Now the most important tips. These will be a bit harder to understand and you’ll need to experiment to apply these advices; I’ll abuse a bit of my mod’ powers, changing and adding text and maybe pics over time to this post.
All the below ‘rules’ are strictly linked, to get them first you have to read the rules one at time, then when you have figured out what I’m trying to say, read them again.
1) Don't pull, hold
Ok, what the hell this means? To understand what I mean, do a little experiment; grip your penis and stretch it to it’s max length, with all the force you can comfortably apply; measure this length the best you can. Next day, proceed in a different way: grab your penis and gently stretch it to its NBPEL; you’ll need very little force to do that, about 0.5-1 lbs. Hold your penis at this length for 1 minute, then push it a bit further, again gently, and hold it again at the new length for 1 minute; repeat the same step for 4-5 times or anyway untill you can’t stretch your penis further without applying a serious force. Now measure and compare with the length you reached the day before: I’m pretty sure that there will be a significative difference.
You can probably have a better understanding of what I’m trying to explain by reading this post
firegoat - Length Gains
The reason is, your penis will react strongly to an abrupt force, fighting it, and no matter how strong yo’ll pull, it will not stretch. Instead, if you hold it at a given length for a while, it will accomodate to this lenght and it will be possible to stretch it further with no much force: this is called progressive stress relaxation. You have to take advantage of it, because, beside the further length, you’ll fatigue less yor body and you will be able to do longer stretching sessions.
2) Relax and breath
When you are manual stretching, you should relax into the stretch; this is linked to what is said at point 1); if you just relax, you litterally will be able to feel your penis relaxing into the stretch too; a sicure signal that you are doing it wrong, applying force trying to ‘win’ your penis, instead than gently leading it to a further length, is that you are not breathing regularly. So, always preserve a steady and relaxed breathing.
3) Apply tension with your bodyweight, wrists and legs, not with your upper body muscles
I’ve noticed many people on this board train regularly; so they think they are strong enough that keeping their penis stretched with the force of their muscles is not a big issue. This is wrong. Shoulder, triceps, pecs, they are able to exert a lot of force, but for short amount of times. Wherever you believe that you should always apply moderate tension or a lof of force (there are vets who are lean toward this thought, for example Memento, I think), time is more important than force. Pulling your penis with 100 lbs for 5 second everyday is unlikely to give you gains.
So what you should do, is to take advantage of your own bodyweight - expecially the upper body. Let’s say you are doing downward stretches; you pull with the force of your shoulder and triceps; even if you are a strong guy and are pulling with very little force, you’ll be fatigued after a few minutes. Instead, if you lock your elbow, and just ‘rely’ on your penis, you are applying a good amount of force without fatiguing much; to understand what I’m trying to say look at the pic tired.jpg attached, you’ll see the guy in the pic is not even aware that at least 20-30 pounds of his body weight are pressing on the table (note: if anybody wants to re-word what I’m trying to say in a better English, feel free to give advice).
In an analogus way, if you look at the pic I posted earlier where I illustrated the V grip in downward stretches, and try to do the same I’m doing in the pic, you’ll see that my arms are applying little or no force; the force is the combined effect of the bodyweight and strenght of legs (just have to contract a bit the calfs to augment a lot the tension) and is amplifed by the fulcrum.
In the same way, if you try performing upward fulcrum stretches as earlier shown, you’ll find that just torquing your wrist can easily augment the pulling force without much effort.
This is carrying to the next rule:
4) Learn how to find a comfortable body position
You have to spend some time focusing more on how to not fatigue your body while doing manual stretches, than on to the stretch on your penis. The key to improve your manual stretches sessions is to do long sets without fatiguing your body; if you only focus on how much force you are applying to your penis, granted that, without you being aware of that, you’ll put yourself in uncomfortable and fatiguing postures.
5) Think in terms of time under tension
There is definitely a threshold of force to get gains. You are not getting gains applying 10 grams of force on your penis, even if you apply it 24/24 for then years. This threshold will become higher as long you progress in your PE career. Once the threshold of force is reached though, the best thing to do is to maximize the time that tension is applied to the penis, instead that raising the force. The reason is, your penis is very strong for start, and can strengthen even more pretty fast, so after some time you’ll end with a penis so tough that there will not be really a way to apply a useful force on it without too much discomfort.
So, better you think in terms of time: keep track of the total time you have stretched your dick; if this week you did 3 hours, try doing 3 hours and half next week. An excel sheet will be ok, but personally a paper diary is somewhat better.
6) Make use of zinc powder in your stretching sessions
This is a small tip, which could make a world of difference. Zinc powder (baby johnson powder for example) will hel your grip augmenting the friction (a piece of T-shirt or toilet paper will help too) and will help damaged skin on the glans to heal faster without infections. Apply a thin layer when stretching, between one set and the next, and at the end of the session. Don’t apply too much though, it could go inside the meatus and we don’t know if that is a good thing for the urethra (probably not).
7) Make use of heat.
Although I’ve never abided to this rule myself, and although there are people who have gained without warm-up, neverthless there can be few doubts that heat is higly beneficial to avoid injuries and to speed up gains. A lot of people swear heat made the difference for them. The best way to apply heat is probably a 150 IR lamp; a rice-sock, the Aladin lamp and other methods still work good enough.
At the end of the stretching applying cold could help to hold the connective tissue at a ‘solid’ longer state; however this should be done only in the last set for obvious reasons; there isn’t much report of people doing this, so hard to say if that works in the real world.
8) If you are uncircumcised retract the foreskin
I see a lot of people posting that they have troubles doing stretches and then after a few posts they say that they grab the glans with the foreskin on, because grabbing the glans ‘naked’ cause discomfort. Well, you are wasting your time stretching with the foreskin on, plain and simple. Grabbing your glans will cause discomfort the first few weeks, than the discomfort will gradually disappear. If you stretch with the foreskin on: a) you are stretching mostly the skin; b) you will not be able to mantain the grip long enough.
9) Stretch flaccid
Sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Now, some guys find if they have a slight erection, say 30%, they have better grip. This can be ok. But remember the more you are erect, the less effective will be the force that is stretching your penis length-wise.
