Originally Posted by wma
I find it difficult to incorporate jelqs during stretching, because I lose a lot of time waiting for my unit to become flaccid again for stretching. That’s why I prefer to stretch first, then jelq.
Would it make a big difference if I jelqed first?
The ideal is probably to start and end with jelqing, and to do a few jelqs between other exercises.
Or:
You can do your main jelqs first to make the tunica more pliable. (It also supplements your warm-up). Then do your stretching, then do a couple of minutes more jelqing at the end, followed by firegoat rolls.
Or:
After a good warm-up, do your stretches to max out the ligs, then do your jelqing.
To put it another way, there is no absolute right and wrong. It comes back to ‘feel’.
What is immutable, is that the easiest to stretch tissue will always stretch first, and the harder to stretch tissue will only stretch once the easier tissue is maxed out. So you have to feel when the tissue is stretching optimally, both in terms of force and time. No one can tell you how hard or how long.
Because of different people’s different physiological make-up, the optimum approach will differ. Someone with very naturally tough connective tissue (hard gainer) will need more warm up and jelqing to soften up the resistance of the tissues before stretching.
If you have been concentrating on lig stretches, they may have toughened up (adapted) to the force and time you have been using, and are no longer stressed enough by it - they have become the ‘hard to stretch’ tissue, so you move your effort away from the lig stretches towards more jelqing etc.
Basically, if you can feel what is happening (and it does take a while and much mental concentration on the sensations initially), you will learn when to change the emphasis of your routine, or to add or substitute exercises.
But whatever routine you do; end with a couple of minutes of jelqs and then do firegoat rolls until your penis is back to the colour nature intended (or as close as you can reasonably get it).
That’s all more ‘how to stimulate growth’ than ‘more thoughts on how growth occurs’. :)