DryJelq's Final Progress Log

[DryJelq]

First update in really long time.

I bought a cheap extender off Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078SYW6MN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I've been wearing it quite a bit and still mixing in manual exercises. Two weeks ago I started working in clamping as my dick was starting to look long and skinny.

I've been consistently measuring roughly 8.2-8.3 BPFSL and 7.7-7.8 BPEL for the past week.

The extender really seems to generate creep while preventing recovery better than manual exercises. When I started putting the two together, I really saw rapid gains. It's great because I can do a manual workout and then put the extender on and then work on the car.

Although I really like my purchase, it's not the easiest or most comfortable thing to use. I'm really wanting to get a phallosan or other vac type extender.

 

[DryJelq]

Another update after a very long time. The extender ended up giving me an injury. It pinched some skin around my nerve cord on the bottom of my penis and I had to stop PE for a few months. I've been continuing to measure around 8.3 BPFSL and 7.9 BPEL for quite a while now. The better part of a year anyway.

I've gone back to manual exercises though I haven't been working towards major gains. Just doing routine maintenance whenever life gives me the time to do so.

I've been doing a new exercise where I stretch with 2 hands. The lower hand grips the shaft while the upper hand grips behind the head. In both cases I am trapping blood (in the head and shaft) and holding a static stretch mostly upwards or outwards. Previously I had felt that there was a limit to the amount of force I could reasonably apply when gripping the head for manual stretches. It also felt like I was stretching skin when using higher forces. Being able to grab the shaft is fairly intense and requires more care, but I think it's working quite well and I can feel more of a stretch in the shaft/tunica. The only issue is that I often get hard doing this exercise.

Once I'm too hard to do the exercise, I've been doing an Uli with a stretch and holding that for 30-60 seconds. Sometimes I'll add a kegel as well to make sure the base shaft is getting expansion. The reason for the kegels is that over time I feel like the base gets fatigued/loose and I lose my EQ. In the past doing reverse jelqs w/ kegels (pushing the blood towards the base while pulling the head outward) would alleviate this problem. Similarly just doing this exercise with kegels and squeezing mid shaft seems to keep the smooth muscle tissue around the base snug against the tunica.

My new hand exercise routine seems really effective and efficient. I feel like if I had more time to focus on PE again (have 2 little kids now), I could definitely reach 8.5" to 9.0" BPEL by the end of the year. A more realistic goal for this year is to hit 8.2-8.3 BPEL.

There are a few keys to my new routine.

1.) Static stretches for at least 30 seconds in various directions starting downward and then to the sides and slowly working my way to stretching upwards. I feel like I can better target the steel cord in my tunica this way.
2.) Two handed stretches allow for more force during static stretches and a better overall stretch of the tunica. However it does seem to leave a lot more red dots and I do need to take more caution as it leaves me sore more often.
3.) Holding a stretch, Uli, and Kegel all at the same time alternating with edging seems to help convert BPFSL gains to BPEL gains.

 

[DryJelq]

Had a pretty good workout tonight with a vac stretcher. Still measuring the same 8.2-8.3 BPFSL and 7.8-7.9 BPEL, though tonight I felt I was on the higher end of those measurements and my EQ was down slightly. It took a while to edge it up to 100%, which suggests a good workout.

 

[DryJelq]

Used the Vacuum Cup to do manuals again today. Officially measured 8.437 or 8-7/16.

 

[DryJelq]

Felt like I had a really good workout today. I measured around 8-1/2 to 8-9/16 today post workout or roughly 8.5-8.6.

According to my logs that's roughly a 1/4" of gain in BPFSL in the past 3 weeks. Hopefully I can maintain this or continue gaining.

UPDATE: This morning (morning after my workout), I did an edging session and measured 8.1-8.2 BPEL! That's about 1/4" over the past 3 weeks in both BPEL and BPFSL.

 

[DryJelq]

I've been able to maintain my recent gains. Still measuring around 8.5-8.6 BPFSL. I haven't measured anything else recently.

But I realized that I've officially gained 2" in BPFSL. Hopefully I can get my BPEL to 2" in the near future.

 

[DryJelq]

One of my blood vessels felt a bit tight after my peak measurements. For a while I was stretching while pushing down on the base, but my gains stalled, so I've been taking some time off. I've also been very busy anyway. I've dipped down to 8.4 and 7.9, but I feel mostly recovered.

 

[DryJelq]

I got into pumping last spring/summer and ended up getting bleeding slightly leaving a really bad bruise on my glans that wouldn't go away and would come back really bad everytime I did any PE, so I took a very long break.

I've been doing PE for the past couple of months and I'm somewhere in the 7.9 x 5.9 range at the moment, however I've been overtraining causing my size to fluctuate a lot lately. I've been doing almost exclusively stretching, squeezes and clamping.

 

[DryJelq]

Been focusing on girth for the past month, but the past few days have been more focused on length.

Last week I was consistently seeing around 6.25 MSEG and 6.5 MSEG. Today I did some more length and edging and measured around 8.4 BPFSL, 8.0 BPEL, 6.0 MSEG, and 6.3 BSEG.

I would definitely say the length gains are temporary, but my girth gains are definitely legit as I did literally no girth today and still measured my biggest ever.

It's kinda hard to believe, but after doing this for 14 years, I've officially gone from 6.25 x 4.75 to 8.00 x 6.00. I always hoped to hit 8.0 x 6.0, but I never thought it would actually happen. I hit my first goal of 7.0 BPEL 12 years ago and I struggled for years to hit just 7.5 BPEL.

The biggest things I've done differently is using less force, but for a much longer duration. After doing research on ligaments and sports medicine I determined that 15-30 seconds was best. After building a manual workout based on longer duration stretches I blew 7.5 out of the water and hit 7.8 BPEL.

Then during the pandemic, I decided that an extender would save my hands and wrist, so I started using that to make things easier.

Then some people recently started coming out with tunica release methods based on fascia release and trigger point release techniques. I've worked these in with my manual stretches. If I do a serious workout, now I use a vacuum cup. Much easier on the wrists and I can follow up a good workout with one of those velcro stretch bands to maintain the stretch.

My girth has also focused on low force long duration as well recently along with trigger point release. My exercises have been clamping, semi-erect bends, squeezes, and pumping. These have worked extremely really well for building girth as well as length. I've gained so much girth recently using long duration stretches and trigger point release.

 

[DryJelq]

The past two months, my main routines of late have been inspired by some of Hink's youtube videos.

Shorter sessions of high pressure pumping, followed by short but intense clamping sessions and then longer lower intensity sessions of edging and combined manual squeezes with stretching.

I'm also trying to do one major workout every day with 1-2 short workouts to supplement every day as well. If I feel my tissues are getting fatigued and not recovering well, then I will take 2-3 days off. Usually it's 4-5 days on and 2-3 days off.

Post workouts have varied a lot due to varying levels of edema, but I'm consistently measuring around 6.1-6.2 MEG and 6.3-6.4 BEG after a day of rest, so overall I'd say I'm gaining rather quickly.

My girth gains have seem to come easily. I wish length gains were like that.

 

[DryJelq]

Been a couple of years since I've posted here. Haven't really done anything consistently for a while until the past week or so. Been really focused on the family and career. I definitely lost a lot of my length gains.

I got some new measuring equipment since my last post which I think is more accurate. Now I'm using a metal ruler, and tailor's tape. The square side really hurts to push down into the pubic bone, so I use the rounded side, which is exactly 1 inch past the 12 inch mark. In the past I would use a USB cable I think was skewing my measurements. Sometimes I think I would forget to subtract (PI*cord thickness) from my result.

Yesterday, I did a pumping workout for the first time in a long time and I found I was still able to pack the 2.125 tube down at the base, seemingly easier than I remember. While I did have minor edema, I decided to try pumping at low pressure with the clamp on and was able to get the 2.000 inch tube to seal, which I don't remember being able to do in the past.

But I was not able to get up to 8.0 in long (or even 7.75) in the tube like I had in the past, so I may have traded some length for girth during my time off. I did some clamping as well post workout and was up over 6.5 BEG.

Today after a very light manual only workout with no edema, I was around 6.3-6.4 BEG and 5.9-6.0 MEG with the tailor's tape.

Recently I've been done reading about new PE methods. There is apparently a lot of studies on ultrasonic and temperature based therapeutics on ligaments and connective tissues. A thread at Th***er's P**ce discussed how heating while stretching would create permanent gains a lot more easily. Definitely going to start trying to find ways to use heat again. Apparently the ideal temperature for stretching is around 102 F. While temperature can go up to 110, it can come with adverse effects if held for too long.

Also been reading about Relaxin, which is hormone that is associated with pregnancy as it weakens the ligaments and allows them to stretch more easily. Apparently the prostate also releases Relaxin, which gets released into ejaculate and pre-ejaculate. My new workout experiment is to stretch lightly while doing kegels during workouts to attempt to generate pre-cum, which will hopefully release Relaxin and assist with gains without triggering the turtling/trauma response.

Lastly, I'm quite disappointed with how PE has remained largely underground and undiscovered by mainstream society. I really thought that after doing this for most of my life it would be more widely known. I've found that a large population of the active community resides in Reddit where there is a ton of misinformation and lack of traditional searchable archives that you get from traditional forums like PEGym and Th***er's P**ce. People don't just think jelqing is unsafe, but they also think it doesn't work. I can't disagree more. So long as proper form is used in a semi-erect state, I believe some amount of jelqing is extremely important for generating flow shear in the blood vessels, which is essential for triggering blood vessel growth/development.