Progress?

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

Okay, I've officially started.

I just did my first session of the JP 90 day beginner routine and I feel quite good about it. I did not feel any pain (just dull pressure near the end of each rep... which I assume is normal). After my warmdown I felt a nice hang, as if my penis had been loosened up and stretched out (which I guess is also a good thing). It looked slightly bigger too, but that is most likely just a temporary thing from the increased bloodflow (I can't be growing already... aha). It may also just be that now that I've started this routine I've gotten a quick confidence fix that let me look at my dick without thinking "average" right away and instead see the same penis I've always seen, but in a better light?

Anyways, I also thought about my goals. As I said, I have not measured my penis recently. The last I remember I measured somewhere around 5.75 inches in length(I have noticeably grown since then... I estimate I'm around 6 and an eigth now) and just under 6 inches in girth (probably 5.8 or something like that aha).

I am going to measure myself in the next few days to get an accurate figure of where I am starting from.
My goal is to see if I can increase up to the 7 inch length mark by the beginning of 3rd year (that gives me just under 8 months). I don't care much about girth increases. I actually hope that my girth does not increase too much because I am already quite thick and I don't want to be so big that I hurt my partner.

Speaking long term I will probably quit PE once I have reached somewhere between 7.5 - 8.5 inches in length and 6-7 inches in girth.

[midasman1974 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close midasman1974]

Sounds to me like yu have a good plan. I think your goal for length is good, but, man, what are you going to do with a 7" girth?

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

Thats the thing aha. I don't want my girth to increase much more. But I know it may end up getting that much bigger from the amount of time it'll take for the length increases.

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

I just finished my second session. I payed a lot of attention to the blood flowing to my head. I feel like I've gotten a good rhythym going for normal jelqing now. I have a grip that I'm happy with as well.

I'm still getting used to vjelqing. The blood doesn't seem to engorge the head as much as I think it should. Is this normal?

I also tried using kegels to count the 4 seconds for each rep. When I do this I can feel the tug giving a little bit more pressure on my head.
I am able to stay under 70% erection for the whole session (maybe less).

I feel like I am able to use a tight grip without any pain/discomfort. I only feel pain if I am literally SQUEEZING for each rep. Could this be because of my girth? (More girth = more expansion = tighter grip accomodated with more blood movement)
Could my girth and ability to keep a tight grip pushing (what seems to me like) a shitload of blood without any discomfort lead to more gains? I am not being overzealous. This is just something I'm curious about because it seems to make sense to me that if you have more space to fill with blood you can use more force to fill is (and that space will stretch more because each cell, which there are more of with more girth, can stretch more).

On a side note: Could anybody explain to me the best way to achieve length gains? (preferably with a little less girth gain)

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

Okay. Here is the deal.

I've been interested in PE since around November 2010. I started doing a few "experimental" sets (not JP 90 day) during Nov. and Dec. My new years resolution for 2011 including giving PE a "real" try. I tried the JP 90 day and have been struggling somewhat to stick to it mainly because of technique doubts.

The past 2 weeks I've rekindled my PE interest and taken it from a semi-committed, inconsistent routine (some weeks I'd do 3/4 sessions, some weeks I'd do 1, etc.) into a full blown 2 day on-one day off routine. My main question is this, how can you tell for SURE you're getting a good workout. I've read the PIs and made some sense of them, but still am in doubt. Here is how I've done my PE so far.

I do a warm up for usually ten-fifteen minutes and mix in some tunica stretching while reheating the cloth. I then do the normal stretchings and kegels as outlined in JPs routine. I do 3 sets of 50 jelqs and 3 sets of 30 v-jelqs and then proceed to shower as a warmdown.

My technique is generally this:

I use a good lube and do somewhat tight grip and hold down with the opposite hand at the base as I do the rep (I'm afraid of that turkey neck thing from stretching my sack, and I want to make sure I get a full rep). I tend to do these with a little more than semi hard because I am not sure how to gauge the engorgement of my shaft and head during the rep. Should the head be "hard" to the touch during the rep and completely red? Or should it only be slightly inflamed and a bit less red? I am never sure if I am actually doing enough with my reps because I can't "feel" the rep unless I have a pretty hard grip.

I have recently tried more to just relax on the grip and just do the reps, but I still worry that I'm wasting my time and not using enough force. How can I tell if the workout is effective aside from the typical indicators? I KNOW I'm not the only one with these questions! I don't usually have turtling/negative PIs, even with my harder grip (only a few times when I was experimenting with grip did I experience negative PIs). However, I'm not sure if I notice any positive PIs either...

Can somebody help me and explain a way that you can be sure that you are getting the "perfect" rep?
And a second concern (unrelated to original topic):

Since starting some PE I have noticed slight decrease in my ability to "last" during sex. This could be purely psychological stemming from my doubt that PE is working and my stress over trying to find proof that it IS working, specifically during sex and edging.

On a lighter note I have seen an increase in my kegel ability! I can hold the squeeze for around 10 seconds each (and work up to 30 reps, up to 2/3 sets of that). This has DEFINITELY given me the ability to "shoot" when I ejaculate again. When I was younger (14/15) I would always shoot. This went away a bit the past 2 years and has only came back in the past week of focusing HARD on PE, particularly kegels.

And finally, I have also noticed that my flaccid is hanging much lower and that my EL SEEMS to be longer than it was when I started. I have been kind of lazy with measuring and have not tried to keep my stats up to date (out of fear of discouragement). The problem is that my girth also SEEMS to be decreasing.

All of this part of my post could be purely psychological, but I am mainly curious if anyone else had similar doubts during their PE journey that they pushed through to find success.