rbi, i have some questions for you about the UJ's and UV's, and i would be very grateful if you had some time to answer them for me. i'm extremely intrigued by these exercises, and i have actually started doing them within the past week. i didnt make a pegym account until today, so i was just going by what you had previously posted and what i could read. first question: do you count a full rep as one stroke with both hands (like jonpop does in his jp90) or do u count 1 full rep as just one stroke with each hand? if u get what im asking... i think i may have a bad habit with overworking my unit, especially with jelqing.. i often end up with fluid buildup under my glans (donut effect). i noticed you said that you use a very firm grip while doing these exercises. I find that the firmer grip i use, the more donut effect i see after each jelq set. i don't have an issue with going to hard on the UV's though, man can i feel them work. with every rep i do i see veins in the top of my unit throbbing and getting fuller than ever before. my glans gets solid too, and i have found that it is useful for me to use my hand that is pinching my 2 fingers together as a support for the bottom of my unit during each jelq. basically, there's the obvious pressure being applied from the 2 sides (my fingers) and then pressure from the top (the webbing between my fingers) and then theres added pressure from the botton (the part of my hand between my thumb and index finger on my hand i'm using to pinch the other hand's fingers together). I press this area up against the bottom of my shaft as hard as i can while doing the UV, and i find it very effective. it also eliminates the problem that many people have with their unit twisting during UVs. How many UV's is too much? when i see my veins throbbing and feel my unit swelling and looking visibly bigger, i just want to keep going. with the UJ's, a lot of time i don't feel like its as effective as the UV. I get the beforementioned donut effect afterwards, and i have trouble trapping the blood in my shaft and out of the glans while i wrap my other hand's fingers around the base of my unit to start another stroke. every time i do a UJ, my glans is ROCK SOLID. i know this is probably a good thing, but i dont want just my glans to grow, i want my while unit to grow and expand as much as i can. I was thinking about just doing UV's from now on since i feel them to be the most effective, but i have read elsewhere that jelqs are necessary too. I really am striving for girth over everything.. I'm at 5.25 inches and i so badly want to be in the 6-6.25 range. I wouldn't mind some extra length too, but if i had to focus on one goal it would be girth. alot of times during my UJ's i'll go to apply my overhead ok grip to the base of my unit, and ill squeeze and i wont feel my unit expand further, because it feels hard and totally full of blood already... i dont know if this is normal or if this even makes sense to read (it makes sense in my head obviously).. but anyways enough out of me. thanks for taking the time to read this if you have, and any input you give me will be greatly appreciated.