Am I doing this all wrong?

I started PE about a little less than year ago with stretching and pumping for about a month. I did not measure or notice any gains but it was only a month.

Started pretty religious 2 months ago with mostly manual stretching. I’d do 3-4 sets of 10 different stretches. I hold each stretch for 30-45 seconds. Some sessions I’ve stretched for an hour. Also did a little pumping and jelqs. Did that for about a month and then started incorporating girth with Uli, horse, dry jelqs, pumping, and bends.

I always had better EQ when I did my girth routines that lasted about an hour. After my routine I’d have a hard on for 30 minutes after and a semi for and hour. I’d also wake up at night with a rager the day after. But I never had good EQ with stretching. Just goes back to normal. Doesn’t turtle but doesn’t hang longer.

Length is my goal because I’m sitting at 5.5 girth and don’t need more right now.

I got an extender but couldn’t really get a good stretch from it and it cut off circulation too much. Rather do manuals. I have been experimenting with hanging for the past days with 3lbs. Can feel a nice stretch but still don’t get negative or positive EQ or PI from stretching.
I still do manual stretching consistently everyday.

I haven’t had any gains that I can tell. Maybe .1 of an inch.

Is it too early to tell?
Should I lower intensity or raise it?
Am I going at this all wrong?
Need some advice, getting discouraged.

Bump

It sounds like you dove in a little too deep here.
I’d recommend a 2-4 week Decon break. Then start with the newbie routine again. Go the full routine without adding anything else. Seems like a big issue for some guys is shocking your junk with that much work makes it resistant to growth. It just toughens up.

So basically take a break. Start over with less intensity. Less is more here in the beginning. I know that’s easier said than done because you are excited to see results. But that’s something you will have to get under control.

I also want to point out that you said you do manual stretches consistently every day. You need days off as those off days are when your ligs and tunica are going to grow the most.

Thanks for the advice. I’ll probably take a week or so off. It’s hard not to jump right in but imma try and take it slow after my break.

Motorboat,

It’s way hard to take it slow. I tried PE last year and did the same thing. I still hate taking days off now. But when I came back into doing PE with the right mind set of patience and going slow. I started gaining

Its pretty hard to take days off. Even with everyone saying its essential. The “days off” I did take, I still would catch myself stretching or jelqing. I’m going to try and bite the bullet and take a decon break and take rest days when I start back up.