I’ve gotten requests to share the initial test results in more detail.
I’m trying to be a bit cautious initially on publishing results in the public forum because I am coming off a protracted rest period of around 2 years. Prior to that, I had already done some manual routines as well as ADS (Phallosan) routine. I should point out that I’m somewhat different from many here. This is just a scientific exercise for me. I found my way into PE as a sexual health tool after reading an article that indicated a huge proportion of men experience sexual disfunction after 40 years old and the stats on lost penile volume were staggering. I can go into more detail on that in a different post if anyone is interested. Nutshell… my research indicated that both the sexual disfunction and size loss related to aging could easily be prevented. Critically, I’m not huge but somewhat above average size and not looking to inflict pain on my wife purely for my own ego. Consequently, the previous manuals were intended to prevent age-related volume loss and maintain EQ which, admittedly, I’ve never had a problem with. One annoying thing for me has always been that I’m a grower and my pelvic floor muscles are evidently highly sensitive to adrenaline so I do turtle significantly during workouts. I’m circumcised and I literally turtle to the point of the shaft skin enveloping the glans as if I’m temporarily uncut. Not that I care whether anyone is cut or not, but rather that it creates an uncomfortable feeling when you are not used to it. Much like when your scrotum sticks to your legs. I experimented with the Phallosan to see if it could rectify the turtleing. For those curious, it did at least temporarily help with that, although even with something that stealthy, it is not convenient and I’ve since determined that it is highly counterproductive to anyone seeking increased size. But it works ok to train the pelvic floor muscles and ligs not to contract all the time.
Given my satisfactory size, and the inconvenience and inefficiency of traditional PE, I lost interest after about 6 months. Ultimately, I would research into a much more efficient and effective way to accomplish the desired effects that exited the ‘bro science’ realm and aligned with real science. The theories on this thread kept surfacing in alignment with my theories. Since I have no choice but to test theory on myself, I felt that the very long rest was absolutely critical in allowing all the previously altered tissue to return closer to baseline. That is, I needed to ensure that virtually all existing collagen had turned over. It has now been 2 years since I last performed any type of PE which should ensure all structures are fresh unstressed cells.
It is important to note that I had lost about 2/3 of the newbie gains from my first foray into PE, which I had already attributed mostly to lig stretch. I have now performed a single workout with the previously posted device. PLEASE TAKE THE FOLLOWING WITH A HUGE GRAIN OF SALT DUE TO PROBABLE RECOVERY OF PREVIOUS NEWBIE GAINS.
I would note that the US heat had an absolutely enormous effect on my measurements during this single workout. My BPFSL increased 15mm from the pre-workout baseline. The BPEL increased 14mm. Obviously, these ‘gains’ come with a huge caveat. Nearly 1/2 of it is likely a recovery of what was previously lost and likely has more to do with re-stretching ligs and loosening pelvic floor muscle fibers that had since contracted and become newly disorganized and tightly crimped.
Nonetheless, we can still safely assume that this rate of recovery wouldn’t have happened without the US heat. During the conditioning set to start the workout, I did make a short attempt at measuring the load strain curve before any type of heat or workout. There is simply no possible way that the strain levels I achieved would’ve been possible without the heat. After a brief 5 min conditioning stretch at 1kg load, I slowly increased to 2.5kg which started to get uncomfortable in a cold state. I was only able to get about 4mm of additional strain between 1-2.5kg. Even with 5 min of stress relaxation, the load only dropped to about 2.1kg. A couple years ago I had performed a few different experiments both cold as well as with rice sock heat. Even with near 4kg of load I was never able to get more than about 4mm temporary strain from baseline BPFSL. I have a significant steel cord that just hasn’t yielded at all over short timeframes. Even creep over hours in the Phallosan @ 2.5-3.5kg load didn’t yield more than 4mm and once resulted in blisters.
After preliminary testing the load-strain curve I manually tested the BPFSL again utilizing the Phallosan vacuum cup to ensure that I hadn’t altered the baseline state and it had only slightly increased from baseline about 1mm. I then did 3 heated sets.
SET 1……………..
Creep protocol with FIR lamp/pad heat for 20min @ 0.8kg load constant which achieved a 3mm strain from the baseline cold BPFSL. This adjusted the new baseline and eliminated the questions surrounding cold or contracted tissues. Everything from this point was warmed and loosened. You might say that from this point the penis is fully conditioned for a workout, but additional time under this load wouldn’t result in additional strain. Basically the internal tissues cannot stretch further without more heat and/or higher load. And for those curious, both of my heat sources for Set 1 are far-infrared and thus have a greater penetrating depth. One is an FIR heat lamp from above while the other is an FIR heat pad from below. The region gets very warm but the ligs and TA cannot get above 39C without skin burns. Also, for those not aware, prolonged exposure to high temps is harmful to skin even if those temps do not cause short term burns.
SET 2………..
The 2nd set used both FIR lamp above, FIR heat pad below, and US in a stress relaxation protocol. Using a 2cm US standoff gel pad with 9cm diameter, the core tissues are heated nicely just to the point of discomfort. It is actually quite painful to reach temps >43C, as proteins begin to denature, so that is a good indication that you’re going too far, but typically below 39C there is no discomfort but also no big effect to the collagen. So, you want to get just up to the point of discomfort and hold it. 5 minutes with all heat sources to get the core tissue temps up @ 1kg load initial with fixed strain. Once heated, strain increased 0.5% per minute from new baseline until load reaches 1.5kg. No strain discomfort at all despite the strain increasing another 5.5mm beyond the previous 3mm. Once target load reached, stress relax until load dropped to 0.8kg which took about 4 min with constant heat. After this, heat sources all removed for 5 min ambient cooldown still @ fixed strain. Then strain removed completely for 5 min.
SET 3……………………………
3rd set repeat of 2nd except that target load increased to 2kg. Another 7.5mm BPFSL achieved during this set beyond that achieved in the 2nd set. And notably, the previous max strain level was achieved during the heat up phase @ just 1kg load. This demonstrates that cyclic strain achieves higher strain levels at lower loads with each successive set. The cooldown for this set got a bit uncomfortable as the tissue cooled and load naturally increased to 2.2kg which evidentally is far less comfortable than the same load with warm tissues. Not necessarily because of the load, but rather because of the load while tissues are in a fixed strain well beyond their previous natural cold state.
At this point I was apprehensive about doing another set. I’m certain that more load and/or additional cycles would’ve achieved incrementally greater strain, but the heat was getting uncomfortable because as we know, 41-42C is not a comfortable temp for soft tissue over prolonged exposure. Also, I will not be experimenting with loads above 2.5kg until far down the road. The whole point of my protocol is to show whether it is most optimal long-term to keep loads as low as possible and instead use targeted heat, cyclic strain, and rest periods to achieve optimal efficiency.
The penis was allowed to completely cool for another 20 min and new measurements were taken matching the max length within the device. That is, the new cold rested BPFSL was identical to the peak heated strain inside the device. A new BPEL was taken and I was quite surprised that the new measurement was 14mm higher than the one from an hour earlier. I will likely be pursuing a mon & thurs workout schedule for a few weeks before taking a prolonged rest. We’ll see where I get over the next 21 days.