Hi guys, I've been pumping on and off for years but now ready to take things more serious and cement some gains. However, I'm new to the SSJ in the 5x5x3 regimen. I'm wondering in I'm doing it too hard because I get some blood blisters at my base where I grip. Any ideas? And how long should I back off until I continue again? Also, Is the 5x5x3 enough for anybody, or should I add more things to it? I'm mostly going for girth right now.
Welcome to the brotherhood brother.
Sounds like you're employing too much friction where you grab. We tend to twist side to side, causing friction zone. Too much friction can cause blistering. Add a bit of lubrication, like lotion, gel, or even Vasoline.
Blood blister at the base of the penis or at the base of the glans? SSJ holds at two points, which are the base of the penis and the base of the coronal ridge (your glans).
Sounds like you're employing too much friction where you grab. We tend to twist side to side, causing friction zone. Too much friction can cause blistering. Add a bit of lubrication, like lotion, gel, or even Vasoline.
When you have a blister of any kind, it will take a week or two for the body to reabsorb the blister and build new under laying skin, and then naturally peel off the upper layer. This is where you go slow and gentle as the new layer of skin is still tender and weak. Too much force too fast will create another blister.
5x5x3 is good, but additional routines is better. 5x5x3 is for girth, but adding a bit of lengthening routine to maximize the tissue breakdown will increase the girth even more.
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Thanks guys. So how much pressure do you use? Maybe I should use a cock ring or some sort of tie instead. Looking forward to starting this. I think I'll be adding the length master to the routine.
Another question. I read that you all use hydrocortisone. Is that for blisters or something else?
Another question. I read that you all use hydrocortisone. Is that for blisters or something else?
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How much pressure to use? An age old question. If you have a good pump, such as the MityVac, the gauge should be monitored very closely. Our penis internal pressure is around 3.5inHg to 4.5inHg. A good start out is at normal internal pressure for a week. When you use the 5x5x3 or any of its modified routine, you should not have any sharp or tingling pain. It should be a dull achiness. It should feel expanded and visually increased at 10%. At minimum, around 5%. Can you measure it? Sure you. But your eyes and brain can distinguish it.
Over the course of every 2 to 3 weeks, increase your pressure slowly. It can be 0.5inHg at a time, and if your penis can feel the needs for the rise in pressure, increase by a full 1inHg. Stay it with for another 3 to 5 weeks. Why so low? This is to prevent the penis from a sudden trauma and cause it to fight back. Penis will response to any heavy trauma by shrinking and hiding inside its body to conserve and preserve itself. Those who likes to put on a brand new pump and has the pressure goes straight to 7inHg or 10inHg as a preset setting, you just flag your penis to its doom.
You will slowly increase your pressure towards the upper pressures. The max upper safety pressure is 10inHg. A good range is between 7 to 10inHg. But this will take you months down the road. Don't just jump from 3.5in or 4.5inHg to 10inHg within the first few months. This is penile suicide.
Use a dedicated cock ring, such as the SiliRings or DuroRings. They are composed of hygienic silicone, while soft enough to expand in case of an emergency, but at the same time, hard enough to sustain compression pressure to hold the blood in side penis during pumping and during resting stages (the post-pumping) to keep your penis plump. Blood kept inside the penis helps to restore the penis faster. But if your blood doesn't cycle out, meaning if your blood starts to change color, you need to help it along. Your penile color should be a nice healthy pinkish color all the time. This is a good blood cycling in and out of your penis. Anyt time you see a purple-ish color, your oxygen level is spent. Squeeze the blood out of your penis, get a light erection, and get more blood in. You can tell if you need new blood within 5 to 10 minutes. You might want to consider getting slightly large penis or cock rings.
Hydrocortisone is to suppress irritation for post workout. An example is the Length Master. We place quite a bit of pressure on the glans. The glans can only handle so much. During the strong tugging and pulling with all those wraps, you create micro fissures and abrasions. The hydrocortisone helps to protect and heal the skin faster over the natural course of no application of ointment. You can use oil such as Vit E, castor oil, virgin filtered coconut oil, virgin olive oil, and many more that help. Find one that best fits your needs.
As for blisters, there's no way around it beside letting them heal naturally with some application of ointments. Hydrocortisone is good. Natural oil is fine as well. But blisters will take between a week to 3 weeks to heal. The inner layer will form in about 3 to 5 days, and the outer layers will pop or shed off. It will take another 2 to 3 weeks for the skin to strengthen up again. This is why we need to go easy and allow the penis to adapt. Too fast and too hard, you set yourself back from doing PE effectively.
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Thanks @oldandlively . As for pressure, I meant for the jelq. I don't have a gauge on my hand and I imagine it's hard to describe. Is is just a light squeeze? Just wondering how you know it's too hard.
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(cwl) You actually do have a gauge on your hand for jelqing. The gauge is built into your penis. Here's how:
When you squeeze, your glans expands. Look at the expansion on your glans very closely. When you have weak glans tissues, you'll see white patches, and at times, different color like darker shades of pink or bluish to dark purple, rather than nice uniform color throughout your glans. This are hotspots. Hotspots are known for causing sudden blistering. The reason why the color changes on the skin is the soft tissues, or scarring tissues, the glans is attempting to rejuvinate and reinforced. The patches need more oxygen in the blood than usual, and the blood tends to be closer to these newer spots, staying far away from the lower tissues like the rest of the glans. The closer the blood is to the natural air, the fast the oxygen being consumed or oxidized. Because of this, color changes occur.
So, how hard to squeeze? Based on the gauge of your glans. If you have a nice uniform color all over your glans, you can increase SLOWLY upwards to a more moderate level. If you have a nice dark pink color all over your glans, you are now reaching 6inHg. Why? You're pushing larger blood volume that pressurized against the upper layers of the fascias (your upper tissues layers).
If you can still feel comfortable without any pain, and no issue with hotspots that can cause blister, increase the intensity slightly more aggressive while fully erected. You are now entering between 8inHg to 9inHg, close to the upper bound of safe internal pressure. You'll be surprised how faster your blood color is changing while at this pressure.
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