Is it important

To do a heat wrap after you are done with your routine, or is it ok to skip it?

Personally I don’t do so myself. I really don’t see the need though I would get a more experienced person to confirm this

THankyou

You should do a warm up and warm down. At least for no other reason than to prevent injury

I believe it is probably more important before than after; there are differing opinions of course. Personally, I suggest warming up with water cup / rice sock / wet cloth in plastic ziploc bag or whatever and then keep re-heating during the workout. Scientifically there is more support to the use of heat before/during the workout than after. We had a member that talked of the need of cooling down in extended state, but I am not entirely sure of the scientific basis for that viewpoint.

Check out the thread “warming down the missing link” or something like that and “penile stress/strain relationship” (started by mbuc), there are experiments by mbuc with heat and ice.

:)

Hey skillz,

The warm-down (after a session) is not nearly as important as the warm-up (before a session). The warm-up is largely for your own safety. While the warm-down is to keep a recently worked-out penis in an extended form for a longer - than otherwise - period (kind of like an ADS).

It is OK to skip it, but it is advantageous to gains to keep it.

I’m a bit of a stickler for backing up claims - do you have any support other than the general “feeling” often voiced around here?

For heating up prePE and during PE it is pretty damn clear, both theoretically and by experience that warming up is good for tissues to avoid damage (ask any physical therapist). For gains the picture gets a bit unclear, but there is ample evidence that tissue gets stretchier over a certain temperature. See the threads I mentioned and Shiver’s “Benefits of heat in PE”. There is also a lot of anecdotal evidence of guys who say that they’ve seen no difference with or without heat, as well of guys saying they saw no gains until they started using heat. I am not aware of anybody saying that gains stopped when they started using heat.

I am not aware of any anecdotal evidence that gains started or increased after adding a warm-down, and I am not aware of any theoretical reason why it would either - if the goal is to keep the penis elongated longer, then weights or ADS is the way to go, because any warmdown will drop to body temp within a relatively short time. Having said that, it is enjoyable to have a nice plump feeling, of course.

:)

mgus,

Yes it is largely a feeling.

You’d be surprised of the genius of feelings, however. :)

In my high-intensity days (when I found Thunder’s) warm-ups would be practised by myself, a standard, once a session. I went from somewhere like 5.9-6.2 to 7 inches during this period - with slight to moderate discolouration that quickly disappeared. This tells me that one warm-up will suffice.

Around 6-7 months later I had an incident with cold-downs (use of cold water instead of hot, as the name implied), which plagued me with adverse affects like discolouration and the loss of gains. So bad was it, that I was forced to stop all PE activity (bar warm-up) for a couple of months - or more - while the discolouration subsided. This is an experience; the conclusion was that a cold penis is NOT a good thing.

After a break to get rid of that discolouration, I came back to PE with a vengence: almost triple the duration of warm-ups. This period of lax exercise (same or less as the Newbie Routine) but high intensity warm-up - two times per session and the initial warm-up half the overall time of the entire session – has brought me from that 7 inches to my current length of over 8 inches! With absolutely no new discolouration (one tiny mark is left over from the last outbreak), unlike my experience with one warm-up per session!

In conclusion this tells me that a warm penis makes it easier to get gains with much less intensity and duration, and that a warm-penis helps stop the out-break of discolouration.

This is why I believe a warm-down is good for gains. :)

Besides, I have to warm-up twice, because my second warm-up doubles as a cleanser to get off the lubrication - and stretching always follows. ;)