So is 5Hg the maximum I need to go to? I see some people are going up to 10Hg?
5inHg is the initial point for growth. It's considered as a lowest boundary pressure to force the penis to grow. Slowly, you have to go up, and up, and up, and up. 10inHg is considered as a max safe limit as your penis adapts over time. Don't be too eager to pump harder and get higher in pressure. Only go up in pressure once you can feel your penis is not responding to pressure at 5inHg. Creep up slowly and take advantage of the lower pressure expansion. For brothers with dense tissues that work against the pressure at 10inHg, they wil have to push hard to go beyond it.
By the way, there is a big different between air and water pressure. So, make sure to approach things differently. Air vacuum is more different in terms of variability than water. What you feel at 5inHg in water is completely different than air.
what was the second approach?
Air vs water? Which approach you're planning to use predominantly? On top of that, what's your side objectives? An example of objectives: ED resolution, good expansion but not worry about girth, focus on length over girth in pumping while girth is still desireable in the process, pump more than SSJ routine but don't like to have ademas, and so on and so forth.
I am going into the tube erect already. Also, i see people saying "you need to stay erect in the tube" I am always full size under pressure and assume everyone else would be... or are they meaning it needs to remain a natural erection, not just one created by the vaccum? Once i come out of the tube then I am my erect size, but not fully erect.
Yes, remain naturally erected in the tube as possible. Under vacuum pressure, your tissues expand. Natural erection forces more blood into the expanded area, causing the expansion to get bigger internally. What we want is internal expansion. External expansion is ademas or fluid retention. Not good to have. When you come out of the tube, you don't have to be erected. Take that time to relax before SSJ or the next pumping session.
Im sure I read in several places that DLD was saying you cannot increase glans size, is this no longer believed to be true? (I love the proportions of my dick already, so if I could grow everything relatively equally that would be amazing!)
Glans can be influenced for growth, depending on how you work your routines. My glans remain larger than the rest of my shaft, and as you haven't noticed, as your penis increases in girth so does your glans. Urologists said it's impossible to increase your glans. Well, that myth got busted since 2009.
Even while I am in the early days and potentially still conditioning? It does feel like it is potentially thicker after. I found it hard to confirm my initial erect girth as I had already started doing light manual expansion and on a good day it was a bit thicker than others.
No matter where you are in the process, you are conditioning your penis for the next phase. Starting out, you're condition your penis for growth. During growth, you're conditioning for bigger growth. During major growth phase, you're conditioning for cementing and plateau phases. It's constantly a major cycling of going one step further.
Would I need to measure right after my workouts to confirm this? It's always difficult to maintain full erection while measuring, and I guess 5% is not a massive increase!
Sorry to say, but 5% is good increase. 1% is a still a good increase. 10% is a phenomenal increase. 25% is a master of all increase. Think about how much work your body is putting into the efforts of just increasing its size beyond the genetic constraints.
I'm definitely not seeing 10%, I'm pretty sure of that. Also, when I upped my Slow Squash Jelq intensity, this is where I saw potential edema, and also there is a vein that looked like it was ballooning below the glans, but before the foreskin starts. Should I be concerned about that?
SSJ intensity and pumping higher vacuum pressure will force all components to grow, be the blood vessels, the foreskin, the nerves, or the blood volume. What you see bulging is the blood vessels working their hardest to support blood flow. As long as you don't see a small little bulge like a baloon along the vein, you're fine. If you have a nice segment of large blood vessel more than 2 inches long, your blood vessel is expanding to accomodate the specific blood delivery pathway for that area. If you're uncertain of vessel expansion versus thrombosis, take a snapshot.
Yes, i am using the base hand to anchor... but i find it difficult to get right at the very base. Just to check, i am using a grip where my palm is facing down towards the pubic bone. I tried the opposite way, overhand, but then its difficult to do the jelqs.
Find your best and comfortable positioning of the hands for the routine. There is no wrong and right way. It's about effective and efficient compression of blood in between the penile shaft.
I am doing more of a compression, pushing the two points i am holding closer together, as opposed to actually sliding the hand down like the traditional upward jelqs, is that correct?
Yes, that's the squash part. The sliding is simply a compression jelq, going from the base toward the glans.
So, intially when i do this, my penis is erect size but soft, but after a minute, already it has reduced to more normal flaccid length, but definitely with more blood in there. Is this enough to be filling the gaps as you suggest?
Gaps must constantly be pried wide open. When you stop your jelqing, or allow the penis to drop to shriveled flaccid state, the gaps are reduced. This is why we wear a restrictive device to force the gaps to remain open for the cells to repair and duplicate to fill in the gaps.
OK.. I would like to start getting a length routine going, even if manually... I guess I could use the sleeves rather than the stretcher to begin with whilst learning the pumping.
Lots of comments I've seen say to work on length first then girth. Obviously I've done this the other way round. Any benefits to doing one versus the other? When pumping in the MityVac, I seem to go past the 7-inch mark which is above my BPEL, but not sure how accurate the markings are.
Length gains is much much harder and longer to achieve than girth gains. Girthwise, you're expanding laterally with less components to expand and regrow. Length wise, you're forcing your penis to under go growth longitudinally. Lots of components in your penis need to growth along with the penis. So, if you're fine with your girth for the time being, put all efforts into length. If length is fine, focus all on girth. This is more of a personal preference than requirements.
I will say it again, as I know you have spent a lot of time replying to me, but thank you... I appreciate the effort you are putting in to.help me understand!
Always ask. What you ask may not apply to everyone, but it helps to answer lingering questions that the other brothers may not pull the trigger to ask.
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