Length Routine

Hello, I need thoughts and criticism of my current routine. I’ve been PEing intermittently for about 8 years now and want to gain 1 to 2 inches in length. My current routine varies slightly but for the most part:

2 minute hot towel wrap
sitting down - 3 minute straight stretch (up, right, left, down; about 12 minutes per round, for 2 rounds).
(I will stretch in these directions straight for 1 minute, add a V stretch during the 2nd minute, and straight again for 1 minute)
2 minute hot towel re-wrap about every 6 minutes
DLD Blaster - laying down. (5 minutes)
(I don not perform this exercise every session)
Rotary stretch - standing. After a round of straight directional stretching, I’ll perform a rotary stretch & re-wrap.
10 minutes of wet jelqing at a slow speed - for the most part, I try to do 7~11 second slow jelq. I will toss in a couple of quick jelqs
for extra circulation. EQ various depending on my energy level, how I feel & what I’m thinking. Usually no more than 40~50
10~25 minutes of clamping - I have a thought that clamping after stretching will help the elongated tissues get blood? Should I omit
clamping from this routine?
re-wrap
5~10 more minutes of jelqing - usually with lower EQ due to clamping
at this point, I will either end the session or edge for a while.

Since my main goal at the moment is length, should I remove clamping from this routine?

Which other exercises should I add/modify? I’ve tried hanging and don’t like it at all.

Please do not hesitate to give suggestions and/or opinions.

Lose the clamping if you want to focus on length.

How is your E.Q. After all that?

Yea, clamping is for girth. Loose it if you just want length.

Varies. Most of the time I will either have or be able to get an erection after the workout, which is when I will either edge or masturbate to ejaculation. It’s usually only low if I had ejaculated the day before, which is when I have trouble clamping during the session.

Thanks for the advice. Will clamping actually prevent me from gaining length?

Many clampers report length gains actually. Most of girth exercise stretch the penis length-wise, not just the width.

Hi, nice routine. I would increase the hot towel to 5 min at least. Remove clamping and add Sadsak Slinky Or Plumpep Bend

Would it help to add about 10 minutes of pumping to this routine in replacement of clamping, or would you also recommend no girth work?

Wow, those Sadsak Slinkys sure look painful. I’ll ease into them throughout this month. Are you sure 5 minutes isn’t excessive? I warm up sporadically throughout the routine. Do you mean 5 minutes only at the beginning and continuing with 2 minutes throughout, or 5 minutes each re-wrap?

5 min at the beginning and then 2 min its ok. I think there are no excessive min for warm up :)

If you do clamping, Sadsak Slinkys should be ok but of course, with carefull.

Shunsatsuren, I have to preface this by saying that my experience in manual work is limited, aside from standard, bread and butter jelqing. I started reading the forums here in like ‘04, tried some manual stuff (basic jelqing and stretching) but never stuck it out to see much difference. Basically all my gains have come in the last year or so from hanging.

That being said, I don’t really see any conclusive proof that girth and length work cannot be done concurrently if you are avoiding injury. Most of the detractors to this type of thing usually end up talking about “bigger noodles or rubber bands.” Not a very science-based argument. Even if girth work marginally increases the amount of stress required to achieve length gains as you gain in girth, the human arm is capable of exerting a LOT of force. And the fact of the matter is, girth exercises that rely on expansion (pumping, clamping, jelqing) do exert force laterally and longitudinally. This force might not be enough to achieve significant length gains on its own (although some have reported them), but it certainly will not hurt, and there may even be a bit of synergy.

So if you want girth as well as length, go for it. If it is not working for you, you can always decondition and try something else.

Roots

Also, I just wanted to ask: why not hanging? Was it a comfort thing using a compression hanger like the Bib hanger?

And if you want to pump, you could experiment with packing the tube for a little extra length work. When you pack you focus most of the force along the longitudinal axis of your unit, rather than laterally. Before I started hanging I used a pump for about 1.5 months and right before my hanger came in the mail I tried packing a couple times. I didn’t do it long enough to gain, but the length of the stretch I got was significantly longer than my highest mark on the cylinder, and by the end of a session my head was bumping the top of the cylinder. If you do try packing, use a lot of lube!

The reason I have for not hanging is discomfort & paranoia. The hanger itself wasn’t very comfortable, I didn’t have the right type of weights that go directly on the hook so I was using weighted plates tied to the hanger from a rope, which made the weight hang a lot lower than the hanger designed (I think). Also, the pulling of my penis made it very, very thin looking and gave me an irrational fear of it snapping off, so I never hung more than 2.5 pounds. The hanger sat just above the head, so it’s not like there was much support.

The problem I have with the pump is that fluid buildup that makes my dong feel funny. I enjoy the look afterwards, but it forces me to jelq a whole bunch to alleviate it and for the most part it doesn’t go away entirely for the rest of the session. If I’m going to experiment with that more, it will have to be at the end of the session.

When you say packing the cylinder, do you mean pumping all the way until it reaches the “end” of the cylinder? That would require too much air pressure; I’d rather not go past 10 or about 12~15 max.

Another choice is that you do your lenghtwork in the morning then jelqing and pumping at evening/night. It’s nice to have a splitroutine like this and do it every other day.. or so many days you wish, before you need rest.

Shunsatsuren, packing is using either a very narrow cylinder that does not allow for much lateral expansion, or filling in the cylinder you have around the outside to make the diameter much more narrow. If you search for packing you will find good instructions on this forum. If the diameter is made narrow enough you won’t need significantly higher pressures to get a lot of elongation - even at a -5 vacuum you should be able to get significant elongation with the correct cylinder diameter.

And, no offense, but your qualms about hanging do seem slightly paranoid. ;) I can assure you that nothing is gonna snap off, promise. Well assuming you are even halfway careful and don’t hang like a complete imbecile - it sounds like safety is a big priority for you, so I don’t see that being a problem.

Also, in terms of sustained, long-term length gains, I think hanging is your best option. It sounds to me like you were struggling with your hanger adjustments and attachment. Learning to get these things right can be a tedious process of trial and error, but there are tons of threads that cover wrapping, adjustments, and attachment. If you play with things for a while until you perfect your technique, compression hangers can be very comfortable. Also, it is best to only use rope if you are hanging SO or OTS. Otherwise, use a piece of wire hanger to create a small hook. Weight plates are fine, I use them, but you should also make some smaller weights: a couple of 1lb. and a 1/2lb. weights, I used fishing weights, duct tape, and a bit of wire hanger.

I should also say, you don’t need to hang. You can achieve length gains just fine through manual means. I just enjoy the very accurate application of stress that hanging allows, and it’s theoretically limitless stresses. But some manual stretching and semi-erect jelqs (50-70%) should do just fine to produce length gains as well.

Roots

So, would splitting up the length and girth exercises into different routines hinder length growth, or possibly promote it since jelqing and pumping can both target length? If I were to split the routine this way, would you recommend not jelqing during the morning routine, or would jelqing be ok in both the morning and evening routine? Are you suggesting to separate jelqing from the length routine?