Originally Posted by Mick
I’m not trying to improve them, just make them more intense. Anyway I’ve been doing them as intensely as possible and trying just to focus on one area to stretch it as much as possible.No diagram, but they’re not too hard. Just be flaccid and bend and you should feel a stretch. Fool around with it a bit until you feel something.
My understanding of how to perform an O-bend is by clamping one hand at the base, one hand at the head, and instead of only pushing your hands together to cause an increase in pressure, you bend so that the pressure is focused on one side of the penis.
Imagine squeezing a ketchup packet. If you just push the two ends together the pressure is spread pretty much everywhere in the packet and if burst there is no telling where it would let go. Now, if instead you bend the package while squeezing the ends in. If it bursts, the side that is being stretched will burst. We do not want to burst the penis of course, but to me, this is the point of the bend, to focus all the pressure on one area instead of the pressure being spread all around the penis.
This is my understanding of O-bends and to me it sounds fundamentally different than what is being described here in this thread.
That’s not to say either exercise does or doesn’t work, but maybe the reason they were not effective or intense for you is because you were doing something (I don’t want to say wrong) different? :)