It’s both. Here’s my take on the newbie routine. I gained 0.6” x 0.2” in 5 months with a watered-down version of it, and I’ve just added pumping to supplement it. The majority of people get quick gains from it. It has three simple components: heating, stretching, and jelqing. Most people continue to use those in some form throughout their entire PE career because they are the cornerstones of effective PE. It’s a primer in that it helps people learn how their individual penis responds to pressure levels, and pulling force, and workout volume and frequency. The exercises are safe, simple, and free. You do them with your hands as opposed to a mechanical device, so it’s easy to stop at the first sign of trouble.
It’s difficult to cause any severe damage with the newbie routine. You really can’t fuck it up. Let’s face it. We are men, and we want to get the job done as fast as possible with brute force and sheer will power. Our very being screams more is better! But this is a marathon, not a sprint, as they say. There is a physical conditioning aspect of the newbie routine, and in an entire PE career. The tissues in the penis do gradually get stronger and used to the pulling and pressure. I’m sure there’s some stuff that I can do now at 5 months that would have injured me on day 1. But in my opinion, the real value of the newbie routine is the mental conditioning: it’s a safe way to gain patience, consistency, knowledge of the penis, and maturity in dealing with one of our most important organs. The newbie routine provides a period to learn to “listen to your dick” so that you can effectively use the other techniques down the road.
I began pumping today, and done correctly it’s a completely safe exercise that anybody could handle at low pressures for short times on their first day of PE. But it’s not a newbie exercise because if it’s done incorrectly, it’s easy to severely injure oneself. Some newbie is going to pump to extreme pressure, for a long time, suddenly realize he’s in extreme pain, not understand how to release the pump, and rip his dick off trying to escape - and we can’t have that happening. Same goes for any other “advanced” techniques. Technically a newbie could use them effectively if they got all the prerequisite knowledge and started out very slowly and responsibly, but there’s so many people who would not do that and would injure themselves, and that’s why they’re not newbie exercises. We’re kind of playing with fire here by exposing an important and fragile organ to unnatural force levels using only knowledge acquired by people we’ve never met over the internet - it pays great dividends to start slow with the safe stuff and take time to learn how our own individual penis is going to react.
Some people use the newbie routine all the way. Some people use it as a foundation and add in other manual exercises. Some do it for a few months and then switch up their routine toward mechanical pumping / hanging / ADS. Some people add in the other exercises as supplements while continuing the newbie routine. Some people experiment with a little bit of everything and then put it all back together in the routine that they feel works best. But the same simple formula still always applies: heat - lengthen - expand. It’s all just different dosages of those three in different forms, tailored by each individual to their own needs and particular propensities for gains. Well look I wrote a book, time for an ending. Good luck mate.
