial injury will take less than a deep injury."

The Penis is definitely closer to a finger than a thigh (although many of us are hard at work trying to change that.) Moreover, I find that heat travels fairly quickly through the penile tissue during warm-ups so cold may travel at a similar rate. Perhaps the optimal cold application will last about 10-20 seconds and be followed by at least 20 seconds of rest as heat returns to the penis along with "lots of fresh, oxygenated, nutrient laden blood."

I am going to try a cold soak following Firegoat's guidelines after my PE this evening, paying close attention to the "Cold-Burn-Ache-Numbness" progression of sensations and allowing the penile tissue to fully reheat before subsequent applications.

What do you guys think?

I'll keep you posted and thanks for the info!

[TPW Senior Member Member of the Month Oct 2013 Find all posts View Profile Close TPW]

Welcome to the Gym Bobby!

[eternia Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close eternia]

Well, Bobby you had a lot to say! Welcome to the PEGym and you made a great buy buying "Penis Exercises" by by
Rob Michaels,
Dr Richard R. Howard P. H.

I hope to hear much from you and happy PEing