Sparkyx asked me to chime in. I don’t consider myself a “big gainer,” having racked up a mere 7/8” to 1” in nearly two years of PE.
I did get very good gains in the beginning, however. The newbie routine, with steadily increasing intensity, got me about 0.5” BPEL and 0.5” EG. I feel I really hit my stride when I was doing 500 jelqs per day, 5 days on, 2 days off. I’d throw in some intense squeezes during each workout, to break up the jelqing. I would also stretch on my workout days. I don’t think I ever stretched for more than 10 minutes at a time (I found it very boring and hard to do).
I briefly tried pumping, but didn’t stick with it long enough to see any real gains (although I really liked the feeling).
I started hanging about 2 weeks after receiving my pump. By this time, I was up to 5.75 EG and was starting to worry that my girth was growing too fast. I put the pump on the shelf and focused exclusively on length.
Hanging was a complete bust. I followed the then well-accepted LOT Theory, and, since my LOT was around 8 or 8:30, focused on low angles—somewhere between SD and BTC.
I started with 7# and didn’t gain. I quickly increased to 10# and didn’t gain. I hovered at around 15 to 17# and didn’t gain. At 25#, my dick was starting to look very calloused and discolored, and I still didn’t gain.
I hanged for about 6 months with zero results. Zero. I decided to take 2 months off. I relished my time off. I had felt like a prisoner to my Bib Hanger. It was a pleasure to be free.
Once my dick started to look nearly normal again (except for the discoloration, which did not fade), I resumed some light hanging. Following the “divide and conquer” principle, I hanged 10# OTL to the right with a fulcrum for a couple of weeks, then switched and did the same 10# OTL to the left. I went back and forth for about 2 months. I also switched hangers. I put my Bib Hanger in the drawer (too many bad memories) and built myself a Wenchette, which I immediately loved. I didn’t measure any BPEL gains, but my erection quality was not so great, so I can’t be sure the hanging was ineffective.
After that, it (finally) dawned on me that hanging was not the holy grail, at least not for me. Or, maybe I was just doing something wrong. Regardless, I switched over to Mem’s Momentous Routine—intense downward stretching with a fulcrum in the mornings, jelqing in the evenings. After a couple of months of that, I finally noticed some movement against the ruler. I picked up 1/4”! My EG edged up as well, taking me to 6” if not a little more.
I still wasn’t through with hanging, however. I believed I had discovered something by doing Mem’s routine. What I think I discovered is that there is a feeling that I associate with gains. That “feeling” is the same one that I get in my hamstrings when I stretch them. I put aside all thoughts of weight, and focused on getting that feeling with the Wenchette. I adjusted the side straps so that it would pull harder on the dorsal surface of my shaft than on the sides. I hanged SO, and tried to adjust my posture until I got that “feeling.” Then I would ride it out.
I lingered at 15# or so for a couple of months. But the feeling eventually become harder to get. So I increased the weight to 17.5. This caused a new eruption of discoloration, this time on the dorsal side, which happened immediately during a single set. I took the hanger off, and my dick was a different color. I was afraid that area would become dark permanently, so I stopped hanging that very day.
I again started jelqing, stretching, and edging. I didn’t follow Mem’s routine, however. I just did it all in a single session. I kept that up for a couple of weeks. At the end of that time, my best erection showed another 1/8 to 1/4” gain. That brings me to where I am today—about 1” longer and 1” fatter than I was 2 years ago.
Lessons learned:
1. Ignore the weight and shoot for the feeling. Sometimes, big weights just crush your dick. Go for the feeling, and get the most out of the weight you use
2. Don’t ignore jelqing. Jelqing is possibly the single best all-round PE exercise.
3. Find what works for you. Be careful about accepting any particular PE theory as gospel, clinging to it even after months of no gains.
Most of this information is best found in my progress log, which I am too lazy to link to or review now. There’s quite a bit of detail there, however, assuming you can keep your eyes open reading it.
