Originally Posted by Jarbody
So for a stretch only newbie would you say 5 minutes of stretches a day in every direction is sufficient as of now? What are your tips on increasing my work out? I do include maybe 30 jelqs but I wanna do a stretch heavy routine, I just really want to get to 6.5 inches and maybe 7 if I’m gaining properly. In your experience do you think .5 - 1 in gains are obtainable in 5 months?
From what I’ve been seeing in past months my current gain rate is about 0.5” per 3 months. But I can’t yet say if it will stay like that for me, or whether it will be the same for you. Folks here keep stressing that not everyone gains at a similar rate, or even at the same rate all the time.
As for jelqing, I’ve not been doing any of it since January. If you want to focus on length only, and your EQ remains good, I don’t see anything wrong with doing only stretches. I’d say give it a try, monitor how your dick responds etc., and then go from there. Also ask the veterans on here for input, I’m just a newbie myself. All I can draw from are my own results. And they tell me “lightly, softly”.
I’ve not been increasing intensity at all. I don’t see myself doing that either, unless I fail to see the usual 1mm weekly gain for several consecutive weeks.
As for stretches in every direction, I actually don’t even do that. I just grip ~1 inch below the glans with an overhand grip, pulling up, and put the crook of the thumb of the other hand at the base pushing down, so I only stretch the external shaft, not the internals inside my body. I do it that way because the normal stretches didn’t give me a decent enough stretch without me having to grip too hard. A simple fulcrum stretch, or V stretch, works much better for me.
I don’t even pull very hard, just enough to get a good stretch. I hold that stretch for ~60 seconds, once or maybe twice, call it quits, and then I’ll have a go at it again a few hours later. Totalling about 4-6 minutes a day, sometimes more, sometimes less. I don’t take rest days.
If you’re interested in following that routine as well I’d be very interested in how you get on. Just keep measuring flaccid stretch length as the main control metric, it should increase about 1mm a week. Erect length should start increasing after 2 months or so as well, possibly earlier for you, seeing how your girth is slightly less (I reckon the delay is a total volume related thing).
Edited to add: if you do measure 1mm more every week, do not be tempted to ramp up the intensity to gain even faster. 1mm a week means 2 inches a year, which is pretty damned rapid already. Only ramp it up (or completely re-evaluate) if and when you stop gaining.
The idea behind this routine is taken from physiotherapy, btw. Where you do a few simple stretches every day, for example, to increase range of motion of a stiff joint after an injury, which works pretty quickly. Except here you only increase, err, range. :D