Avoiding knee jerk reactions to potential negative PI as a newbie?

Hey all, title kind of says it, but for some background I’m 29 y.o., fairly new to PE though have been looking at it for a while, and decided to take
Up the JP90 routine the other day. I started last week following the routine exactly, and toward the end felt like it was a little too much. I took a few days off to rest and recalibrate it a bit more to my level and started two days on, one off with 100 wet jelqs and 60 v-jelqs instead of the normal amount.

I take warmup and warm down seriously, 10 minutes each with a heating pad.

I haven’t noticed any spotting, my penis was a bit numb toward the end of the sessions, but that’s not an issue now. However, I did turtle pretty hard after the first session (2 days ago) and a bit yesterday and this morning (rest day), though as of 9:30 tonight my flaccid length has pretty much returned to the normal state.

However, I did notice that during the temporary shrinkage, my corpus cavernosa were really stiff, like the tissue was erect but I wasn’t even at normal flaccid length. I’ve heard of people experiencing hard flaccid syndrome and want to avoid that for sure, and as of now I’d say I’m about 75% of the way back to normal sponginess.

My question is this. While I know that every body is different and you have to listen to your own body, does it sound like I hit some negative PIs and need to back off a bit? Or is this just part of the body’s reaction to a new exercise? I want to get the JP90 routine up and going and be committed to it, but I don’t want to back down every time I get a little worried about something. I definitely don’t want injuries, but how do I interpret what my body is telling me?

First of all, welcome to Thunders.

To answer your question, It’s common to get some turtling and a firmer flaccid after intensive exercise, but it’s definitely not a “good PI”, that’s for sure. And certainly not for a newbie. It’s good that you are warming up and down well. What is your EQ like? That is one of your most important PIs.

I would consider taking a whole week off to rest, then restarting at a much slower pace. Just altering the JP90 program (as you did) but start with like half of that. Then ramp up in stretches and jelqs weekly.

Look into the thread “Linear Newbie Routine”. Its a worth while read for guys new to PE and I think you’ll get some good insight from it. If I could restart PE entirely I would have started with something similar, as even the newbie program here at Thunders (which I did) can be too much for some just starting out.