Abcdio's Progress Log

Hey guys,

I am starting this log as a way to document and keep myself accountable.
I have been in the PE game for three months now and have seen an ok amount of growth. I started with 7.3" BPEL x 5.1" MEG. Now I am at 7.6" BPEL x 5.35" MEG. I am not exactly happy with my gains because I feel like I lost a bunch of time doing things incorrectly. In this post I will therefore share my routine and learnings so far and how I plan to proceed.

April: On avg. 12h per day of ADS around the waist (Phallosan Forte). Tension was higher green and often also up to red band (translating to tension between 2lbs and 5lbs)
Result: Zero Growth
Learning: Tension over time does not seem to be effective for me. Also, it seems like I might have had some problems with keeping up a good amount of tension throughout the day; sometimes I did not see the elongation effect on flaccid length after a session.

May: 12h/day ADS + BathMate Water pumping (3 x 3min) 5x per week + Wet Jelqs (5min, 5x per week) + Manual Stretches (5min, 5x per week)
Result: + 0.2" BPEL, + 0.25" MEG, + 0.25" BPFSL
Learning: Good first growth, I would say mostly through pumping? It had the best feeling out of all exercises and I first saw the growth (which came all at once) after being in the pump. That day I pumped to 8" which was a new record.
As for the fully length-focused work, I was not satisfied. The manual stretches did not induce a stretch feeling in my ligs and I did not achieve more than 1% strain. Jelqs were ok, but I switched to dry ones due to convenience.

June: Same routine, slightly less ADS, warming up with with NIR pad for 20min before manuals
Result: + 0.1" BPEL, + 0.1" MEG, + 0.1 BPFSL
Learning: This is where I went wrong, I think. One of the main errors was increasing the pressure of the water pump too much too quickly. At the end I tried pumping to 8.4" which was simply too much. My shaft didn’t recover well from the discoloration and the donut was sometimes visible all day. It also didn’t really feel good anymore. In the end I also tried condom pumping, which did protect the shaft, but I feel like it’s a bit besides the point if I could achieve similar results with simply using less pressure (maybe?)

New Routine starting July: No ADS or manual stretching, but hanging (with heat) + Water Pumping (3x3min to BPEL) + Dry Jelqs (100/day) + occasional Ulis or Soft Clamping.
Intention: Since my stretching work was not very effective so far, I am switching to hanging which I heard a lot of good things about. Most importantly, I am constantly heating the unit during the workout compared to before where I just warmed up without stretching at the same time. Also, I will watch more for negative PIs from pumping, keeping the pressure lower. Lastly, I am dropping the ADS since it’s distracting in daily life.

Let’s see how that goes. The plan is to do the hanging basically everyday and I hope to see 7% of growth in 6 weeks according to other users’ experience.
If you have any tips or questions, let me know!

Cheers

Heat will cause more edema when pumping. You can get used to it, but you have to reduce the vacuum until edema stops, then work back up slowly after two or three weeks. Once you’re acclimatized edema won’t be a problem.

Alright, thanks for that info, haven’t heard it before. So I guess I’m on track with the current plan of reduced pressure, only pumping until BPEL. It definitely shows way less edema already and results in a better expansion afterwards.
The thing with heat is that I want to maximize its effects on collagen, so I am going hot with the water. My newest plan is to do a short round of soft clamping after the pump, in order to let it cool down in an expanded state. I’m hoping to leverage the same effect as seen in many hanging routines where the heat is removed in the last hanging set. Let’s see. Thanks for your support :)

Hey guys, I wanna share my simple hanging routine here. It is one hour long and only has three different phases. I am using a vacuum hanger and a NIR (Near-Infrared) pad wrapped around the unit for heating.
I also have another pad and a cherry pit pillow for the pubic bone area, to warm up the ligs there.

1) 20min hanging with heat @ 1.25kg (The heat is on from the start, but it takes time to go to maximum temperature)
2) 20min hanging with heat @ 2.5kg (Heat is there, and doubling the weight feels good)
3) 20min hanging without heat @ 2.5kg (In the cool down, I hope to freeze the stretched collagen tissues into place)

Even though it takes an hour, I would say the overall time effort is only 15min, since I can work at my standing desk with this setup.

The one thing I’m not yet sure of is whether the temperature is enough to reach the therapeutic zone. I am so far not feeling any signs of burn on the skin, so maybe I need another pad. I will get a thermometer to check.

I’ve only done this routine four times yet, however I have already seen a post-routine BPFSL of 8.4" which is a 0.15" increase to after the first session. I am convinced.

Please let me know if I can do something better.
Cheers

I felt that pumping to 7.6" BPEL was still inducing too much edema and in combination with the hanging, my unit felt really tired that day. So next day, I decided to go down to 7.2", which is honestly less than I’ve ever done. But at least it’s not inducing any problems so far.

Today was the weekly measuring day, and I saw the following:

+0.125" in BPFSL (8.25")
+-0.0" in BPEL (7.625")
-0.1" in MEG (5.25")

Now, that is obviously quite the mixed result after my first week of the new routine. (Note: is has mostly been hanging and pumping, no Jelqs because they didn’t fit the schedule)

I am wondering whether this is a definitive sign of overtraining in the pumping area. On the other hand, the pressure I have been applying has been lower ever since the decon anyways, so that doesn’t make sense. For context, you have to know that before the decon I actually condom-pumped to 8.4" and got a final measure of 5.45" MEG, which went down to 5.35" after the decon.
A possible reason that it’s not overtraining might be following: I am converting girth to length via the hanging (?). I had seen multiple times in the past that if I increased girth, e.g. With clamping, my length decreased - so maybe now it’s the other way around. In addition, I am currently in a phase without sexual interactions and no Cialis. This could also effect girth negatively. Can someone please give me their expertise on why I am seeing this?

Cheers