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Good input, I think.
There still aren’t any serious guideline to fast (length) gains. From what I’ve read here, pretty much just only one sure point can be made:
1) Heat.
Heat is your friend. Good heating before and after jelqing is a must. Heating during exercise is also very good. It is harder to apply during jelq, due to jelq’s very nature, but an IR lamp would go, I guess. With stretching, clamping, etc - with pretty much any exercise that doesn’t involve stroking the cock, you can use “heat accumulator” gel packs. Get a couple, so one is heating up by hot water while you’re applying another.
All other points seem to be controversial to some extent. Though I’ll try to consolidate them in some form - the one that I will most probably be using.
2) Cold
Cold can be your friend as well. Cooldown after stretching is supported by theoretical research in other threads. Gel Packs can be used for that. On gratis.pp.ru, cold-assisted clamping is being evaluated, but it’s too early to tell.
3) Focus
This is about focusing on one exercise, and only one, then switching to another completely. It is rarely done, but it seems that some people which seem to do so, gain quick.
4) Very gradual loading
This is what seem to be the core of “Less is More” conception. Every bit of gain is squeezed out of a given load level, before moving to next one. Plus, it avoids conditioning. My guess is that it’s better to reduce load during each workout, but have less days off - though not too little.
Girth-effecting exercises, such as jelq, clamp, etc. Should have days off - at about 2:1 to 2.5:1 proportion.
Length-only exercises require much less days off, but once in a week would be good, I’d guess.
5) Deconditioning
A very good thing, but from other point of view - it’s the time you lose, while you could’ve been gaining. So it’s better just to not get conditioned. Still, once in a while, they are recommended. Sadly, we don’t seem to know the optimum between hard load, big gain, long decon, and less load, less gain, no decon.
6) Reaching plastic deformation
This is a broad thing, and quite elusive. It supports use of low-load ADS to take all the elastic deformation, and prepare the tissue + manual stretch to plastic deform, or at least longer low-load manual stretches, followed by shorter high-load ones.
With girth, it is more problematic. It seems that girth gains take more time to heal + different people have different tunica types. But still, I guess that the same principle can be applied here - say, do some low-level clamping (there is a thread on it somewhere), then do classic high-load clamping.
With jelquing, it can be simplified to jelquing with relatively strong grip, with rather long strokes - 5-7 seconds. Augment last (10-20%) jelqs with kegels to push additional blood.
Eh, not very guidelinish.. But at least something to look for. You have to think systematically when designing routine, and having some notes is good, so you don’t forget anything.