Cleave's Progress: Creating a Monster

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Hello all,

Now that I've been doing PE for a few months I figured I may as well get a progress log going. In the last few months I have been pretty sporadic in my workouts due to time constraints and roommates but have been doing the best I can. I found this site just over a month ago and since then, I have tried to model something that resembles JP's 90 day beginner routine. As of right now I am working out 2 days on and 1 day off and my routine looks like this:

10 minute warm up with hot washcloth
5-10 mintues of stretching (left, right, up, down, with 25 kegels in each direction and helicopter shakes in between)
50 Jelqs (straight out with palm down) followed by 50 V-Jelqs (2 sets)
Warm down in a hot shower
*Sometimes I will do some post PE edging if I have time but that is only about 1-2 times per week

I had been using a liquid body soap for the Jelqs but am quickly trying to figure out a better alternative after a couple accounts of an unfortunately dry member . Because I've never really felt much of anything after any of my workouts, I'm considering up-ing the intesity a notch or two (maybe more jelqs with a little higher erection level).

As of 2/25/2010 I have a NBPEL of 6.2" and an EG of 5.5" meaning I've gone up .2" in length and .1" in girth in the last month and a half. Also, I have decided to stop taking BPEL measurements since you can't see that extra 1/4 inch anyway.

Eventually, I hope to end up with a NBPEL of 7" and an EG of around 5.75" but the length is more important to me than the girth is.

Next measuring day is scheduled for 3/25 and I'm hoping for big things! (pun totally inteded there haha).

[Pirate Retired AdministratorPEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close Pirate]

Cleave,
Congratulations on starting a log. I think that is an excellent idea and I wish that I had started one months ago. I'll let someone smarter than I am comment on your workout, but I do have a couple of comments:
-ditch the body soap and find something gentler! I use baby oil gel with aloe and vitamin E.
-keep measuring BPEL since it is easier to get consistent measurements than NBPEL, so you will get better data on gains
Best of luck!

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Thank you Pirate! I have been using a little bit of just normal baby oil since I have decided to ditch the body wash but I will definitely have to check out the gel and the BPEL measurements thing makes sense. I guess I'm just more focused on getting to a 7" NBPEL than anything else so as far as goals are concerned the BPEL doesn't matter quite as much to me. I will keep track of it though. Thanks for the input!

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My pleasure! Make sure you let us all know how things grow!

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

I just finished with a really good workout which consisted of about 10-15 minute warm up, five minutes stretching, re-warm, 3 sets of jelqs (50 normal and 50 V-Jelqs). I switched things up a little bit with the jelqs. I started out with only about a 20% erection level for the first set, followed that with a set at about 50% and finished things off with a set at about 70-80%, lastly I warmed down for about 10 minutes. I don't know about the science about this approach with the jelqs but it felt good and effective which I guess is all that matters at the moment.

I also used normal lotion as opposed to the soap today which felt much better!

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Today was a little bit of a tough day for PE (I had at least five people in my room pretty much every time I was in here) and I was really lacking motivation for some reason. I did a couple sets of jelqs in the shower with a higher erection level but didn't have time for much else.
Last night I was poking around on the forums though and decided to read KP's thread on "the pecker diet" and noticed that green tea seems to be very beneficial to quite a few aspects of PE so I went to the store and picked some up. I drank my tea about an hour ago while doing some homework and am currently warming up for my real workout. While I was at the store I also picked up some baby oil gel with aloe and vitamin E (thank's for the suggestion Pirate) so that I don't have to use soap anymore.
Hoping for a good workout and then a very restful night of sleep!

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Last night was a rough one and didn't much feel like doing PE which I think made the exercise quite a bit less effective. I warmed up really well and did a more intense stretching routine (about double what I usually do with some internal stretches and such thrown in there as well). I was just about to move on to some jelqs but got interrupted by a knock on the bathroom door and had to cut things short.

Fortunately I woke up this morning with new motivation and did my entire routine, warm up, stretches, jelq and warm down in the shower and I am seriously considering doing another later tonight. Just curious if someone else could offer some insight on this. I wouldn't make a habit of this but I have noticed that a lot of people have gained more substasntially from working out either more days per week or for a longer time period per day so I'm wondering if it may not totally be a bad thing. I'm thinking of giving it a try and just watching my PI's to tell me whether or not it is a good idea but some professional advice would be very welcomed as well!

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I have been lacking motivation pretty seriously the last couple days and have only done a couple of half hearted routines. They consist of about a 5-10 minute warm-up, 1 or 2 set of 5 way stretches with a few internal stretches and flaccid bends thrown in the mix, and the last two days I have only had time or been able to do about 50 Jelqs and 50 V-Jelqs. I did finally start counting one stroke with each hand as one jelq though which I guess means I am not really slacking quite as much as I originally thought.

I have also been trying to do my jelqs with a lot higher erection level because the effectiveness of doing them with a lower percentage erection seems to have wore off quite a bit. Off to do today's workout right now! Wish me luck!

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Living with roommates is tough. You just have to take advantage of free time. I take it you can't shut and lock a door to your room? If you can, I'd just do that. If they wonder what you're doing, just embarrass the shit out of them. "I'm jerking off, want to watch or something?" I guarantee they never ask again. If you have to, move your routine to a split. Jelq in the shower, stretch under your covers at night. The important thing is to just find time to do it.

Like I said to you before, the big gainers are consistent as hell. They find ways to get their routines done each and every day they are training. Go read NP97's log. He finds ways to get it done despite living in a house full of people. Personally, I just shut my room door and lock it and turn out most of my lights. My roommates just assume I'm sleeping.

Use progression with your routine while watching your P.I.s, especially BPFSL and EQ. I'd up your stretches at a higher rate than your jelqs because you want to target length. Your dick is already nicely thick.

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Living with roommates is tough. You just have to take advantage of free time. I take it you can't shut and lock a door to your room? If you can, I'd just do that. If they wonder what you're doing, just embarrass the shit out of them. "I'm jerking off, want to watch or something?" I guarantee they never ask again.

The only difficult thing here it that I have three roommates, one of which is actully in the room with me and two that are across a common room area. Fortunately though he is a pretty heavy sleeper so some under the cover stretching should work just fine (I did them last night before going to sleep). I also went and checked out NP's log and you're not joking about him having some serious dedication.

Thanks for the pep talk though G. Between that and reading some of the articles on PE taking time and the fact that I realized I am only 19 and have a bunch of time to accomplish my goal, I'm feeling much better today.

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I also took your advice on a stretching routine to heart and have decided to tweak my current routine a little bit. Last night, I threw in a couple extras which made my routine look like this:

- 3 sets of 5-way stretches with a minute hold and 30 kegels for each
- Four sets of flaccid bends (two up and one to each side) - 30 seconds each direction
- Two sets internal stretches (I am really easing in to these and starting out with fairly light stretching) - 30 second hold

Anyone have any tips, suggestions or comments to make on this?

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Just finished my workout and am feeling pretty nice. It consisted of:
- 5 minute warm up
- Stretching
- 1 sets of 5 way stretches w/ 60 kegels each direction
- 3 flaccid bends 30 second hold
- 1 internal stretch 30 second hold
- three sets of 50 jelqs with about 30-50% erection level
- two sets V-Jelq 30 reps each set.
I'm running in to a little bit of a problem keeping my erection level up as I jelq but really don't want to rely on porn for this. I did notice at the end of my workout that if I lightened my grip a little bit, my glans still got fully engorged but it seemed a little bit more enjoyable. I'm really looking forward to measuring again in a couple weeks

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Lightening the grip will remind your unit more of jerking off, so it should respond by engorging more. Also, since you are looking for length more than girth, I wouldn't worry too much about it. The lower the erection level when you jelq, the greater focus there is on length.

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Thank you Gator! I did it again this morning with quite a bit lighter grip and you're right, it does feel more like jerking off it all kinda made sense to me too when I thought about the way that an Uli works. I obviously wasn't gripping quite that hard when I jelqed but it made sense that a grip that is too tight would probably cause you erection percentage to go down a bit.

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Just got back from the gym a little bit ago which is the first time I have gone in a very long time (probably 2 months) and all I can say is woohoo! Not only were my muscles pumped but I was hanging low as well. I've gotta say that I could get used to feeling that way about myself!

What i've noticed is that when I work out the rest of my body, I have a greater desire to workout my cock so that it can match the way my body looks haha. I also feel like my workouts are more effective overall with the little extra circulation and a better attitude going into them that stem from exercising. Anybody else seen a link between hitting the gym and PE?