Along with sticking to the basic principles like a magnet to a refrigerator, there are several other ways you can maximize your growth. Follow the thirteen tips below to get the best out of your workouts.
1 – Finish Each Workout With a Healthy Erection
If you can’t get an erection at the end of your workout—and you typically have healthy erections—then you over-trained during that particular workout. Next time use more rest and less intensity. A penile workout should leave your penis rejuvenated, not exhausted.
2 – Add Masturbation
Many men find that adding masturbation to the mix not only helps boost their gains but also helps build stamina in the bedroom. So, if you have the time, masturbate for a few minutes before or after your routine. Especially focus on staying close to the edge of ejaculation, as your penis is biggest right before you ejaculate. “I always edge after I exercise my penis,” says one man who added nearly four inches to his penis. “I started out only being able to do it for 10 to 15 minutes, but I got better. Now I edge for 60 minutes and release my load every third workout. I do that because I feel like your penis exercising session is that much better if you don’t climax your edge.”
You also don’t want to masturbate too much. Masturbating can have a negative effect on your gains, depending on how long you do it, the amount of intensity you use, and the ability of your penis to recover. For example, if a man masturbates for several hours (this happens), it can be as much or more stress to his penis as an actual penis exercises workout. The only way you can tell if masturbating is beneficial or harmful to your gains is to pay close attention to your body clues afterward.
Also, whether you ejaculate or not is up to you. A lot of penis exercisers believe that not ejaculating two hours before or after a workout maximizes gains. The argument for this belief is that you want your penis to be relaxed, full of blood, and larger than normal after a penis exercises workout. And you’ve probably noticed that the penis often contracts, shrinks, and reduces in blood flow after ejaculation. Nevertheless, several men have gained inches regardless of when they ejaculated. In the end, if you want to ejaculate, go for it. If after a while you feel that ejaculating is hurting your gains, try holding off ejaculating for two hours before and after your routine to see if it helps.
3 – Practice Proper Technique
The chief reason some men can’t gain is improper technique. Bad technique includes jerking stretches and using an improper grip while jelqing. Penis exercises are easy to do, yet they may take a few attempts to master. To make sure you have the technique down, use the pictures and descriptions of the exercises the first few times you do them. Also, for a better understanding, watch the “how-to” videos of the exercises at http://www.PEGym.com.
4 – Pain = No Gain
One major difference between exercising the muscles and exercising the penis is the popular gym motto: No Pain = No Gain. Several people feel that if you don’t feel pain while working out, you’re not going to gain. This is often untrue, and it’s even more untrue when performing penis exercises.
Penis exercising with the pain-is-good mentality will cause nothing but harm. In fact, if you ever think you’re going at it too intensely, then you probably are. Listen to your body, it rarely steers you wrong. When exercising the penis I want you to adapt a new motto: Pain = No Gain! If you feel pain or a lack of sensation, stop immediately.
5 – Remember Your Kegels
A big pitfall for beginners is forgetting—or purposely avoiding—the kegel. Men are especially prone to skipping the kegel during the first few weeks, when it’s easy to get wrapped up in the other fundamental exercises.
Kegels are an important part of any penis exercises routine. They are indispensable for hardness and your overall penis health, and they can also help with penis enlargement growth by increasing blood flow. Moreover, kegels are an easy and mindless task, so why skip them. Always do the kegel start/stop. It’s a simple exercise that requires a few extra seconds of doing something you will already be doing—urinating.
6 – Always Warm up
A warm up is essential to healthy penis exercises. I’ve found that many times when a man isn’t gaining, he is either warming up improperly or not warming up at all. Take the case of a penis exerciser who uses the online alias Shiver. Like many other penis exercisers, he never did a warm up because “it didn’t seem to be the ‘meat’ of the program.” Shiver had been performing penis exercises for several years (on and off) with only a small gain to show for it, so he decided to investigate what was going wrong. After some research, he learned the importance of heat when stretching tissue. Within two weeks of applying a warm up, Shiver gained nearly a half an inch in length, which is more than he had gained in all his previous years of performing penis exercises.
A warm up should make your penis more elastic than normal. If this isn’t happening, you aren’t acquiring sufficient heat. In which case, try switching your warm up method, or warm up for longer periods of time.
7 – Cool Down After Each Workout
For one reason or another, some men “warm up” after a workout in hopes they’ll increase the benefits that heat provides. This isn’t recommended. A chief reason the warm up is so important is that it increases the elasticity of your penis. Increased elasticity, however, is not what you want at the end of your workout. Post workout, the goal is to keep your penis in an enlarged and stretched state. Applying heat to your penis counteracts this goal.
Instead of applying heat to your penis after a workout, try applying cold. Many men find that it helps boost gains and keep the penis in a stretched state. For a cool down, apply cold to your penis using a cold wash cloth, a cold pack that has been sitting in the fridge (not the freezer), or some cold water. Keep the cool down applied for one to two minutes. Just make sure it’s not too cold, or your penis is liable to contract and shrink up.
8 – Do JAI Stretches
The JAI stretch may look minor and ineffective, but it’s far from it. Time after time, men have told me that they didn’t start gaining until they added JAI stretches into the mix. Many men find that doing twenty or more JAI stretches before and after their routine helps, along with doing ten or so every time they use the restroom.
9 – Learn From Your Mistakes
If you know that a certain exercise or routine isn’t working, then try something different. At first, knowing what works and what doesn’t will seem like guesswork. But as time goes on, you will become completely in sync with your penis. As one penis exerciser who uses the online alias Peter Dick says, “It’s possible for almost anyone to gain . . . providing they perform penis exercises the right way.” Peter Dick never hit a plateau—in which growth comes to a halt—and gained nearly two and half inches. How did he do it? He says, “I’m very in tune with my dick, and I know what works for me.”
10 – Don’t Beat Yourself Up If You Don’t Gain Right Away
Getting into the groove takes time, and impatience is the downfall for many men. Some men go several months—and sometimes much longer—without gaining. And then, through trial and error, they suddenly start gaining.
Enlarging your penis isn’t an instantaneous process. As Tom Hubbard, a man who helped lay the foundation of the modern penis exercises community, says, “Rome wasn’t built in a day. Neither is a new penis.” Change for the better takes time. Be consistent, keep at it, and the gains will come.
11 – Don’t Move Up Too Fast
I know, I know, you get it—but this point cannot be stressed enough. It’s ironic: there’s a fine line between over-training (using too much intensity) and under-training (not using enough intensity). Between that line is where you want to be: gaining. Although both under-training and over-training can stop you from gaining, it’s much better to be under-training
The worst thing you can do is start out using too much intensity, as over-training can be discouraging. The main indication of over-training is weaker erections. And if your penis has a weak erection at the wrong time—say when your partner is ready to put in the Marvin Gaye CD and “get it on”—then you’re liable to swear off penis exercises for good.
Even worse, several men notice that when they continually over-train by moving up too fast, it makes it even harder for them to gain in the future. That’s because the penis adapts and gets tougher each time you over-train So moving up too fast is a double-edge sword: Not only does it stop you from gaining now, but also in the future. The best way to avoid this problem is to start out light—perhaps even under-train at first—and increase the intensity as necessary.
If you’re ever in doubt about when to up the intensity, then don’t do it. After the doubt subsides, move forward with caution. Don’t let your wants replace your needs. Your penis needs adequate rest and proper conditioning.
The Other Side of the Story: Not Increasing the Intensity
Although I recommend in this book that you should continue to gradually increase the intensity overtime (as long as you have healthy body clues!), some men find that it’s safer to not increase the intensity until gains have come to a complete halt. Following this method, you would stick with a fairly similar routine until you have gained all you can using that routine, and then increase the intensity until you start gaining again. The best part about this method is that it’s a lot easier to avoid going overboard this way.
12 – Track Your Progress in a Journal
Along with providing continual motivation, a progress journal will allow you to record your workouts and your gains. By tracking your results and what you did to obtain those results, you will know exactly how your penis responds to certain exercises and routines.
Every now and then, you can review your progress journal and see if you can find a pattern. For example, you might notice that you experience your best gains when you give your penis two days of rest between workouts. You don’t have to track your progress each workout, but I suggest that you do it roughly every week or so. The more often you track your results, the more accurate your progress journal will be.
In Appendix D, I have provided a progress journal sheet for you. You can either make photocopies of the page, or you can find the same page on the companion website to this book, http://www.PEGym.com/progress and print it from there. Make several copies and put them into a penis exercises binder.
If you don’t want to keep a progress journal on paper, you can take the next step and track your results online. In fact, if you’re able, I recommend that you track your progress on Internet support forums, as others can critique your routines, methods, and other variables that you haven’t considered. You can start a progress journal in the community forums at one of the recommended websites in Appendix D. At http://www.PEGym.com¸ you can also find several tools that make it easy to record your progress online and get feedback in the progress blogs section.
In your progress journal, list the exercises used, the degree of intensity applied, and the amount of time spent performing penis exercises on each exercise. For even better accuracy, also list your warm-up method, the amount of time you spent warming up, and any additional notes that you find beneficial. Some men, for example, also list the supplements, vitamins, and medications they took that week to help determine everything that might affect growth. The more information you provide, the greater chance you’ll repeat good results.
13 – Try Different Variations
Different alterations of exercises and routines work for different men. For example, as a general rule, jelqing with a lower erection level builds length and a higher erection level builds girth. But a few men have reported that jelqing with a higher erection level helped them build length, and others reported that jelqing with a lower erection level helped them build girth. So, although I can lay the groundwork for you by giving you the general rules, only you will be able to find out what works best for you. You can do this by keeping it varied, trying new things, and tracking your results as you progress.