I finished my first month of the newbie routine - my BPEL is measuring about 1/8th more and my BPFSL went from 15.88 to 18.1 (pre workout / post warm-up measures). 2 more months of my newbie routine to go -- although you'll see my newbie routine is a little odd... I suppose it's no longer a newbie routine.
My routine started out pretty standard, I started with 5m stretching, and 10m jelqing. However, I slowly modified my workout, where it now resembles nothing like a normal newbie routine. I am however, at least focused on using very light force & keeping heat on my unit at all times.
My routine is still the newbie cadence of 2 days on, 1 day off, but my routine is:
1) 5-7m warmup (rice socks), measure BPFSL
2) 20m ADS (very light force.. I use the "total man" vacuum ADS, I keep rice socks on the whole time)
3) 14m jelq (I am slowly working towards 20m jelq. I use very light force when I jelq too. I'm very sllowly increasing it,)
(I keep a small heater pointed at my unit the whole time I jelq)
4) 10m pump (you'll see below; I'm using this to stretch skin; at first it was incidental, but now it's intentional)
5) 5-7m (warm down), measure BPFSL
I don't advise newbies to do this of course; I got phenomenal gains my first time around with the newbie routine 10 years ago (I suggest staying the course).
In my attempts to prevent / fix turkeyneck... Almost a month ago, I attempted to manually stretch my shaft & got a minor bruise and had to skip PE for a few days. I decided that's a really bad idea, and I'm now goign about this a new way. I'm going to see if pumping an fix it.
I am intentionally using the pump to grow the shaft skin on the bottom of my shaft which is a little too short (gaining 1" of shaft length it mostly seems to have stolen from my balls). Hopefully it won't cause turkeyneck, but either way, the skin is a limiting factor, so I am experimenting with fixing it this way (to hopefully prevent turkeyneck / at least not let it get worse - I have a mild case of it). THe idea is pretty simple.. intentionally put the pump over a place where my bottom shaft skin is the primary limiting factor, and pump it / cause an erection (there's a little pain honestly, but it's not injuring me)... the pain is from my natural erection + augmentation of pump pressure, pulling on the bottom side of my shaft skin, strecthing it. I've read your skin can only grow at around 1/8" per month, so I may be doing this for a long time. I'll check-in later & let people know if it's working to stretch the natural shaft skin or make turkeyneck worse.
Early on I kept measuring my "force" before as around 4% or 5%. I read that as me using too much intensity & I toned it down; I'm usually about 1% to 2.5% "force". The philosophy is minimum force for gains and I have no desire to risk injruy & be forced to take a long PE break.
I'm measuring "force" as:
(BPFSL After - BPFSL before) / BPFSL
I always measure BPFSL as centimeters to keep it exact, and I measure at the same times of the workout (start = post warm-up / after = post warm-down). I'm striving to measure exactly the same way each day -- it's been a learning process. I strive to be consistent so I can detect even a 1/20th of a centimeter gain. BPFSL fluctuates quite a bit day to day, but I wonder how much is me not measuring consistently vs other factrs. Regardless, I'm seeing consisent good growth in that measure, so I'm going to stay the course.
I've been tempted to still do PE even on rest days (e.g. pump or ads only) but have decided I'm not going to do that. Given I've had great gains (so far), I clearly don't need it at this point. In my view 1/8" in a month is fantastic & may in fact be around the maxium reasonable growth most can achieve. I plan to stick with 2 days on 1 day off for at least another 2 months. In fact, if I keep gaining, I probably won't stop taking that approach (if it's working, why not just stick with it.
