Couple newb questions.

Been doing the newbie routine for about a month now and made a solid .5 inch length gain (BPEL) as well as 1/8th inch of girth, I love how much bigger it feels when I give it the proper motivation, but want to make certain I’m doing this right. ;)

I tried searching for how much pressure to use when Jelqing but the only thing I can seem to find is that you can go too tight, but not too. I like to go tight enough so that I can feel the tension and stress, but one time I went a little tight and felt some slight burn from the stretch in my one large external vein but I slowed down to not hurt it. I basically go to just tolerable on tightness/stretch, is that the ideal?

Secondly, when Jelqing I go all the way to the tip of the glans because I’d like to try and get the glans a workout as well, in addition to enjoying it as part of the full stroke. This is also how I first interpreted the description of the Jelq on the info page and video page, but now I interpret it to mean only going to the base of the glans and then stopping, yet I can feel the cavernosa protruding a little ways into the glans, so I think it’s beneficial to do. I figure if it’s working I should stick with it since that’s the typical notation on the Newbie Routine and people moving from it.

Finally, I tend to do a jelq squeeze type of movement since not having a “base trap” I don’t seem to hold tight enough to keep the blood trapped and don’t feel a stretch, plus I lose the partial erection due to not feeling it as well. Additionally I get a noticeable amount thinner right where the circumcision line is up into the base of the glans, it’s hard to dynamically adjust my grip without the base trap hand. The base trap also functions as a turkey-neck prevention method and so far it’s functioned greatly that way. Is there any reason to not use the trap to force more blood into the penis? I typically also supplement this with kegels to get fresh blood in as well as help maintain pressure.

*Edit: forgot to add in a question on the stretching. I notice that to do the normal stretches (like BTC, or straight down) I really have to struggle to keep a grip due to the force of the stretch required/tolerable. So I wind up having to really clamp down to keep a hold of myself. This sometimes results in a slightly sore area where I do my gripping (I try to grab below the nerve) as well as during the stretch it kind of creates a ULI stretch on the head. Is this bad? If so how do you combat it? On a side note, this area has gotten thicker a lot faster than the rest, so I think it’s kind of beneficial even though a little irritating.

Am I doing anything particularly wrong? I figure I’m doing ok as I’m doing these little mods to the newbie routine, but I’m also being cautious since I fear injury more than I welcome being monstrously hung. After all, what’s the point of having a huge unit if you can’t make it perform?

Thanks for any replies.

Wow… You’ve done your research. Good newbie. Everything you wrote sounds right to me. I used to get sore like you mentioned, but I am not circumcised. I thought cut guys were tougher in that area, so I’m not sure if you’re doing that part right or not. I can only say that I stretch as often and as long as I can. I rarely jelq, because I think it is mainly for girth, and I’m not so worried about my girth. I find that when I am stretching, as long as I grab right behind the head with an OK grip, I can stretch for as long as my grip holds, usually two or three minutes. After that my hand gets tired and I have to switch hands. The skin on my head no longer gets sore because it has been toughened by hours of stretching.

You’re jelqing to the tip of the glans? Unless you have a very loose grip, bad idea. The thing is that when jelqing you try to push the blood up the shaft with your strokes. When stopping just before the head, all the blood trapped by your hand should be in the glans. It is a workout for the glans already. By elongating jelq strokes to the tip of the head you are literally trying to push the blood out of your penis, and that can’t be a good thing..

When stretching I use a ok grip just below the glans, and it seem to work well for me.

Well, the glans is so soft and spongy that it doesn’t really get a huge amount of force and it really is just kind of finishing the stroke the way I do it. I don’t sit there and try to make it explode with pressure.

As for the strength, I tried the ok grip, but I’m flexible enough in the ligs that I can’t get a good stretch with that so I typically use a two fingered ok, then my grip gives out due to the force of the stretch so I start adding fingers to spread the grip force out over the surface. The only time I really have problems though is after a hard day at the gym (torches my forearms). I’m going to chalk it up to forearm conditioning though since I’m seeing noticable progress in the ability to hold the grip longer. I typically shoot for a 60 second stretch and do a total of 10 minutes (2 up, down, left, right, then out) with a small break between each 60s stretch. Slowly worked up to that once I got comfortable with the stretches. I imagine it’s just my forearms having to get used to the work load.