CrusherBrooks's stat tracking and notes

Thanks for the explanation, makes sense.

W158D4,

For about a week after my last entry I continued to pump and hang. Then I started moving, now I’m living with family until migrating, so I have limited interest in PE. I’m taking my stuff but I’m not sure if I’ll ever use it again.

I’d have liked to end up with a little more girth but I guess it’s not in the cards for me, which honestly is totally fine. I was really just looking for a bit more “wow”. And if I stick to my current SO then really, who cares?

I’m edging, I should be kegeling but I keep forgetting.

Gym is going great and I’m going 4 times per week until my big move (keeping myself accountable though). Getting that V in my lower abs, shoulders getting bigger. Going to be making an impression in that respect.

This is possibly my last post, probably one of my 2 or 3 last ones. Maybe I’ll dig up my measuring stuff and measure. Possibly take a body pic at the end of my gym period. Maybe not.

Good luck everyone!

Good luck man!!!

God speed Crusher!

Back again…

Crusher’s back… Still no gains.

Guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back…?

So my life changed a lot over the past 4 odd years. I recently got a job, got laid off (because I was far too ambitious, for the first time in my life), and since my wife started her new job, I got time on my hands. Decided to whip out the ‘ole stretches, jelqs, and squeezes. EQ best it’s been in a few years, but no gains as of yet.

First order of business: recover lost gains.

Second order: do whatever improves EQ, then move that to a 110% intensity.

I’m stealth for now.

This ain’t your first rodeo. Keep us informed of your progress!

By the way… Have I missed any groundbreaking developments? I’m seeing some things about ultrasound, but I’m too lazy to figure out whether it’s a fad or the real deal…

If real, I may have to figure out how to set that up…

Thanks Andy, will do!

So I’ve picked up a few bad habits in the past month or so… Been drinking caffeine again, and watching porn.
The combination is not good for EQ. I’ll have to wean myself off porn at least, and try not to be frustrated.
I also really need to go back to the gym. Did pushups until my face hit the floor yesterday, and only squeezed out a measly 18. At least today’s muscle ache tells me I did what I could.

As for PE? I’ve switched from and OK grip to an A grip, partially due to some carpal tunnel pain and the OK grip is worse for that. Also the A grip is infinitely more comfortable. For those not in the know (or in case I’m misremembering the name), and A grip is when you grasp the penis with the gully under the glans between the index and middle finger, with the glans on the inside of your fingers. Flexing the wrist then grants an even better grip, so it actually feels like you’re stretching the tissue and not ripping off the glans.
My shaft is sore from stretching, specifically the cord, along the entire length. I don’t remember having that in the past, so I think that’s a good sign. I also have more success achieving a 10/10 erection after the sessions than I remember.
I’ve always noticed I have two forms of erections. Morning erections typically are more slender and smooth, as if there is an outer layer that can still be inflated, but won’t be. Sometimes I can get it to inflate by riding the edge, sometimes I cannot. This morning I could not, so possibly I’ve been going too hard. I did do some 50-60 jelqs yesterday (8-12 seconds each with supreme focus), while I usually do only about 30. I should also make my kegel routine explicit again and stick to it.

I’ve got a lot of moving pieces which will have to fall into place. I should probably read more theory, because nothing I’ve ever tried has resulted in meaningful girth gains… Maybe they’re locked behind length gains.

Stealth log (read this under a blanket only)
I skipped a day or two because a very strong grip left a single petechia on the glans, and I didn’t want to make that any worse.
The A-grip stretches leave me with a soreness in the shaft I never experienced in prior years. That’s good, right? I haven’t been super consistent. I also don’t really have a direction. I stretch and jelq, then edge. That’s length work, mostly. But I can’t resist throwing in a good squeeze when possible, because that improves EQ. It does almost invariably cause spotting, however.
Consider this: It only takes some 30 jelqs for spotting to start (with like 50% eq, minimum required for continuous jelqing), or a single 20 second or so squeeze. Maybe my penis is just really sensitive and I should take it much slower for gains? On the other hand I feel like I’m doing effectively nothing already. Something doesn’t add up… But I don’t know what, yet.

My schedule, roughly:
2 rounds of stretches, 80 seconds in the directions up, down (four rounds), left, right, out, and BTC.
40 jelqs
10-15 minutes of edging (or riding the edge 3 or 4 times if I get there quickly.

Weaning myself off porn, that’s going well. Caffeine…? Well, one thing at a time. Kegels are, as always, a staple. When I remember to do them.
I’ll read up on developments in manual techniques. Maybe I should contact a consistent girth gainer or two.

There has been sporadic discussion of ultrasound heating for years, but the boss thread is from kyrpa.

Gaining volume with Kyrpa

5.5Squared documented an alternative using an infrared heating pad:

Hanging with FIRe

Both methods are essentially vacuum hanging with heat, but there are many details on how much load is applied and for how long, and accurate measurements are critical for setting up.

Hi Andy, thanks for the pointers. I did do heated vacuum hanging (and pumping) for about half a year, but without results. I’ll have to look into the details.

I’ve been stretching and jelqing and squeezing, not really in any structured way. It’s hot, so I don’t use any heating. Trying to go light enough to prevent spotting, although that’s not really working out. Now, usually before I go to sleep, rather than stretching beyond regular BPEL, I just kind of hold a stretch at maximum length without much force. I wonder how hard other people stretch.
I’ve been thinking about how to progress. After all, this isn’t my first restart, and I always go back to stretches/jelqs/squeezes (although this time I’m going heavier on the stretches), but insanity is trying the same thing and expecting different results.

Maybe, rather than doing some sort of 2 on 1 off, medium intensity mixed length/girth routine, I should set up something else. I’d like to see if I can isolate the effects of individual PE sessions somehow. Also, IPR is a thing. I’ve been thinking about doing something like this…
> PE for 2 consecutive days, focusing either length or girth. This means full strength stretches or serious sets of jelqs and/or squeezes.
> During the remainder of week 1, edge regularly, maybe use some ‘hold’ stretches if it’s a length set. Make sure that whatever microdamage was inflicted isn’t ignored when remodeling.
> Take a whole week off. This means it’s a 2 week cycle.
> Repeat.
Since I haven’t seen many gains during my years of PE, I wonder if it’s really the grind that counts, or if it’s occasional “critical hit” sessions, so to speak, that result in gains. This approach would attempt to improve circumstances for the latter hypothesis. On the other hand, it’s the grind that matters if you use an extender… The issue with not gaining is not knowing what you’re doing wrong.

Take some time and wade through kyrpa’s and 5.5’s threads; there’s a ton of useful information there. I recommend opening a text file and pasting good bits into it as you go; the threads are so huge it’s hard to find stuff in them.

It’s heated vacuum hanging… but the details are *much* different.

I’ve been through them with my nose pressed against the window; I’d love to join in, but my fat pad is still too thick to get repeatable measurements. At the rate I’m losing weight, that might change by next summer.

After some reading up and stuff I’ve been experimenting with clamping again. I have this silicone sleeve that once came with the vacuum hanging setup, and when rolled up it makes for a nice thick band to fix my cable clamp on top of. It’s also a decent partial restrictor, although I’ve never had success using those. It slides around a little while clamped, but that’s fine.
So I started with like… Three sets of 6-minute kegeled clamps after stretching and jelqing. The result was spotting, of course. In addition to that the skin got a bit swollen, throwing off my measurements. I don’t really have warmup equipment or privacy, so that’s not an option. Then I put two and two together and decided to experiment with a single 1-2 minute clamping session twice a day, with edging right after. Sometimes I do three in a day, more often one… If I don’t clamp, at least I edge, and I’m mostly winging it. I do, however, have observations:
1) Spotting occurs even if I clamp for a single minute
2) Clamping for any amount of time only increases my MEG by 2-3 mm (before swelling)
3) Base girth may be increasing more, but it’s harder to measure (and I care less about it)
4) EQ has not improved with this girth work as it has in the past and seems to correlate more with kegels

I have paid more attention to being consistent with my kegels. I think it makes sense to try different things to optimize the actual expansion during clamping. As such, I think I’ll start my sessions with some jelqs (maybe 20?) before clamping and see if that changes anything. Alternatively I could try stretches to target length more, or fulcrum stretches for a hybrid. I’m fairly sensitive to spotting, so 20 jelqs followed by 1-2 minutes of clamping and a few minutes of edging should be a good modular attack. Then I can vary the parameters, finding a combination for good during-clamp expansion and EQ/PIs. Since it shouldn’t take too long I can probably do multiple of these blocks in a single day, should this be desirable. I can move ahead from there.
Good luck everyone.