Warm Down vs. Cool Down? Your opinion and results?

What are your opinions on warming down or cooling down? Which do you like better? Which has given you better results? I have recently been cooling down with a cloth just enough for my erection to go down a little bit, but not enough for my penis to start turtling. What do you think?

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Originally Posted by firegoat

After a ‘normal’ PE session, I allow my penis to cool to body temperature under light stretch.

If I have had a very intense session, or there is any active inflammation, I allow it to cool naturally to body temperature, then ice it.

Bear in mind also that the penis takes very little time to cool all the way through.

Here are a few guidelines on the use of ice that I wrote for my patients. Obviously they are written to apply to musculoskeletal conditions, so use your common sense to extract what is useful to apply to the penis. If you are going to try ice, please read them carefully:

Use of Ice

ICE is simple, safe and very effective for many injuries and painful musculoskeletal conditions.

Ice in any form may be used - gel packs, water with ice in it, bags of frozen peas, crushed ice in a polythene bag - whatever is most convenient. Please don’t use ice direct on skin, it can cause nasty ‘cold burns’ or can stick, which is very unpleasant! Whatever you use wrap it in a dry or damp tea towel or similar. (Dry is essential in cold weather if outside).

Ice has a two-fold effect. Initially it decreases tissue temperature and causes local blood vessels to constrict. As the body tries to re-establish homeostasis, its effect changes to increase tissue temperature and dilate the blood vessels in deep tissue. These responses alternate.

• Cold applied locally to the site of the injury will:
• Chill pain receptors, decreasing pain
• Constrict local blood vessels, slowing blood circulation, stopping bleeding and reducing inflammation
• Dilate deep blood vessels, bringing nutrients to the area and speeding removal of debris from inflammation
• Reduce muscle spasm
• Decrease tissue damage

Healing time is directly proportional to the amount of swelling, so it is vital to control swelling as soon as possible after an injury, and not allow further damage to surrounding tissue.

How long to ice an area for depends on the area - icing an area for too long can cause cold damage. A finger for example will take much less icing (e.g. 5 mins.) than a thigh, and a superficial injury will take less than a deep injury. Generally no body part should ever be iced for more than 20-25 mins . If icing a wrist or ankle in water with ice in it, keep fingers/toes out of the water. Use your common sense.


When using ice you will feel the following stages:

Cold

Burn

Ache

Numbness

When you feel numbness has been achieved, stop icing. The treatment can be repeated when the part has warmed up again. Cold therapy may be continued for 24 to 48 hours following the injury. Two to three times a day is usual, although with a more severe injury this may be increased.


Ice therapy is generally very safe when used within the time recommendations above. However, it is NOT recommended if you have:

• Allergy to cold
• Collagen disease
• Circulatory problems
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Cardiac problems
• Reynaud’s disease

Additionally, ice should not be used over a superficial nerve or areas of impaired sensation or paralysis. If in doubt always consult your doctor before using cold therapy.

A word about the ever popular cold sprays. Although they have their place, I would not recommend them. They are difficult to use effectively. If used insufficiently they do the opposite of what is intended - they chill the surface, but no lower, which causes a reflex reaction by the body of increasing blood flow to warm the area. If used enough to cool deep tissue, they are liable to cause freeze burns to the skin.

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Originally Posted by firegoat

Ice is very beneficial if any trauma (however mild) has been caused to the tissues, so I use ice after a session where I have considerably overdone it. Otherwise I just let things cool on their own while maintaining stretch.
Ice will cool the tissues - because the body wants its tissues to be at body temperature it will flush the tissues with lots of fresh blood to warm the tissues, once you take the ice pack off. In the process, metabolic and inflammatory by-products are flushed out of the tissues and lots of fresh, oxygenated, nutrient laden blood enters the tissues.

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I personally prefer a cool down it keeps my penis engorged longer, were if I use a warm down my penis is in its smallest flaccid state.

5 minute warm down! Have never experienced with cool downs. Although with my warm downs I do tend to turtle for an hour or two. Not really sure if it's due to warming down, though. Could be from working out my peen.

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Originally Posted by Jay1983

5 minute warm down! Have never experienced with cool downs. Although with my warm downs I do tend to turtle for an hour or two. Not really sure if it's due to warming down, though. Could be from working out my peen.

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Give cool downs a shot, you might like them better.

For a long time I was an advocate of warm downs, running on the idea of heat in the course of PE is always useful. But I've found that only during the course of PE is heat particularly useful. The end of a session is another phase and should be treated as such. I gave cool downs a shot a few months ago and have been doing them ever since.

Once I'm at the end of a session, I want things to heal in my enlongated or pumped state. Applying a cool compress helps to tighten tissues in that state. I only apply for a minute - 2 min max - then, if it's a morning session, I'll take a hot shower. My flaccid stays longer and fuller throughout the day, which I see contributing to cementing gains.

Cool downs have worked wonders and a permanent part of my routine now.

To be totally honest, neither. I usually strap into my extender and keep my dick in an extended state. It has always worked for me so far. Or else I just do nothing and let it cool down to room temperature.

My experience with cool downs ( I use a cold wash cloth for 5 mins ) Is that my penis didn't turtle when applying the method.

I've also discovered that caffeine makes my penis turtle post workout no matter what I do...so I quit it :D

My honest opinion, they are a waste of time. I have never done either and have gained an inch and 1/2 in length. I think a quick and thorough massage as a warm down is much better.

Once good fresh blood is circulated and plumped up that is all you need and better than slapping a cloth with hot or cold water on it.

I warm down for up to an hour if im just staying home studying. Shove a rice sock in my pants and open my textbooks. I don't know if everyone needs to do it, but it works womders on my flaccid hang and any soreness I would otherwise experience.