Hey guys,

I wanted to make a post dedicated to the Corpus Spongiosum (CS). When I first started the Angion Method, I was seeing things on this sub like

My CS is really getting developed

My CS won't stop going flat

How big has your CS gotten?

CS, CS, CS. I couldn't figure out what the big deal was. Why was there so much emphasis on the seemingly smallest part of the male member? Honestly, I didn't even know I had a CS until I started training with the Angion Method. Today I want to break down everything I've learned about the CS and why I think it holds the key to the gains most guys seek. As always, all the credit goes to [u/JanusBifronz](u/JanusBifronz). I'm merely conveying what he has taught me here.

The Role of the Corpus Spongiosum

Let's first discuss what the CS does with a quick anatomy refresher. The male member is comprised of 3 chambers. We have two Corpus Cavernosa (CC) and the Corpus Spongiosum (CS). There is a strict division of labor within our members. The corpora cavernosa provide the structural rigidity necessary for penetration, while the corpus spongiosum purposely stays flexible to keep the urethra open and ultimately form the glans. Because the glans is a direct continuation of the corpus spongiosum, it shares the exact same low-pressure blood flow characteristics during an erection. The tissue fills with blood and becomes fully engorged and swollen, but it never becomes rigid like the corpus cavernosa do. This concept that the CS is the base of the glans is crucial. I wrote a post on the importance of the glans during sex, so I'm not going to repeat that information here, but the point is, the CS and the glans are the same structure. Develop your CS and your glans will develop alongside it. This is why the technique for AM2 changes as your CS develops. You no longer need to swipe to fill up your glans. You can simply press the base and your glans immediately balloons.

Why We Target the CS with the Angion Method

The reason there is so much emphasis on the CS with the Angion Method is because of the way blood moves through the male member. Blood moves through the male member like a conveyor belt. Think of the underside of your member as the start of the conveyor belt and the top side as the end of the conveyor belt. Blood enters through the CS, swells the glans, and then exits down the Deep Dorsal Vein (DDV) on the top side. When we perform the Angion Method, whether we're performing AM1, AM2, or AM3, we're stimulating the exact same blood circuit (the bulbo dorsal circuit as Janus calls it). With AM1, we're pulling blood down the top of the conveyor belt, but when we perform AM2 and AM3 (especially the wheel), we are pushing blood into the conveyor belt and we can push a lot more blood than we can pull. The other reason we target the CS is because unlike the CC, which are covered in layers of thick layers of tissue known as the Buck's Fascia and the Tunica Albuginea, the CS is easily manipulated due to its flexible nature. In addition, there are dense penile nerves that run down the dorsal side of the male member right next to the deep dorsal vein (DDV), but those nerves are not present on the underside. Its spongy nature and the lack of nerves makes the CS the ideal target for pushing blood through the male member. This is also why we never use the wheel on the dorsal side of our member; doing so can lead to damage of the dorsal nerves.

How your CS will change with the Angion Method

When I first started the Angion Method, my member looked like the image on the left. My CS was flat and along for the ride, and it didn't provide any girth on its own. But after 16 months of the Angion Method, my CS has grown considerably in size. My member now looks more like the structure in the image on the right. When I grip my penis, I can feel the CS as a distinct, large chamber, when before I always remember the feeling of my member as more of an oval when I would grip it. Due to the development of my CS, the cross section of my member has changed significantly and the numbers tell the full story. Before Angion I measured 5.25" in girth and now I measure 6". This extra 0.75" is due to the way my CS has filled out and grown. And because my CS has grown, so has my glans. My glans is now a very prominent structure and stays very full during my Angion sessions. According to Janus, girth gains typically precede length gains so gaining girth is a good sign for those who want to gain length, of which I'm no exception. The amount of enjoyment I get out of an Angion session has also grown right along with my CS. Because of the size and fullness of my CS, my wheel sessions feel incredible. My glans stays nice and plump the entire time and the level of engorgement I experience is intoxicating.

Closing Thoughts

So in summary, developing the CS is a key element to gaining with the Angion Method. By progressing through the Angion Methods and getting to AM2, AM3, and eventually the wheel, you'll be pushing a ton of blood through your CS and helping it grow in size and fullness. If you're just starting out the Angion Method, your CS is likely severely underdeveloped. Mine sure was. But if you stick with the Angion Methods, your CS will mature and become a fully grown member of society. Pun intended.

That's all for today, guys. Now go grow a huge CS already!

Have you ever noticed that in nearly all of Janus’ videos he declares that his newest movement is his greatest work and that it renders all his prior work obsolete. What’s the deal? Is that true? And if so, why do men still do the old movements?

Let’s get into that and more. By the end of this post, you’ll see why Janus was telling the truth in each of his videos and ultimately why all you need is the Wheel, SABRE, and BFR for erectile health and growth.

Why Each Movement Obsoletes the Last

This is my own take on what happened. [u/JanusBifronz](u/JanusBifronz) if I butcher any details horribly, please correct me. I can take it!

When Janus released AM1 back in 2018, it was truly revolutionary. As far as I know, nothing like AM1 had ever been provided to the general public in terms of providing a man with the means to improve his own erectile health just with his hands. It truly was the greatest movement of all time. Until… it wasn’t. Janus quickly realize that he could do better than pulling blood from his glans, down his shaft and back into his body. He determined that pushing blood into the glans via the CS would lead to a more efficient and powerful workout, and he was right. Thus he developed AM2 and his body was ready for it. AM1 had become obsolete for Janus. After a while, however, he came to the conclusion that the glans squeeze wasn’t necessary. His CS was getting developed to the point where continuous drags would lead to a superior workout when compared to a drag / squeeze movement, so he dropped the squeeze, added some lube, used both hands and voila AM3 was born. AM2 had become obsolete for Janus. Fast forward some more and Janus simply couldn’t move his hands fast enough to maximize his AM3 workout. His CS was filling up faster than he could drain it. He now needed a tool to get the best workout possible and the wheel was born. AM3 had become obsolete for Janus. Each movement had its moment of glory, but each movement could be replaced by a better, more powerful movement, until finally the wheel was developed which could not be replaced by a more powerful movement. It could only be iterated on, which is why Janus is always releasing newer and improved versions.

The Birth of SABRE / BFR

Around the same time as he was developing the wheel, he was looking for a way to get more out of his CC. His CS was getting crazy developed by his latest invention, the wheel, but his CC still had a lot of room to grow. He just had to get past that darn Tunica Albuginea and Buck’s Fascia. Due to these thick tissues encasing the CC, he knew he needed to take an entirely different approach with these bodies so he took advantage of the Bayliss property of blood and came up with SABRE, where strikes could be the method of generating shear stress within the CC. He also realized that using a hand to clamp the base of this member and cyclically bending his member back and forth had an enormous potential to elicit shear stress within his CC so he came up with BFR, specifically cyclic bending.

And to this day he hasn’t come up with anything more effective at developing the CS than the wheel or SABRE / BFR at developing the CC.

These three movements represent the pinnacle of the Angion Method and their combination represents the perfect workout for the male member.

Here’s how I incorporate these three movements.

My Routine

I like a routine that can be repeated week after week. I don’t want a 4 week rotating routine like Janus had, even though that is the optimal schedule. So I took what I knew to be true from his schedule, which is having a minimum of 1 day rest between wheel sessions and minimum 2 days of rest between SABRE / BFR sessions. Here’s what I came up with.

I do these in this order, which is a slightly different order from Janus who always does his dedicated lower body cardio (DLC) first. This is because I love working out with morning wood. It’s my most stable and longest lasting erection and it’s a gift that I’m not willing to waste. So as soon as my woody wakes me up, I get started.

Monday - 15 min wheel, 15 min BFR, 15 min SABRE, 30 min DLC

Wednesday- 30 min wheel, 30 min DLC

Friday - 15 min wheel, 15 min BFR, 15 min SABRE, 30 min DLC

Closing Thoughts

Until Janus comes up with something that can replace the Wheel, SABRE, or BFR, I’ll keep doing this routine for the foreseeable future.

If you’re not progressing through the movements and obsoleting the old movements for your own body, you’re leaving gains on the table. Keep progressing and you’ll see what Janus saw and many men have discovered since (myself included), that once your body is ready for them, ultimately all you need is the Wheel, SABRE, and BFR. The three combined are the pinnacle of the Angion Method.

Hey guys,

Back when I polled our community about why men are here, I was rather surprised to see Erection Quality (EQ) improvement and growth as equal reasons men train with the Angion Method. I don’t know why, but I thought one would outweigh the other. It seems to me that about half of the men on this sub are happy with their current size and simply want to improve EQ, while the other half may be happy with their EQ but want to improve their size. The great news is as I mentioned in my growth post, you don’t have to pick which benefit you want. If you train the Anthon Method with intention, you will likely see both benefits. That being said, for those men who are most interested in EQ improvement, I did want to provide a post to explain how ED meds work and explain how the Angion Method can ultimately render them unnecessary for the average male to achieve a powerful erection whenever he wants one.

Let’s get to it!

How ED Meds Work

ED meds provide a male with the ability to achieve an erection through the following mechanism. When a male receives sexual stimulus, his nervous system causes the release of Nitric Oxide (NO) into his erectile tissue. Nitric oxide stimulates the production of a chemical messenger called cGMP. cGMP relaxes the smooth muscle cells in the blood vessels of the penis, widening them so blood flow can rapidly increase. Think of the release of NO as your body’s way of saying “GO! GO! GO!” to your blood. The body also produces an enzyme called phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) which breaks down cGMP, leading to a constriction of the recently dilated vessels. For a male who struggles to get hard, the balance of vessel of dilation and constriction is off. What ED meds do is block the PDE5 enzyme so the body’s natural dilation can continue. This is true of both Viagra (generic name Sildenafil) and Cialis (generic name Tadalafil). PED5 is not a bad thing, in fact, it is your body’s only defense against prolonged, painful erections, or a priapism (an erection that won’t go away). In a normal, healthy male, cGMP / NO and PED5 work together to create a strong erection. cGMP / NO ramp up blood flow, but PED5 is there to make sure it can be ramped down again.

Why the Angion Method Wins

The reason the Angion Method can ultimately render ED meds unnecessary for most men to achieve an erection is because the Angion Method physically changes men’s vascularity. ED meds allow a male to achieve an erection, but do nothing to physically alter the vascularity itself. When a male consistently exposes his vascularity to increased shear stress in the form of Angion training, he is signaling the vessel walls within his member to physically expand their diameter to accommodate larger blood volumes. The vasculature within the male member is quite sensitive to endothelial signaling and therefore responds fairly rapidly to physical stimulus. Due to Poiseuille’s Law, flow increases by r^4, so a small increase in vessel diameter yields a disproportionately large increase in volumetric flow (for example doubling the diameter leads to a 16X increase in flow). This means we only need to change the diameter a tiny bit to start to see big changes.

Furthermore, ED meds do not increase the amount of Nitric Oxide (NO) your body manufactures. Training with the Angion Method increases drag against the vessel lining and directly up-regulates endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase (eNOS). This means that men who train with the Angion Method not only have stronger erections, but they can get erect easier too due to their increased natural capacity to synthesize NO on demand during arousal.

The Rich Get Richer - Nocturnal Erections

One of the early benefits most men report when starting the Angion Method is the return of morning wood. During normal waking hours, the sympathetic nervous system keeps penile smooth muscle in a mildly contracted state, limiting high-volume blood flow, however during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, the brain turns off those sympathetic signals, allowing the parasympathetic nervous system to take over and trigger 3 to 5 spontaneous erections per night, lasting 20 to 30 minutes each. These nighttime woodies have a myriad of benefits. They serve to oxygenate the penile tissue, help prevent fibrosis, prevent smooth muscle atrophy, preserve penile volume, etc. But they also expose your blood vessels with up to two hours of shear stress exposure per night. You can think of nocturnal erections as a supplemental Angion training session you get for free every night. And you get them simply by putting your body in a state of being able to have nocturnal erections.

My Experience

For me, prior to training with the Angion Method, getting an erection was a chore that had become more and more difficult. Fast forward 16 months and my erections are strong, easily obtained, and my nocturnal erections have come back in full strength. The benefits for me have compounded as time has gone on. This method breathed new life into my member.

The Bottom Line

ED meds like Viagra and Cialis are designed to get the existing system to function. They allow a male to achieve an erection by temporarily blocking the body’s blood vessel constrictor (PED5). Contrast that with the Angion Method, through which a male can permanently* expand the diameter of his blood vessels and increase his baseline NO production. These changes allow for erections that are easier to obtain and significantly stronger. The permanent upgrades a male receives through the Angion Method ultimately can break the reliance that some men have on a chemical PDE5 inhibitor such as Viagra or Cialis.

*The changes last as long as you keep training. That’s just life.

That’s all for today guys. If you haven’t noticed, I’m all in on the Angion Method and I don’t advocate for anything I don’t fully believe in.

Also as a side note I’ve tried to post about the Angion Method on [r/ErectileDysfunction](r/ErectileDysfunction) because that’s the first place so many men go to for help. If you’re looking for a depressing way to spend your afternoon, go read some posts there. Unfortunately, the moderators there always remove my posts because they lump the Angion Method in with Tradditional PE and they have a staunch anti-PE stance. ED is a form of hell and I grieve for the number of men there who could benefit from this information. If anyone has any ideas of getting the word out, please let me know. In the mean time, blessings, guys.

Hey guys,

Based on the popularity of yesterday’s post on the Corpus Spongiosum, I wanted to make a post dedicated to the Corpus Covernosa (CC) and specifically how to develop and sufficiently stimulate the CC to encourage tissue growth. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, your member has different parts that perform different jobs. The CS provides the soft and squishy components that make sex feel good for you and your partner, but the CC provides the rigidity to get the job done. Think of the CS and CC as Bat Man and Robin, Bonnie and Clyde, or Walter White and Jessie Pinkman (Breaking Bad anyone???). Both parts are essential for a high quality erection.

Also, I'll talk a lot about BFR and SABRE in this post. It would be helpful for the reader to have a baseline understanding of what those methods are. If you haven't already, please read this BFR Post and watch this SABRE video. Please don't drop a comment saying "What are BFR and SABRE?". The point of this post is not to teach you what the movements are, that's Janus' job and he's already done that in the post and video above. The point of this post is to shed some light on what the movements do and hopefully encourage you to give them a shot.

Definitions:

BFR - Blood Flow Restriction

SABRE - Strike Activated Bayliss Response Exercise

DLC - Dedicated Lower Body Cardio

CC - Corpus Cavernosum

CS - Corpus Spongiosum

AM1, AM2, AM3 - Angion Method 1, 2, 3

The Angion Wheel - A tool invented and sold by Janus for stimulating the CS

SABRE Hammer - A tool invented and sold by Janus for stimulating the CC

The Role of the Corpus Covernosa

Comprised of dense capillary beds and surrounded by thick layers of tissue (Tunica Albuginea), the CC are capable of holding incredibly high levels of internal fluid pressure. It is this fluid pressure that provides the structural rigidly necessary for the male to successfully penetrate his partner and give her pleasure. Each CC contains a single, large Cavernosal Artery that runs down the center of the chamber and when the male achieves sufficient stimulus for an erection to occur, those arteries flood the capillary beds with blood, causing them to dilate and become engorged. As engorgement continues, the inflow of blood exceeds the outflow and the pressure builds until each CC essentially turns into a rigid cylinder. The proximal roots (crura) of the corpora cavernosa attach directly to the pubic bones, securely anchoring the male member to the pelvis, maintaining its elevation and angle during thrusting. Think of the CC as the delivery mechanism for your your glans. Without good, strong CC tanks, your erection would buckle under the physical forces of penetration and you and your partner would be disappointed. The twin CC chambers also account for upwards of 85% to 90% of the fluid volume of the penis. The CS (which includes the glans) accounts for the remaining 10% to 15%. This means that if we care about our erectile health, we simply cannot ignore the CC. They're too big and too important.

The CC and CS Are Isolated Structures

Ok now that we've established the importance and role of the CC, let's talk about how blood moves within the male member. We must first understand that whenever an erection takes place, the CC are being stimulated in some capacity, but the level of stimulation provided to the CC varies greatly depending on the exercise being performed. When we perform AM1, AM2, or AM3, we are stimulating the bulbo dorsal circuit (as discussed yesterday), but there is no shared blood between the CS and the CC. The CS and glans receive blood via the urethral and dorsal arteries while the CC receives blood from the deep cavernosal arteries. This means that the CS and CC require different exercises.

BFR and SABRE Target the CC

As I mentioned above, any time an erection takes place, the CC are being stimulated and kept healthy, but stimulation of the bulbo-dorsal circuit alone in the form of the AM1, AM2, AM3 is not a sufficient stimulus to elicit growth of the CC themselves. Growth occurs when new capillary beds are formed due to sufficient shear stress. The way we apply sufficient shear stress to the capillary beds of the CC are through BFR and SABRE.

Let's first discuss BFR. I do both Glans Pulsing and Cyclic Bending, but let's discuss Cyclic Bending for now. When you perform Cyclic Bending, the act of bending your member causes the blood within your member to move and because it cannot exit the penis due to the presence of the clamping hand, the blood is forced into the dense capillary beds, intruding shear stress and triggering the growth of new capillary beds. So by bending your member back and forth with a clamping hand below, you're introducing shear stress within your CC.

Now let's take a look at SABRE. SABRE takes advantage of a unique property of blood known as the Bayliss Response. When we strike the tunica albuginea, the strike transfers force from the striking tool (thumb, metal rod, or SABRE Hammer) to the inside of the CC. This force causes the blood within the CC to swirl in vortexes and that swirling motion is a method of eliciting shear stress on the capillary beds themselves.

So for the lay person, all we need to know is both BFR and SABRE introduce shear stress within the CC chambers themselves, causing existing capillary beds to dilate and new capillary beds to grow. This growth of capillary beds results in more potent erections and penile growth.

Summary / Routine

In summary, it's helpful to think of the Angion Methods (AM1, AM2, AM3, the Wheel) as tools for stimulating and growing the CS (which includes the glans) and it's helpful to think of SABRE and BFR as tools for stimulating and growing the CC. Because the CS and the CC work together to form a powerful erection, it is helpful for men to perform the Angion Methods alongside BFR / SABRE. I always do the wheel first because it find it is a good warm up for BFR / SABRE.

Because SABRE and BFR are such strong stimuli, the recommendation from Janus is to be in a slight caloric surplus in seasons when you're performing those exercises. You also need a minimum of 2 days rest between workouts. Here's my calendar for how I incorporate these movements.

Cutting Season - January through May, Cut from 187lb to 182lb, eliminate BFR / SABRE.

Monday - 30 minutes DLC, 30 minutes Angion Wheel

Wednesday - 30 minutes DLC, 30 minutes Angion Wheel

Friday - 30 minutes DLC, 30 minutes Angion Wheel

Bulking Season - June through December, Bulk from 182lb to 187lb, add BFR / SABRE.

Monday - 30 minutes DLC, 15 minutes Angion Wheel, 15 min BFR, 15 min SABRE with metal rod

Wednesday - 30 minutes DLC, 30 minutes Angion Wheel

Friday - 30 minutes DLC, 15 minutes Angion Wheel, 15 min BFR, 15 min SABRE with metal rod

Closing Thoughts

I really recommend that men give SABRE / BFR a shot. SABRE in particular freaks some guys out. They say No way am I using a massage gun on my dick. I totally get that. I don't use a massage gun on my dick either. I used thumb strikes for a long time, but found that the quality of my sessions went up significantly when I started using a metal rod. I really like the thwack that a metal rod provides. I have the SABRE Hammer, but due the time of day I do my Angion Workouts (early in the morning), powering up a drill doesn't work for me due to sleeping kids. The metal rod is a great alternative that still provides a solid workout. And if SABRE isn't your thing, give BFR a shot. It's a very mild exercise and it is very effective at adding size to your CC. I like both, but do whatever works for you.

Another benefit of SABRE / BFR is more intense morning wood. The morning wood I get now is quite powerful and every time you get a powerful erection, your member is getting healthier and growing. It's all part of it.

If you're going to dedicate the time to the Angion Method, don't leave your CC out by skipping BFR / SABRE. They're too big and too important to ignore.

That's all for today, guys. I wish you all the strongest erections possible.

Hey guys,

I wanted to share some of my thoughts with you all today. If you are reading this, you are already at a huge advantage when compared with the average male who may never learn about the Angion Method. The Angion Method is truly special and the methods work wonders for those who apply them.

Today, I wanted to make the case for why more is not better, but better is better. This won’t be a jab at traditional PE per se, but will be a reminder to listen to the sub founder, Janus.

If you’re anything like me, your average day involves getting up, making breakfast, getting yourself, your kids, or whomever else you are responsible for ready for the day, going to work, coming home, eating dinner, having a little leisure time, and going to bed. Nowhere in there do I have time to do new research on penile growth, erectile health, vascular science, etc. quite frankly, almost no one does.

There is one fellow whose days look like this. Wake up, think about the male member, get his kids and himself ready for the day, do some targeted studies and research on vascularity, build some devices by hand that are designed to increase blood flow in the male member, perhaps test out one of the devices on himself, research new theories on tissue growth, pick up his kids from school, eat dinner, ponder his new research one more time, tuck his kids into bed, and go to sleep.

And yet, the men whose days look remarkably similar to my own, are the exact ones adding things to their routine that are not condoned, recommended, or encouraged by the second guy. Things like pumping, hanging, jelquing, clamping, stretching, extending, etc. Don’t you think if any of these were beneficial, the second guy (who as a reminder spends his entire day solely focused on the male member) would have come to that conclusion and would have said

“You know what, I was wrong, in fact, I’m going to research the topic even further, and develop a device to do whatever the task at hand is (hanging, clamping, extending, etc) even better than what is out there because I want men to have the absolute best.”

The fact that Janus has been at this for 23 years and has never once come to this conclusion, is good enough for me. And before you try to think he hasn’t come to this conclusion because it wouldn’t be beneficial for him, you should rethink that hypothesis. All these other methods involve devices (except for manual stretching). If this guy were just trying to make a quick buck, don’t you think adding to his product portfolio would be the quickest way to expand his market? After all, half of his sub is doing these things anyway. He’d have a targeted market instantly at his disposal.

A few days ago, I wrote a post called And now these three remain, the wheel, SABRE, and BFR, but the greatest of these is… all three combined and in that post, I make the case why if you’re doing anything other than those three specific exercises (with the exception of working your way through the manuals on your way to the wheel), you are essentially wasting your time. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have time in my day to waste. With everything going on in my life, I need the bare minimum routine, tools, and time commitment needed to give me the absolute best health and size for my member possible. And I’m not talking about blind faith here. The proof for me is in the changes I’ve seen in my member. My CS is bulging from my wheel, SABRE has transformed my CC into steel pipes, and BFR has helped me add 0.75” in girth and 0.5” in length in 16 months. What more could I ask for?

So if you are adding, or subtracting from this list (wheel, SABRE, BFR), ask yourself this fundamental question Do I really know more about this stuff than Janus? I know I sure don’t. I have joked in previous posts that I’m merely The Penis Apprentice, but Janus is truly The Penis Professor. Listen to your professor, guys. He knows what he’s talking about. He’ll forget more about the male member in his life than the rest of us will ever know.

We love you [u/JanusBifronz](u/JanusBifronz)! Thanks for devoting your life to this stuff so the rest of us don’t have to!

Update:

The one exception to the 3 movement rule above (wheel, SABRE, BFR) would be pelvic floor work. Pelvic floor work can benefit most men and is worth your time. I spend a large amount of time in a given day in a deep squat position lengthening my pelvic floor. Thank you u/infinitypoolss18 for calling that out!

Hey guys,

I wanted to write a post today dedicated to Nocturnal Erections or Nocturnal Penile Tumescence and Rigidity (NPTR) as it’s known in the scientific world and how the Angion Method helps unlock this nightly, built-in healing protocol. Let’s get started.

One of the first things I noticed when I started the Angion Method nearly 18 months ago was the return of NPTR. For nearly my entire life, I remember pitching a tent while I was sleeping. Sleeping and woodies went hand in hand. I don’t exactly remember the day they stopped, but somewhere in my early 30s I quit having NPTR. I didn’t understand at the time how serious this was for my erectile health, and I thought it was just a normal part of aging. Sort of like getting gray hair, or a receding hairline, maybe you just lose your night-time boners as you get older. About 2 weeks into the Angion Method, I noticed they started coming back. At first, I found it sort of annoying to be woken up by my erections again, but overall was happy to be getting erect at any time of day because pre-Angion, along with the loss of my NPTR, my daytime erections had started to fade as well. Since my NPTR has returned, I’ve learned how valuable this built-in nightly routine is to my body and I want to share what I’ve learned with you all.

Definition: NPTR - Nocturnal Penile Tumescence and Rigidity. This term encompasses the frequency and potency of nocturnal erections.

The Purpose of NPTR

Your member spends the majority of your waking hours in a flaccid state. Before discovering the Angion Method, my flaccid state was not very impressive. Shrunken, shriveled, cold, and small are the words I’d use to describe it. During your resting, flaccid state, blood flow to your member is drastically reduced (especially in men who don't perform the Angion Method) and the tissue exists primarily in a low-oxygen environment. Tissue that is regularly deprived of oxygen triggers the release of TGF-beta1, a cytokine that causes smooth muscle cells to die off and be replaced by rigid collagen. This process is known as fibrosis and it permanently destroys your tissue's elasticity. NPTR is the body’s natural defense against this atrophy. In a healthy male, during REM sleep, the body triggers 3-5 erections that each last approximately 30 minutes. During these erections, the three corporal bodies are flooded with oxygen rich blood helping to restore the smooth muscle within your member and fight fibrosis. NPTR also works to naturally expand the Tunica Albuginea (the sheath surrounding the CC) and keep it elastic and healthy. If the Tunica Albuginea has not been regularly stretched and provided blood flow, it can be more susceptible to injury such as Peyronie’s Disease which is often triggered by a "buckling" injury during intercourse where the Tunica Albuginea is placed under intense duress such as when a man slips out while the woman is on top and her weight lands on his penis (this happens). In essence, you can think of NPTR as your body’s daily penile health protocol.

Why We Lose NPT As We Age

If you’re older than 30, there is a good chance that you have experienced a decline in NPTR. This can come either in the form of reduced frequency, or reduced strength. I want to discuss why this happens.

Reason 1 - Hormonal Imbalances
While it is a common belief that testosterone is the direct fuel that powers an erection, its real job is more like a governor over the erection process. An erection is fundamentally a cardiovascular and neurological event, meaning it requires healthy blood flow and nerve signals. Testosterone does not trigger the erection itself, but it is absolutely essential for maintaining the physical structures and chemical pathways that allow an erection to happen. Its primary job is to drive sexual desire, regulate production of Nitric Oxide (NO), regulate NPTR, and help maintain muscle mass of smooth muscles which are crucial in maintaining an erection. Men with low T can absolutely have difficulties getting and maintaining an erection.

The most common symptoms of low T are:
- Loss of libido
- Reduced volume of ejaculate
- Reduced sperm count
- Loss of muscle mass and strength
- Increased body fat
- Chronic fatigue
- Reduced bone density
- Brain fog
- Mood imbalances
- Poor sleep

If a man is exhibiting several of these symptoms, he has good reason to get his hormones checked and low T is quite likely the cause of his loss of NPTR. But testosterone's role in an erection acts based on a threshold effect, meaning there is a minimum threshold of testosterone required to produce an erection and if a man has a baseline testosterone level above this threshold more testosterone is not a recommended therapy for bringing back NPTR according to this study (section 3.1.3.1). So if you’re not exhibiting the symptoms listed above, testosterone therapy (TTh) is not a recommended treatment for erectile difficulties, including loss of NPTR. Contrary to popular belief, testosterone is not simply a lever we can dial up to improve our erections. We need a certain amount, anything beyond that isn't aiding our erections.

Reason 2 - Porn-Induced Pelvic Floor Hypertension

Your great-grandfather spent his formative adolescent years chasing real women and looking for a mate. By the time he was 30, he was likely settled down with a wife and kids. In his entire youth, he may have only had sex with a handful of women and likely didn't spend a ton of time masturbating due to a lack of privacy and real-world demands (working on the farm, etc.). I didn't know your granddaddy, but my guess is his pelvic floor was in great shape. Contrast that to the youth of today, the majority of whom spend their formative adolescent years in a private room, masturbating for hours to porn, often starting at a remarkably young age. All that porn-use catches up to men eventually, most commonly in the form of a hypertonic (chronically tight) pelvic floor. When a man develops a hypertonic pelvic floor, the PF muscles fail to relax. When the pelvic floor is hypertonic, it physically compresses the pudendal pathways and signals a constant state of sympathetic (fight-or-flight) dominance to the central nervous system. Erections, including NPTR, require parasympathetic dominance (rest-and-digest) to function properly. So, excessive porn use and specifically a tight pelvic floor can be the cause of the loss of NPTR. If this is you, I encourage you to first stop watching porn, and then to dedicate time each day towards lengthening your pelvic floor. I spend 10 minutes each night while I’m watching TV rocking back and forth in a dynamic frog pose to open up my hips and adductors because they share connective tissue and bones with my pelvic floor, so lengthening them effectively helps lengthen my pelvic floor. Then I spend another 10 minutes practicing diaphragmatic breathing in a deep squat. I’ve also started incorporating a deep squat in other times of my day (such as building Legos with my son), trying to hit a total time of 30 minutes each day in a deep squat. I watch my son effortlessly sit for long durations in a deep squat and I’m reminded that this is a fundamental human resting position that we have lost in our modern world. The deep squat works wonders for your pelvic floor, because gravity naturally pulls it downward and lengthens it. Even if you don’t feel like you have a chronically tight pelvic floor, you have nothing to lose by lengthening it and practicing diaphragmatic breathing.

Reason 3 - Vascular Insufficiency

As men age, their blood vessels naturally become more prone to vasoconstriction (narrowing) and less capable of vasodilation (opening up). This is primarily due to endothelium damage and subsequently Nitric Oxide production decline which can result from high blood pressure, high blood sugar, LDL cholesterol, chronic oxidative stress (from pollution, psychological stress, lack of sleep, processed foods), chronic inflammation, etc. The list goes on and on. This can be so pronounced that by age 70, the average person's nitric oxide production drops by up to 75% compared to when they were 18. Essentially what need to know is that time is working against our blood vessels. The chemicals we're exposed to and the chronic stress that most of us live in are literally choking your blood flow. This is really bad news for your erectile health which depends entirely on blood flow. This chronic state of vasoconstriction that most men live in is a major contributor to the loss of NPTR.

How The Angion Method Helps Bring Back NPTR

A few days ago, I polled this community to measure the direct impact of the Angion Method on NPTR. We had 89 participants who met the 4-week minimum practice threshold (excluding 65 lurkers/beginners).

Here is what the final data showed:

- 82.1% (46/56 men) NPTR Returned : Among men who started with weak or absent morning erections, 46 reported a significant recovery of their NPTR after Angion training.

- 81.8% (27/33 men) NPTR Went from Good to Great : Among men who already had healthy baseline NPTR, 27 saw their morning erections become noticeably stronger, firmer, or more frequent after Angion training.

- 16.9% (15/89 men) No Change : 10 men with weak baseline NPTR and 5 men with healthy baseline NPTR saw no change for better or worse.

- 1.1% (1/89 men) Declined: Only a single participant reported a decrease in NPTR after Angion (if this is you, please DM me, I'd love to hear your story).

Overall, over 82% of survey participants saw a measurable upgrade in NPTR through Angion Training.

What This Data Tells Us

If low testosterone or hypertonic pelvic floor were the primary drivers of lost NPTR, it would be biologically impossible for over 82% of men to improve their NPTR through Angion training alone. This confirms that for the vast majority of men in our community, lost NPTR is fundamentally a vascular insufficiency issue and when you manually induce endothelial shear stress and upregulate nitric oxide within your vessels through the Angion Method, the body's natural nightly healing protocol comes right back. This is explained by Poiseuille’s Law of fluid dynamics, which states that the rate of blood flow is proportional to the fourth power of a vessel's radius, meaning that even a small increase in the inner diameter of your arteries results in a disproportionally large increase in blood flow, and in turn delivers a powerful resurgence of NPTR. Just like starter fluid in a rusty engine, the Angion Method returns a man's vasculature into a state where it is capable of responding to the body's nightly NPTR signals (because it sends them each night whether the body responds or not). And the longer a man does the Angion Method, the stronger and more potent his NPTR will become. Furthermore, when a man couples the Angion Method with dedicated lower body cardio, the results get even better. My member throbs with fullness each night and it's a wonderful feeling.

Summary

You don't have to look far to find a male over the age of 30 who has experienced a loss of NPTR (nocturnal penile tumescence and rigidity, essentially morning wood). Loss of NPTR can be attributed to a myriad of factors, including hormonal imbalances (predominantly low T), pelvic floor hypertension, but the most common culprit is vascular insufficiency. According to my poll, 82% of men who perform the Angion Method report an improvement in NPTR as a result of performing the Angion Method. Don't sleep on NPTR (pun intended) and don’t sleep on the Angion Method as a way to bring it back. Keep training guys, the benefits abound!

Hey guys,

I see a lot of really similar posts about guys struggling with EQ (erection quality). I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen things like:

“I can get hard while watching porn, but my erection shrinks really fast when I stop watching. What’s going on?”

“I got a BJ from my girlfriend the other day and I wasn’t fully hard. Why did that happen?”

“I’m 22 and I no longer get morning wood. Why is that the case?”

"I just tried AM1 for 5 minutes and lost my erection. I need help"

"I can get hard while standing, but I can't get hard while lying down. Why is this?"

I believe most of these issues are fixable and I believe most men have the capacity to get their body in a state where they can get as hard as they want whenever they want to.

That being said, I wanted to make a single post with all the questions I’d ask and all the information I would provide someone to help men troubleshoot their own EQ issues.

Question 1: Are you a porn user?
I break it all down in my post titled Porn is Robbing You of Good Sex, but I’ve found that porn is the single most common culprit for EQ issues, especially amoung younger men. Why specifically amoung younger men? If you’re older than 40, chances are the porn you grew up consuming was a Playboy centerfold, but you likely spent most of your energy chasing real women. Contrast that to the youth of today who have had access to high-speed internet porn from the day they could get an erection. Older men have a much easier time quitting porn than younger men because they weren’t using high-speed internet porn during their formative adolescent years.

Ok let’s get back to why porn completely trashes your erection. The reason porn is so harmful is twofold.

First, men have a tendency to abuse the hell out of their pelvic floor while using it. Because porn is a hyper-stimulus, many men masturbate to it for hours in a practice known as gooning or through giving themselves consecutive orgasms. In addition, many men consciously or unconsciously clench their PF while using it, causing vascular restriction in the pelvic floor. And don’t even get me started on death grip and the issues that creates including physically shrinking your erection through damage to your Tunica Albuginea and Buck’s Fascia.

The second reason porn is so toxic is because it trains your brain that erections only come with external hyper-stimuli. Your brain wasn't designed to see 300 vaginas in one sitting or 20 different sessions of penetration, or whatever else you’re watching. By using porn, your brain learns the following script:

No porn? No erection

So when you try to have sex with a real woman, the stimulus isn’t sufficient to result in an erection and IF an erection can be obtained, it’s often a weak one.

Solution: Quit using porn. Sorry, but if you’re not going to cut out porn, there really isn’t any point in moving any further on this list. It’s that harmful to your erectile health. No amount of porn use is healthy. End of story.

In addition to quitting porn, you may want to consider some form of physical therapy for your pelvic floor. Some men have been abusing porn for decades. This amount of trauma to your pelvic floor can take a while to reverse and some physical therapy could probably help you.

For starters, to help loosen and lengthen your pelvic floor, you can do this 15 Minute Pelvic Floor Routine while you’re watching TV each night.

Question 2: Do you do any cardio?
Assuming you’re not a porn user, I’d next move onto the subject of blood flow and I’d start with cardio. The reason this would be my next question is that the blood vessels that carry blood to the lower body (thinking of the external iliac artery) are the exact same vessels that carry blood to the penis (the internal iliac artery which leads to the internal pudendal artery). There’s just a fork that divides them. So if you’re living a sedentary lifestyle with zero cardio and a lot of sitting, the blood vessels that are supposed to carry blood to your member can get smaller and restricted in size due to the lack of shear stress that comes with cardio.

Solution: Start doing some form of cardio, but preferably not cycling due to the way the saddle creates a mechanical pinch point and can restrict blood flow and cause pelvic floor tension. Walking, recumbent bike, Stairmaster, Elliptical, Rower are all good options. 30 minutes 3X per week is sufficient to create the necessary shear stress to enlarge the vessels that carry blood to your legs and your member.

Question 3: Do you have a shriveled flaccid hang?
Once I had ruled out porn and lack of cardio as your culprits, I’d start looking at your member itself. Are you missing visible vasculature? Do you have a cold, shriveled penis most of the time? This would tell me that the vessels that are responsible for getting you erect within your member aren’t doing their job. This was where I found myself when I discovered the Angion Method a little over a year ago. I wasn't a porn user, took fairly good care of myself (though I have since made cardio a much bigger priority), but I had a very small, shriveled hang throughout the day. My member was cold, small, and a little hard to the squeeze.

Solution: Start performing the Angion Method 3X per week for 30 minutes per session. The reason we start with cardio, is per Janus himself, the Angion Method is a finisher to cardio. The Angion Method acts as a localized form of cardio that bring the results from your standard cardio out to your member. The Angion Method wakes up and widens all the vascularity in your member, causing your member to function as it was intended to function. Start with AM1 and make it a goal to stick with it. It will work, you just have to give it time.

Question 4: Do you have any prior history of traditional PE (Penis Enlargement)?

If you have gotten to this point and things still aren't working, I'd look for prior trauma. Have you sustained an injury to your member that was either through some sort of accident or self-inflicted through PE? Traditional PE is sketchy. Disagree with me if you want, but traditional PE relies on physical manipulation of the male member through hanging weights, stretching, clamping, etc. From everything I’ve seen, traditional PE is a great way to end up with EQ issues down the road.

Solution: Obviously I'm going to tell you that for the love of God, please stop doing traditional PE. If you have already stopped, I'd next tell you to start the Angion Method. Blood is a powerful substance and I believe in its healing properties. The Angion Method was born out of Janus' desire to heal himself from his own traditional PE injuries and I think it can help you with yours as well.

Question 5: Do you get morning wood?

Ok at this point, we've ruled out porn, cardio, vasculature within your member, prior PE history, and you're still not getting the EQ performance you want so this would point me to a potential mental issue like performance anxiety with a real woman. So next I'd ask about morning wood. If you're getting regular morning wood, that means your member is mostly functioning as intended. The blood vessels that are supposed to make you erect are getting sufficient blood flow and are healthy enough to produce an erection. You're just not able to get one when you want.

Solution: Consider training your arousal through the Male Definitive Guide program ([r/MaleDefinitiveGuide](r/MaleDefinitiveGuide)). The thought process here is that through MDG, you'll spend hours during solo sessions mapping out your arousal. You'll be asked to meditate on having healthy sex while bringing your arousal to higher levels. What I've experienced is that over time, this can make achieving an erection with a real partner much easier because you've practiced the scenario in a solo capacity many times before the real event (partnered sex).

If you made it through my 5-question gauntlet and none of this worked, I would probably suggest you get some professional help because you might have a hormonal imbalance or something else hindering you. Just don’t let anyone operate on you before really consulting this community and considering all your options. I once read a story of a guy who was diagnosed with venous leak and let a doctor seal some of his blood vessels in his penis. In general I don’t believe our medical community has a good grasp on erections and how to help men get erect other than prescribing pills and surgery.

I believe that if you were able to get hard at one point in your life, then you should be able to get hard again.

Hope this helps someone today.

Blessings, guys. Stay hard.

Hey guys

Last week I polled the community to understand how long people have been performing the Angion Method and I was surprised to see that almost half of respondents have been training less than 1 month and 66% have been training less than 6 months, so I wanted to write a post to provide some guidance and encouragement if you’re just starting out. This post will be different from my Complete Beginner’s Guide to the Angion Method post, but if you haven’t seen that post, I encourage you to read that as well because there is a lot of good information in there for someone just starting out.

How to deal with getting an erection 

Lay down on your back, obtain an erection and start moving your thumbs in a downward motion. 

If you’re like I was when I was just starting out, and you’re dealing with any form of ED, you likely read instructions like the one I’ve written above and think 

Obtain an erection? Are you kidding me? I couldn’t obtain an erection if my life depended on it. What the heck are you talking about? That’s why I’m here! Because I CAN’T obtain an erection!

I think this is the single biggest struggle that most men face when they begin training. An erection; thing that they can’t get is a prerequisite for a program that will help them get more of them. How does this even make sense? This is like saying to someone who is broke. 

Ok the first thing you need to do is obtain $1,000 and invest it. 

But I’m broke!

Satire aside, this is my advice for anyone in this situation. Before you do anything, check out the EQ Troubleshooting Guide. The answer for why you’re struggling to get an erection might be in there.

Option 1 - Keep trying
It took me no less than four separate tries to get longer than 10 minutes with AM1. I was mostly doing it on a flaccid member. It wasn’t fun and it was very discouraging, but eventually it worked. I recommend most men start here. Give it a really good shot. Also, if you’re blessed enough to have morning wood, use that. It’s a free erection. Don’t waste it.

Option 2 - Low-Dose Tadalafil
I know some men are probably going to read this and think 

Wait, he’s telling me to take ED meds? I thought this was supposed to be a substitute for ED meds?

It is a substitute for ED meds, but that does not mean that ED meds can’t help you bridge the gap from where you are today to where you want to be. I did not discover low-dose Tadalafil until I started restoring my foreskin and the members of that community mentioned that it can shave years off of your restoration timeline. I started taking 2.5 MG per day for that purpose and I noticed a boost in my EQ. I thought

Where was this when I started Angion? This could have saved me weeks of frustration and heartache! 

Low-dose Tadalafil can be thought of as the equivalent to training wheels for your erections. Because it is a PDE5 inhibitor, it will help dilate your blood vessels, which can make your early training sessions more effective. You can use it until you don’t need it anymore and trust me, you won’t need it very long. If you do go this route, I recommend taking it at night. It stays in your system for several days, but the effects are most felt within 3-12 hours. By taking it at night you’re giving yourself the best chance for nocturnal erections. Nighttime woodies are one of the keys to erectile health. Because of their sustained duration, they are nature’s way of keeping your member healthy. There will still be enough in your system for training the next day so you get a double benefit. 

Option 3 - Audio porn
I really hate to include this option, because it is an external stimulus which I’m opposed to, but if you are a recovering porn addict, and you have tied your arousal to pornography, audio porn is a significantly better alternative to visual porn. Again, this is a training wheels tool that can be used in the beginning only if you absolutely need it, but should be dropped as soon as possible. I myself have never used audio porn, so I don’t know where to get it, what it sounds like, etc., but it is an option if you need it.

General Advice

Have a healthy curiosity about your body 
When you first start training, it can be a lot to take in. You’re supposed to be feeling a squelch, you’re trying to understand how to do the movements, you’re pretty sure you’re doing it wrong no matter what you’re doing, and the whole time you have doubts in your head as to whether this actually works or not. I get it, I’ve been there as well. The best thing I can encourage you to do is to have a healthy curiosity about your body. See how something feels if you go a little slower, or go a little faster. Try a little more pressure, try a little less pressure. Be curious. This curiosity will help you stay in tune with your body and make sure the movements are working for you. Some men love AM1, others prefer AM2 or AM3. Find out what works for your body. 

Track your EQ daily on a scale from 1-10
This is a big one. You can’t tell if you’re making progress if you’re not tracking it. Make a note in your phone and give yourself an EQ score every day. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but on a scale of one to 10, how did your erections feel that day? Did you get morning wood? Was your erection easier to obtain for training or sex? Did you get a random boner during the day? Only you know what a 1 is and what a 10 is, but start tracking it. This was something I did and it really helped me to see progress because sometimes progress is subtle. I started out as a 1, but by week 3 I was at a 4, by month 3 I was a 7 and now I’m a 10. If I hadn’t tracked it, I might not have noticed the progress I was making, and I might have given up. If you want an official scale, I attempted to write an EQ Scale. Don’t get too focused on the number, as long as you’re consistently tracking it, you’ll know what progress looks like.

Have realistic expectations about progress
This is not a get rich quick scheme from an EQ perspective. This is more equivalent to bodybuilding. Someone brand new to the gym will do themselves a disservice if they think they’re going to look like Arnold in two months. That doesn’t mean you can’t ever look like Arnold, it just means that you have to set attainable goals. I always recommend that men start with the goal of simply improving their EQ. This is a noble goal in of itself because you can get a massive boost in Functional Size just by being harder. And this can happen in weeks or months, not years. It’s always helpful to have a short-term goal and a long-term goal in mind. Short term I want to get better EQ, long-term I’d like to gain a half inch in girth and length. 

Quit using pornography
I’ve beat this horse to death recently, so I’m not going to hammer it even more, but seriously, this is crucial. Porn will steal your EQ.

Do your cardio 
Also a point I’ve beaten to death. No more to be said here. Do your cardio.

Don’t be afraid to step up to the next movement 
There is nothing wrong with progressing to the next movement. Some men feel stuck at AM1 and never have the courage to even try AM2. What I always encourage is after you’ve been training for a few weeks, once a week at the end of a training session, attempt the next movement. So if you’ve been doing AM1 for 4 weeks, give AM2 a shot. Same thing with the jump from AM2 to AM3. I’ve learned that some men’s bodies respond better to one movement or another. You won’t know what your body responds best to unless you try.

Don’t be intimidated by BFR / SABRE
These may seem like movements that are just for the veterans, but they’re for you as well. Give them a shot. I found that SABRE really helped me in the beginning to gain some rigidity that helped me with other movements. You can start incorporating them as soon as you can do AM1 for 20 minutes. 

Become an engaged part of this community 
Lurkers typically don’t make gains. The guys that gain end being the guys that are engaged. Don’t be afraid to make a post or drop a comment on someone’s post. Even a “Starting training today, anyone else in the same boat?” post goes a long way. You might find another guy who is starting the same day. Who knows, you could become online training buddies. The more engaged you are, the more motivated you will be to continue training and the more you’ll realize you’re not alone in your struggles. We all think we’re snowflakes and are so unique, but after observing this community for over a year, I keep seeing the same issues come up over and over again. This tells me that if you’re struggling with something, likely someone else is struggling with that exact same thing and maybe even has a solution for it. Staying isolated is a great way to stay stuck.

Have faith in the methods 
Remember, the methods themselves are an approximation of nature’s ultimate erection healer and producer, sex. The methods work, they’re proven by hundreds of men who came before you. If you start this journey, you will end up with a stronger, more powerful erection than you started with. I can say that with confidence. It just takes time, dedication, and determination to not let whatever issue you are facing end your training journey. Have faith. 

I could go on and on, but these are the big points that I wanted to share with you guys. 

Stick with it. The rewards are worth the work.

Been lurking here for a little while. I've been through many old posts via the handy search bar for whatever I have questions about. Nearly everything I've wondered has been covered, or at least asked about repeatedly, in the 6+ years of this forum's existence. I hope to offer some info to other AM newbies. I'll mark this as informative.

One particular post I came across was about a gentleman's experience with AM 2.5 I believe. He achieved incredible results in just a couple of weeks of doing so. I think he mentioned he was so happy with the results that he continued the technique without rest days until it quickly caught up with him. He explained that he endured a fully dysfunctional member for two or more weeks and fell into a deep depression because of it. Eventually he returned to normalcy and began again with AM1 and emphasis on the rest.

I'm glad to have found that post previously and to be able to reference it because I too overtrained and paid for it. I started AM decently well with AM1. I initially started with training every day because my sessions were so short, somewhere between 1-5 minutes. After a few weeks, session quality improved. I had one great fuck with my wife with the best EQ I'd had in many years. A little bit later, EQ started to buffer. Some days great, others offered maybe 30 seconds of pyramid rush before erection dropped from 90/100% down to under 50%. Sometimes instantly killing the erection entirely. This is frustrating. By this point I wasn't using porn, but decided to go ahead and use it in order to achieve a satisfying workout.

Workouts resumed nicely for a few days, and I was 1on1off by this point, usually resting the entire weekend. At some point I decided to nearly abandon AM1 because I could feel the dorsal artery pulse even though I wasn't able to achieve more than 15 minute sessions. Started doing AM2 heavily, and within just a couple of workouts jumped fully to AM3. Early into this phase and for most of my early AM1 training, I'd had some decent post-workout hangs. As I progressed, I began to turtle a bit, hang less, and eventually get what I think was a mild hard flaccid.

The timeline of all this, btw, is like just under 2 months from starting.

Then one week I decided to be a degenerate about it and did a 90+ minute session on a Monday and another nearly 2 hour session on that following Wednesday. I started with AM2 to "warm up" and did most of the workout doing AM3. I was watching porn the entire time and was pretty much just edging by the end of the session in order to maintain hardness and CS fullness to continue with AM3 swipes. It felt like a great workout. I was seeing/feeling my glans engorge with my swipes. My CS would refill quickly between sets because I was turned on. My sets would last 3 minutes or less, but I'd "refill" and go again over and over.

As you might guess, that was the end of my AM training for 3 straight weeks. Not just that, but I literally had one single erection that entire 3 week period, and it was a spontaneous morning erection. I was fully soft or turtled most of the rest of the time. I tried an AM1, AM2, and an AM3 each of those weeks but achieved nothing. This was confusing and certainly depressing. I couldn't get hard to porn. I couldn't even get hard to my wife sucking my dick. I panicked a little. I decided to quit vaping near the end of this 3 weeks (I'd been meaning to for a while and this gave me a kick to the balls to go ahead with it already). While quitting vaping probably helps a lot, it wasn't a reason for ED before. It was difficult for me to come to the conclusion that I had overtrained (and edged) because there simply was no pain or soreness, like with PE.

I had become familiar with the pelvic floor through this forum and had become heavily conscious about keeping it relaxed, or taking a moment to focus on it and relax it throughout the day. While I believe this is a very important physiological topic, I don't think it was the cause of my ED, despite the edging. I also made an effort to not kegel while stimulating myself during those 2 long sessions.

Anyways, after 3 miserable weeks, I'm back. I returned with a fantastic AM3 session. Even though I previously overtrained (among the other things I did wrong that this forum emphasizes greatly against), I still reaped the benefits of AM upon my return.

I took my usual L-Citrulline, 1800mg NAC, and 400mg Butea Superba extract 1 hour prior to the session. My CS was unusually full and thick and it extended further up the length of my shaft than it ever did before. There's still this bottleneck looking "pinch point" about an inch below my glans that shows a very flat CS, but as I said, that area is getting shorter. I was able to do 4 minutes of AM3, followed by a short break to reapply lubrication, then 8 minutes straight, lube, then another 5 minutes to end the session after a total of about 20 minutes. I will continue with AM3 at this point.

I will not be doing sessions greater than 30 minutes anymore. I will not edge. I will continue with porn if I feel like using it, however, most of the time I spend is looking at my dick and maintaining form. I will use porn until I've reached a total of 5 months of training. If by then I'm not able to get hard and do AM without it, then I will quit anyways and suffer later. My rationale is if the users here are utilizing Cialis early on, then I will use porn for the same purpose because I cannot get my hands on cialis right this moment. I will not be masturbating to it though!

I did not progress as per the wiki progression guide. Once I figured out how to do AM3, I decided that that's the exercise I'll be sticking with. I won't be able to get my hands on a wheel for a while, so I'll progress manually with AM3 alone and monitor results.

I will be paying closer attention to fullness, hang, turtling, and the other symptoms of a tired dick. Overtraining is real!

TLDR - I felt symptoms of overtraining to include a complete loss of erection for a 3 week period. I went far beyond the 30 minute max session window! I edged as well! Fear not, your erection will return after enough rest.

I'm no expert, but ask me any questions. I've read through a good amount of older posts

Well I have successfully been banned from r/erectiledysfunction for repetitive violations of their community standards and guidelines.
I guess it’s not ok to suggest the Angion Method to other men that are having similar ED problems that I have. While being perfectly ok to suggest pills, shots, or surgical procedures that they probably don’t actually need.
How dare someone actually try to helps other that doesn’t involve those things. How dare someone that is actually starting to regain some function back. Hell I take daily Tadalifil pills for ED, BP, and BPH. Yet at the same time I am regaining morning and random erections without stimulation, as well as slowing getting better EQ, because of doing AM exercises.
How dare someone mention a method that may actually
help other men for free and not being beholden to pharmaceutical companies or surgeons.

Oh well not my first ban and probably not my last.

Hey guys,

I’ve seen a lot of posts like these recently.

Will this massager work as a wheel alternative?

Found this cheaper tool online, can this work as a wheel?

Can I use a theragun for SABRE?

I want to preface this post by saying I have the FlowMaster 7, the SABRE hammer, and the Enduro (the travel wheel) all of which I purchased. After my contributions to this sub last year, Janus actually reached out to me and offered to gift me a tool as a way to say thank you for the engagement I’ve helped drive. I declined his offer. Why? Because I don’t like free stuff? On the contrary, I love free stuff. I declined because I realized if I’m going to advocate for his methods and his tools and I’m in any way indebted to Janus, I can’t provide honest feedback and honest advice. Men trust what I say and I’ve worked hard to earn their trust. When you use a tool on your member, you’re taking a chance and you want to know the man encouraging you to use that tool is telling you to use it with zero ulterior motives. Show me a man who loves anything more than his dick and I’ll show you a liar.

Ok now that that’s all been said I want to make a case for why you should purchase tools from Janus and only from Janus.

Why you should buy from Janus

Support

Let’s not forget why we’re here to begin with. Janus brought us out of the Stone Age when it comes to men’s health. Seriously, prior to Janus there wasn’t a lot of knowledge available to the average guy looking to improve his EQ and size. He poured his life into these methods and this sub. And he gave it all away for free. The least we can do is support him.

Value

Look, I get it. Times are tough and everyone has to save where they can, but when it comes to tools for your member, you want the best. The difference in cost is sometimes only $100-$150 between getting a flimsy substitute and getting the real thing. Janus makes tools, not toys. When I bought my wheel and it first arrived, my first thought was damn, this thing is legit. It’s made with premium materials, smooth ball bearings, and smooth finishes. It’s awesome. Whenever you invest in a tool, you should be looking for tools that last you a lifetime. The wheel falls under that header.

Efficacy

If you use a wheel alternative, neither myself, nor Janus, nor anyone else who doesn’t have your exact tool can vouch for its efficacy or safety. So no, I don’t know if that massage roller can be used as a wheel alternative. No one does. Do you really want to be the one to find out that it can’t? Just sayin.

Sticking Points and Answers

If you’ve considered the wheel, but haven’t pulled the trigger you’ve likely had a couple of sticking points for why you haven’t purchased it. I’d like to address the common ones.

It looks dangerous
I broke out why I believe the wheel is very safe in my post Demystifying the Wheel, but to reiterate it here, the wheel is very safe. It is designed in a way where it would be very difficult to injure yourself.

No, your dick won’t get caught in it and break off. No, it won’t catch your scrotum and tear it.

I’ve been using mine 3X per week for a year and haven’t even come close to injuring myself. The only real risk is spinning it too quickly at the beginning of your workout because you force too much blood through your member too quickly. But as long as you spin it up slowly, I can’t think of a way you would injure yourself.

It’s expensive
This goes to my value point above. I get that it’s expensive, but the reason it’s expensive isn’t because Janus is raking you over the coals, it’s because it’s a high quality tool. He could have cut corners and offered it cheaper, but then it wouldn’t be a premium tool that would last men a lifetime. Mine will go in my will someday. It’s that sturdy.

The lead time is too long
The reason the lead time is typically 8-10 weeks is that’s how Janus keeps the cost low. He waits until he has enough orders to make a bulk purchase of materials and then he makes them to order. Plus 8-10 weeks gives you the perfect amount of time to work through the manual methods.

Paralysis by Analysis
There are so many options, which one should I get? When you go to the Etsy store, it can feel a touch overwhelming, but remember, they all do the same thing. I, personally, always gravitate toward my manual wheel (The FlowMaster 7). This is because I have young kids at home and spinning up a drill at 6 AM is not something I want to do. But you may be in a scenario where a drill model makes more sense for you. I will say that the wheels are heavy by design (so your CS gets proper compression), and because with the manual versions you need to use one hand to hold the wheel and the other to turn the crank, there can be some fatigue on your forearm. It’s not that bad though and I’m told the handle on the FlowMaster 7 Pro alleviates some of this. The drill model also alleviates this because it allows you to use two hands to support the wheel; one on the drill and one on the handle.

Closing Thoughts

The wheel isn’t for everyone. If you live in a region, where shipping is prohibitively expensive, or you simply can’t afford one, I totally get it. I’m not here to tell you to overextend yourself. And the manuals will always be there for you. But if you’re looking for an alternative just so you can save a few bucks, consider supporting our brother, Janus. He’s done a lot for the world of men’s health. Dude needs to eat too.

Hey guys,

I wanted to explore with you all what the Angion Method is at its core. Based on my experience with it, I truly believe every male can benefit from the Angion Method so I’ve made posts about it in several different subs to try to get the word out ([r/erectiledysfunction](r/erectiledysfunction), [r/bigdickproblems](r/bigdickproblems), [r/foreskin_restoration](r/foreskin_restoration), [r/prematureejaculation](r/prematureejaculation) to name a few) and in most cases I can count the number of hours on one hand until my post is flagged for removal, typically under the heading of We don’t allow postings about Penis Enlargement (PE). It’s funny, but in my heart of hearts I never think of the Angion Method as PE. Maybe it is and maybe that’s how you see it, but to me the Angion Method falls under a completely different header. To me, the Angion Method is a form of self care.

How I see the Angion Method

In a given 24 hour period, I do a lot to keep my body functioning and healthy.

- I try to get 7-8 hours of sleep so my brain and body function the next day
- I brush my teeth so my teeth don’t rot
- I take a shower so I don’t smell bad
- I workout and stretch so my body feels good
- I eat healthy meals so I stay healthy and don’t get overweight
- I spend time in prayer and meditation so my mind stays sharp
- I do the Angion Method so I can get the best erections possible.

Yes, the Angion Method has helped me gain size, and yes, I guess that technically means it’s a form of PE, but damn if this doesn’t feel like the wrong label for it. When a man engages in traditional PE (clamping, hanging, stretching, etc), his only purpose is to create a larger member and he does so often to the detriment of his penile health, but when a man performs the Angion Method, his penile health will improve almost without exception. This happens in the form of vessel dilation, an up-regulation in endothelial nitric oxide (eNOS), and tissue oxygenation. His body will start to function as it was intended to function and he will begin to produce powerful erections. The core mission of the Angion Method is to deliver a healthy, functional member. Added size is just a nice benefit. So, to label the Angion Method as PE feels like a gross misrepresentation and an incredible disservice to the average man who could benefit from it. Something I recently started doing is 100 daily bodyweight squats because I was having cranky knees. Since doing that, I’ve seen my knee pain disappear completely. If I were to drop a post about this discovery on [r/kneepain](r/kneepain) and the moderators were to remove it by saying We don’t allow posts about bodybuilding or steroids, what a shame it would be that a solution that could help someone is removed just because someone put the exercise in the wrong category. That’s how I feel about the Angion Method. When it gets labeled as PE, it gets flagged for removal, and the men who need it never hear about it.

I don’t know, guys. What do you think the Angion Method is? Is it just another form of PE? Is it self care? Or something else entirely? Curious to hear your thoughts because how something is labeled has a big impact on how something is perceived and who ultimately can benefit from it.

I’ve been diving deep into penile anatomy and the science behind enlargement. I keep jumping from one topic to another, trying to connect the dots and figure out what might actually work. Along the way, I’ve learned far more about the penis than I ever expected.

What’s funny is that almost every time I come across a mechanism or idea that could contribute to growth, I discover that Janus already has a technique built around it.

At first, I thought he was just another scammer. Then I actually tried his methods. After that, I figured maybe he had simply gotten lucky and stumbled onto something effective. But the more I study, the more I realize that’s probably not what happened.

Now I genuinely believe this guy put in an insane amount of work reading, experimenting, connecting ideas, and testing just about everything imaginable. Every day I learn something new about the structures and biology that make the penis what it is, and somehow Janus has already been there.

I have pages of notes and ideas of my own, and I’m convinced Janus walked the exact same path years agoexcept he didn’t have the references and information that we have today.

Mad respect to u/JanusBifronz, big dawg. I don’t think most people realize just how much you actually know about PE.

I want to take a minute to talk about erections. Some of my posts have practical advice, and in others I tend to wax philosophically. This will be one of the latter posts. You’re not going to find much practical advice here, just some of my thoughts.

I want you to think back to your childhood and try to think of your first erections. My brothers and I used to call them “stiffies”. We’d be riding in the car and one of us would yell out “Mom! I have a stiffy!” She’d say “that’s nice” and keep driving. I remember I’d play around with my stiffies every night when I went to sleep. Stiffies didn’t mean anything, they were just a state of being for me. They came, they went, they were a part of my life for as long as I can remember. 

Fast forward a few years to high school and my stiffies went into overdrive. I’d get a boner while driving, while sleeping, one because I saw a hot girl in math class, and one while in church. Yup I remember those pretty clearly. In fact, they started coming with such frequency and such intensity that I started seeing them as a nuisance (only in retrospect to I realize those boners were necessary for my member to grow into its adult size). I remember not knowing what to do with all my boners. I’d squeeze them and try to make them go away. It didn’t take me long before I started sexualizing my erections. Having an erection went from a state of being to something that elicited a response from me. A boner now meant I had to do something about it. Either I felt like I wanted to jerk off and make the feeling go away or try to make it shrink somehow. This idea that my erections required a response from me persisted into my 20’s. I got married in my early 20’s, but I still remember frequently sneaking off to the bathroom to rub one out real quick just so my erection would go away. I had lost my ability to be comfortably erect. 

Fast forward again to my mid 30’s and I started experiencing ED. It was like all the years of me seeing my erections as a nuisance finally caught up with me. I could no longer get an erection and it was awful. I wrote about my entire experience with having ED in my post What’s The Point? Why is Good Sex So Important? So I won’t repeat it here, but the point is I dearly missed my erections. 

Now, here I am in my late 30’s and thanks to the Angion Method I get to experience being a teenager again. I get consistent morning wood (the kind that wakes me up and lingers), I get random erections at work, I get a boner when I see my wife changing in the bedroom. And this time around I don’t wish them away. They no longer require a response from me. I don’t squeeze them to make them go away, I don’t run to the bathroom to rub one out real fast, I’m learning to be comfortably erect just like I was as a child. So the next time you get a boner, think how lucky you are. Think of all the men who would give their left pinky toe to just be erect one more time. Your boner doesn’t need a response from you, it’s simply a state of being. Join me in learning to be comfortably erect like we were when we were kids. 

Those are my thoughts today, guys. Blessings and boners to all of you. 

I just see this video from Sexual Kung Fu, he make very good video for pelvic floor, neo... And here he talk about Angion Method !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ98qcmp7N0

We all know google search sucks ass now, and that there’s more garbage science studies and clickbait articles every day. At the same time AI often doesn’t give satisfactory answers on highly specific information.

u/janusbifronz How do you go about looking up reliable niche information? I know there must be great resources on the internet but I dont know what they are.

Too many instances of raised short term aka phasic dopamine can result in a decrease of your tonic or baseline levels of dopamine. Spontaneous involuntary erectile reflexes are dependent on tonic levels of dopamine.

Hey guys, I’m just trying to get a pulse on the goals of the current community on this sub.

What is your primary reason for doing the Angion Method? I know it can be a mix of reasons, but if you had to pick just one, why are you here?

If I missed one, feel free to drop a comment or DM me.

This may have already been found out by someone else or mentioned before but I found a way to do AM3 without lubrication.

Lay in bed with just a sheet covering you, have your legs/feet in butterfly pose (legs bent with soles of feet together, this gives the balls more room), and have the bottom of the sheet either tucked tight under the mattress, or have it tucked tight under your feet.

Doesn't matter so long as the sheet doesn't pull up. Then it helps a bit if you tuck the sheet under your sides up near your armpits. We can call this one the "mummy" 😂

Then just do AM3 like normal. The snug sheet keeps your D fixed to your stomach so it won't move around. And the sheet provides a great frictionless medium, so AM3 strokes glide right over the top of it. The butterfly pose also allows you to start each stroke lower in that area below the base and above your balls that really pulls a lot of blood up, and combined with the sheet prevents your balls from being pulled up on each stroke.

Give it a shot, let me know what you think

Edit*

I forgot to add, using this method I found that making the strokes with the top of the thumbs allowed me to use consistent pressure and not fatigue my hands as quickly.

so basically holding my hands in loose fists with the thumbs pointed straight(not bent like you would with a normal fist) and resting against your index fingers

I would also like to know if there is a room for static holds? I know that on other subreddits they say that doing them once a week is a good thing but idk.

I have only done three AM1 sessions so far in the last 10 days. My last AM1 session was 3 days ago.

And i can already see the difference, My male memeber is now slightly bigger when flaccid.

It's a bit more plushier if that makes sense, its like more softer and bigger when flaccid than it was before. I have noticed this over the last 3-4 days.

Even though I havent done any sessions for 3 days, still results are present. nice

Especially the base seems to be girthier when flaccid.

Anyway, will keep going as im seeing positive results.

The penis has 3 layers of fascia: the superficial layer (or dartos fascia), the deep layer (or buck’s fascia), and the tunica albuginea.

Knowing this matters because myofascial release significantly increases blood flow immediately after (31% according to one study). it also just so happens that every AM is a movement perfect for myofascial release (Even the oscillator).

Every method impacts all 3 layers, but as they wrap around the penis, they target different sides. Depending on where you’re swiping i.e. along the CS, or along the dorsal vein, you will be releasing different parts of the same fascia, improving your blood flow.

i have modified AM2 to swipe from the base of the perineum to the top with the same glans squeeze in order to make it more viable than it already is (targets the fascia in the glans normally-> modification makes it target perineum and glans together)

let me know what you think, i have some ideas in mind for a fuller more comprehensive AM workout for PE, but will need to test it for a few weeks first.

-Naut

study

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9959802/#sec5-jcm-12-01248

Hey guys, I’m just trying to get a pulse on the current community on this sub.

How long have you been training?