Success with "less is more" ?

Has any of you guys had success with the less is more approach described in the thermo and newbie posts ?

Something like 5-6on/1off ten minutes of jelqing
or every other day, twenty minutes of jelqing and
and for both the options some stretches and pc work here and there (minimal though)

I personally have tried something similar and had good (for me) results from it, maybe 1/12 of an inch in a month for length and girth, but nothing like the crazy gains thermo or newbie had.

So how about you guys ? Any results ?

Since Aug.03 I’ve been jelqing inconsistently. I did 30 minutes of jelqs every other day. Sometimes I’d take a week break, sometimes a month. I’ve gained in between 1/4 and 1/2” in girth only.

>Has any of you guys had success with the less is more approach described in the thermo and newbie posts?

I did in the beginning.

Something to keep in mind when reading Newbie’s opinion is his name aptly describes his experience with PE at the time.

When starting out, less is better. Lucky guys with weak initial limiting factors can make excellent early progress with a simple, brief program.

Beating your dick all to hell won’t get you anywhere except injured. Overtraining hinders progress. Guys who start out doing too much but later wise up and use a more reasonable program for their level of conditioning will realize progress that didn’t occur when they overtrained.

The body is remarkably adaptive. An untrained guy who does one set of push ups every couple days for a month will get some muscle growth. However, he would be grossly mistaken to extrapolate from his experience that push ups on this schedule are “the true key” to muscle growth, and that everyone who wants to grow their pecs, shoulders and tris, regardless of conditioning, should follow his program forever.

IMO, less is more at certain stages, but a waste of time at others.

Tissues toughen with continued PE, but they also weaken from disuse. This is why guys who have been PEing a long time can benefit from taking an extended break. The rest kicks the conditioning down a few notches to allow better results from less intensity when they resume PE.

The goal is to get the most gain before the tissues toughen, or rather the most progress per increment of toughening that occurs. I can’t tell you the optimum way to achieve this, but I will say that deliberately trying to work up to intense exercise quickly probably isn’t the way to accomplish it. Some guys new to PE learn about Ulis, Horse squeezes, extreme Ulis (cable clamp constrictions), etc. and think they will gain better and faster if they get to those ASAP. I’ve seen the same with hanging, where guys actually want to be able to hang heavy weight, like it’s some kind of competition.

IMO, these approaches are backwards. Get the most you can from the least intense method it takes for you to progress. Your tissues will toughen over time. That can’t be avoided. Increase the intensity as necessary, but only when really necessary. You’ll have to gauge this yourself.

When DeBeers calls and offers to buy your tunica for grinding diamonds, take a break to allow your pecker some time to weaken.

When DeBeers calls and offers to buy your tunica for grinding diamonds, take a break to allow your pecker some time to weaken.

lol!!!!!!!!

Growth8x7,

You have described, almost perfectly, my routine up until now. 10 minutes of jelqing in the shower, some stretches and thats about it.

Result? Almost 1.75 inches in 4 months!

Re-read Hobby’s post. I think he hits the nail on the head when he says do only as much as you need to to promote gains.

I think that this is the real key to the most rapid gains possible.

Growth

I can get better girth results with less something like 5 on 2 off and maybe a half hour a day. But with length I have to hang till it cries for mercy.

I think do just enough to illicit gains would work, but it depends on the person.