PNF and its application in PE: stretch further!

(Sorry for the machine translation)

Hello everyone. A while back I bought a book by Laly Ruiz (one of the introductory and driving force of aerobics in Spain in the 80’s) on stretching. It is small but very useful and rigorously written, with well-grounded knowledge (1).

Well, the author devotes a chapter to alternate stretching techniques or different from the usual, most notably the PNF or proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation. Behind this name, scary, lies a very easy application technique. In the words of Laly Ruiz, "is surprisingly effective, because from the beginning of the first session it shows a significant increase flexibility in a given joint."

The technique can not be simpler:

- Carry a maximum and isometric tension without movement on the muscle you want to stretch.
- Maintain the force for 10 seconds.
- Relax for 5 seconds.
- Undertake a relaxed muscle stretch and slowly.

I often applied it during stretching of the gym, but only now I thought about the possibility of using in PE. I searched on Thunder’s Place and there have been members who have an interest in the subject, as jimbo5, who used it in mountaineering:

PNFs

But let’s go to the point. I have tried to apply this technique to PE stretching and it also works. PNF can help us stretch the penis or make the stretches broader (in my case just over a cm.) This would be what we would do:

- Stretch as we do regularly (I suggest you to try with a stretch to one side, it is easier to verify the effectiveness of the technique with reference to the reach of the stretch over the pubis).
- Keep the stretch for 10 seconds.
- Relax for 5 seconds.
- Repeat the stretch for the second time. Your penis has to go further.

I invite you to try it and see if it works well with you.

(1) RUIZ, Laly, El stretching, la gimnasia suave. Colección Espasa Práctico. Ed. Espasa Calpe, Madrid 2000.

Here you are the original Spanish version:

PNF y su aplicación al PE

I has always been my understanding that for maximum benefit, a stretch should be held for 30 seconds before relaxing. Does the author make any reference to her 10 second technique compared to other time duration methods?

Sorry, Gprent, perhaps I didn’t explain it very well. The first 10 seconds are just a preparation for the real stretch (of 20 or 30 seconds -or more in the case of PE-, after the relax). So it would be:

- Stretch as we do regularly (I suggest you to try with a stretch to one side, it is easier to verify the effectiveness of the technique with reference to the reach of the stretch over the pubis).
- Keep the stretch for 10 seconds.
- Relax for 5 seconds. Now your penis is prepared to make your normal stretch.
- Do your normal stretch and hold it the time you need. Your penis has to go further.

For instance, if you want to do frontal stretches, start with that 10 seconds of frontal stretching, relax for 5 seconds and then do the frontal stretches during the time you use to do. Just precede your normal stretches with 10 seconds of stretching in the same direction, the same way, followed by 5 seconds of relax.

Those stretches work very well for skeletal muscle. I don’t think it translates over to connective tissue. So, it might help for the muscles attached to the penis, if contraction of those muscles are limiting stretch.

If that is the case, then contract those muscles, pull against them for ten seconds, let them relax, THEN continue with the stretch for a period of time. What that should do is allow a more pure stretch of the penis with less resistance from the attached muscles. It may make a big difference for some guys.

This would have the secondary benefit of making those muscles much stronger if you allow them time to recover from the pulling. I used to do precisely that to strength those muscles. I called it “kagals against resistance”.

You are wright, of course they don’t work with the penis itself, at least not directly. But I guess what happens to the ligaments when they can receive an extra stretch like this… Will they grow?

Many guys get good results from stretching, of which hanging is just a form of stretching. Yes, you can get gains from stretching, if you find the right amount for you.

I really, really want to know which machine does your translations. It seems like your English is better than mine!

Well… Google translation with the corrections I can make with the English I remember (I don’t study it since the high school).

Well it’s really good, as far as I’ve seen, there is absolutely no need to apologise for the translation.

I’m glad. I studied Galician-Portuguese Philology and speak other languages as well, but English is not my strong point.

Honestly, I would never have known.

What do you mean stretch it further, further then what?

So if your BPFSL is 20 cm, you do the 10 sec stretch at 19 cm, relax and then do the 20-30 sec stretch at a full 20 cm?

Dicko, try it by yourself and you will see what we are talking about.

I m a a student in gym activities and my last examination was about Pnf ans other strteching techniques.. It sounds fascinating and good to apply it to the penis but penis is not fully made of muscles and ,also, when we stretch it we aren’t performing an isometric flex but only just a passive stretching