Suspense's Progress Log

[suspense2006 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close suspense2006]

Just got my new Bathmate Hercules in the mail yesterday and even after a couple sessions I'm EXTREMELY excited to see how much this thing gives me! Used it yesterday around lunchtime for the first session, just to feel it out and I have to say it was thrilling to literally watch my dick grow larger than I've ever seen before my eyes. Also used it this morning before work and it was even better.

Yesterday's session was a 4x5 min pumping session at medium pressure with light jelquing between sets to refresh things. Felt fantastic, had marginal temporary gains of about 0.2" in each direction, and edged after for a little while, but I couldn't help but get off, it was way sensitive! No negative PIs, nice hang for a couple hours.

This morning though was even better though. Took a little more trial and error to get it comfy but it turned into a 3x7 min workout, more jelqs between sets. I gave a couple extra small pumps towards the end cause it was feeling pretty good, no pain. Ended up hitting the 180mm mark, and it was visibly bigger in the tube. When I pulled it off and grabbed my dick it felt HUGE. Felt a lot thicker and fuller than I've ever experienced! I had to measure, just for curiosity sake, and it was about 5.1" (132mm) around. Temporary I know, but thrilling none the less. Still feeling really good, just that mild sensation of being a little stretched out.

Hands down the best investment I've made in a while. This is going to be quite a ride...

[suspense2006 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close suspense2006]

Been a little busy to update this in a while, but I wanted to check in after my first five weeks...

I've been more or less trying to get into a good routine and get a feel for what my unit can take as far as work capacity, and learning to get good at the manual exercises I've been doing. I'm also working on squashing some recent ED I've had.

For the first few weeks I mainly used the Bathmate for about 15-20 minutes per day, in a 5 on/2 off routine, with a handful of jelqs in between my pumping sets to get some fresh blood going. After that I would edge to porn for like 15-30 minutes, with unstructured manual exercises thrown in haphazardly. It was getting me decent temporary gains (nothing spectaular), but I've been doing a LOT of reading out here and it seemed like the best gains were realized by guys adding a structured manual jelqing routine in addition to the pumping, so I've started to do that.

My routines have been more or less this for the past week or so:

5-10 minute warm up in the hot shower
Two or three 8 minute sets in the Bathmate, with jelqing in between sets
10 minutes constant jelqing, 5-second reps

I've done measuring around 24 hours post-workout, and it's telling me I've gained about 0.1" in both directions. Flaccid is definitely hanging lower consistently now, but I haven't measured that since it can vary so much.

ED update:
I've also been seeing a new girl, and had a little ED creep in the first time we hooked up recently, and I'm definitely thinking it was the porn, so I quit that a week ago. Gonna work on getting EQ back from imagination/tactile sensations instead of high-def pornos. Trying to limit ejaculation to once or twice a week too, to help with that a bit, at least for a little while and see how that feels. She's probably coming over tonight, I jerked off this morning, but I'm feeling pretty good today

[kickinthemebs Senior Member Member of the Month Feb 2014 Find all posts View Profile Close kickinthemebs]

Woohoo, nice to see your log. Try to keep it active, I use mine as a little diary to keep my PE good. I log into it even when I do nothing or skip a day, it is sort of like a mini-punishment for me for being lazy.. As you can imagine, I never miss many days unless they are rest days

[popol5169 Senior Member Member of the Month Nov 2014 Find all posts View Profile Close popol5169]

Nice, follow kick advice, it seems you're off a good start.
Make sure you don't get too much fluid build up though, too much expansion after using a pump may be a bad sign.
Continue to read and gather knowledge on pumping, and of course on the bathmate.
Good idea to add jelq sets/squeezes in between pump sets.

[suspense2006 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close suspense2006]

Nice, follow kick advice, it seems you're off a good start.
Make sure you don't get too much fluid build up though, too much expansion after using a pump may be a bad sign.
Continue to read and gather knowledge on pumping, and of course on the bathmate.
Good idea to add jelq sets/squeezes in between pump sets.

Thanks popol! Always good to have something like this to keep you accountable.

I've been experimenting to see what vacuum level/duration/erection level is the sweet spot for minimizing edema, while getting good expansion of the correct tissues. I've read a little bit about how you want to pump and stretch to the limit of the tunica, but if you are pumping too hard too fast it starts to pull lymphatic fluid instead, which is detrimental to the tunica stretch since the fluid adds resistance to the strain and reduces the stretch on the tunica fibers. I was considering either pumping with a condom or getting a silicone sleeve, since I've seen a handful of guys have good success with those to reduce edema too. For now though, I'm feeling it out.

[popol5169 Senior Member Member of the Month Nov 2014 Find all posts View Profile Close popol5169]

It seems one of the main idea now is to pump for longer sets at lower vacuum. If you manage not to end up with too much edema and yet nice expansion, you're doing great. Your EQ should be through the roof (or close to it).

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5 min warmup in the shower
3x7 min Bathmate (slightly lower vac, worked up to 185mm on pump at the end of third set)
3 min jelq, 7 min v-jelq, 3 min jelq (~5 sec. strokes)
10 min masturbating, no ejaculation

6 Days No Porn
Couldn't get it up to enter the Bathmate, went in flaccid. Felt good tonight though, no pain or negative PI's.
Got it up fine after the workout tonight, but couldn't keep it up without constant manual stimulation. Chalking it up to a re-conditioning of my dopamine/serotonin system without the porn. Morning wood is great until I go to the bathroom, then a lot softer. Typically pretty horny in the morning, no change there.

Rest day tomorrow after 5 days on, it feels pretty worked over. Got a girl coming over tonight, will see how that goes.

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Had that girl over a couple nights ago, things went ok, but I had a couple close calls where my erection would deflate right before I'd go to penetrate, but I'd be able to get it back with a little tender love
My dick feels tighter inside the condoms at least, that's a good sign.

Day off yesterday.

Taking popol's advice and doing longer, less intensely vacuumed sets with the Bathmate. Just finished this routine tonight:

5 min warmup in the shower
2x12 min Bathmate (worked up to 180mm +/- on pump at the end)
10 min jelq (~5 sec. strokes)
10 min gentle masturbating, no ejaculation

8 days no porn. Had killer morning wood this morning and jerked off, still felt good throughout the day! Random chubs here and there, fantasizing, feeling more horny today for some reason. I started taking my Maca root yesterday again, figure I'll give it the old college try and stack it with PE

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5 min shower warmup
2 x 10 min Bathmate at lower pressure (never went much above 175mm)
~15 min low EQ jelqs (hovered between 20% and 40%, not entirely on purpose)

Thoughts/Observations:
Got a cold today, so I kinda feel gross (I would on New Year's too). It was a little turtley today, but I stretched it every chance I got in the bathroom at work. Drinking more water helps with those opportunities.

Lower pressure on the Bathmate gave me much less edema, but it took a LOT of willpower to not crank it as hard as I have been. Had a little trouble getting hard enough for the jelqs tonight, but I'm working on that. Thinking being a little sick isn't helping. Jerked off this morning, gotta get that under control a little bit better. No porn though.

Not going to measure again until January 20, which marks two months of consistent PE.

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5 min shower warmup
2 x 12 min Bathmate (hovered around 175mm first set, 180 or so second set)
15 min jelqs at 50-80% EQ
15 min masturbating/edging (no climax)

Observations:
The past week or so I've been adding short kegels while inside the Bathmate (50 per set). Kill two birds with one stone.
Minimal edema tonight, just a little fluffy when I pulled it out of the pump. None around the corona, which had been happening quite a lot. I think i've found the sweet spot for vacuum level.
Had an easier time maintaining an erection for edging tonight. Didn't ejaculate today. Delayed gratification is good thing.
The hangover/cold has been rough today, but I'm feeling better than yesterday somehow.
Taking PTO tomorrow, gonna get a nice workout in the afternoon.

Oh yeah...no porn too

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Slept like a rock last night, helped so much. Feel 1000x better today. Did a little edging this morning, nothing too structured, felt realllllly nice.

Workout tonight:
5 min warmup
20 min Bathmate (1 set, 2x25 Kegels inside the cylinder)
7-8 minutes jelqing (in a little hurry tonight)

Minimal edema (just a little fluffy), but still had a decent vacuum. Flaccid hang seems a little longer and thicker, still stretching it every chance I take it out. It's starting to surprise me how the flaccid looks sometimes now, it's kinda nice.

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Side note...can I get an Admin to change the name of my log to just "suspense's PE log"?? I don't think I'm able to do it myself

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

Done.

[suspense2006 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close suspense2006]

WEEK 6

Pushed my routine back a few hours to this afternoon, instead of doing it last night. Extra rest is never a bad thing.

5 min warmup
2 x 12 min Bathmate, 50 kegels per set
15 min jelqing
10 min edging

Entered the Bathmate at about 50% erect, for some reason I have a hard time getting hard rushing standing in the shower, with any one of my three rooomates potentially waiting for the one bathroom, weird right?...

Tried something different in the pump today. I limited the re-pumps to no more than every five minutes. I pumped initially to 180mm but left it for longer than I usually do, and too it up to 185mm for the later part of the sets (my max pressure is a touch over 190mm on the pump sticker, that I felt safe at). No turkey neck, felt nice and fluffy when I pulled it out, but not overly edematous. Finally getting the hang of this it seems.

PI's are good. Feels well worked, but not destroyed. Morning wood is usually enthusiastic, flaccid hang is hovering right around 4.5-5" NBPL (depending on how aggressive the New England winter is that day), which looks noticeably longer than it did three months ago from what I remember.

Trying to keep in mind that it ALL ADDS UP!! Every stretch in the bathroom, every kegel. In it for the long haul.

Rome was not built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour.

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Got my routine in late last night:

5 min warmup
2 x 12 min bathmate, 40%EQ, 50 kegels first set, 2 x 50 second set
10 min jelqing
10 min edging, finished it off

I want to get better at holding back on fapping to like twice a week, max.

Pumped to a slightly higher vacuum than what I'm used to this week, just to see how much I could take for just like the last minute of my first set, and got a tiny turkey ring on my corona, but nothing serious. The second set seemed to have a little more fluid build up for some reason but when I was jelqing it seemed to feel a little bigger in my hands.

Libido seems better, still (video) porn free, cause I stumbled across a suicide girls album on Facebook. My GOD those girls are hotttttt.

no morning wood today, but as soon I touched it, it felt great and go suuuuuper hard. Felt a little meatier in my hands, for whatever reason. Still not gonna measure till the 20th, which marks two months.

Rest day today, planning on hitting it again tomorrow night. I think this 18 hour rest period thing is pretty good. Not feeling overworked but still consistent stimulation. As they say in bodybuilding "stimulate, don't annihilate"...