“Baby steps. One day at a time. One tiny step at a time.”
- Dr. Leo Marvin in What About Bob?
Let’s pretend—for a moment—that you’re exercising your biceps. You start out with your max: twelve reps of twenty pounds. As the weeks go on, you become stronger and your max increases. You can technically do twelve reps of thirty pounds, but you don’t increase the weight at all. For one reason or another, you stay at twenty pounds, twelve reps.
As a result, you aren’t pushing yourself to the max, and your biceps don’t enlarge as much as they possibly can. And if you stay at twenty pounds long enough, your biceps will stop growing altogether.
That’s because, as Dr. Dan Curtis, M.D., reported, “The amount of stress on the muscle has to be greater than what the muscle typically is subjected to. If you do an activity every day that involves a movement and a weight that does not change, then there is no stimulus for the muscle to grow. But if you increase the amount of stress on the muscle, then there is a stimulus for the muscle to grow.”1
Although your penis isn’t skeletal muscle, it essentially works the same way. It adapts quickly. For growth to occur, your penis needs to be continually challenged with a stimulus that is beyond what it’s accustomed to. To do this, you’ll have to slowly increase the intensity as time goes on.
In the beginning, you will increase the intensity in one way: by increasing the amount of time spent performing penis exercises. As you progress, you will also increase the intensity in two other ways: by adding advanced exercises and by increasing the intensity of the exercises you are already using, which you’ll learn more about in Part V.
A Common Pitfall: Moving Up Too Fast
Although increasing the intensity is essential to continuous growth, increasing the intensity too quickly is the most common downfall for beginners. Many penis exercisers are eager to gain; and as result, they let their ambitions make the decisions. Whatever you do, don’t let this happen to you.
Increase the intensity, but do it little by little. The goal is to start out light and condition your penis while you gradually progress. Rushing into high intensity often leads to burning out, to hitting a plateau (where growth stops), or to over-training—all of which can stop growth from occurring.
Never start out with the advanced exercises or attempt to skip steps. Doing so is potentially dangerous. Without proper conditioning, jumping ahead is like having a maximum bench press of 150 pounds and trying to lift 400 pounds.
If you only remember one thing from this chapter, let it be in the beginning, less is more. Penis exercising isn’t a competition. It’s a union between you and your penis.