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After years of PE and focussing on what you feel all the time, and knowing how your own penis responds to what you do, you learn exactly what it needs at the time. That is so often influenced by what you did in your last session and how recovered you are, whether you have missed sessions, whether you have discolouration from a previous session, and many other variables etc. They all change whether you feel like a long low vacuum session or short higher vacuums or various combinations etc. are what you need. I use them all - I never know what I’m going to do when I get the pump out.When your penis is absolutely ‘maxed out’ in the tube, the tissues are basically ‘locked up’ as they are designed to be to give rigidity to your erection. They need to spend some time in that state while doing PE in order to stress them, but not too much time as there is little elasticity to work with in that state so the tissues are not getting used to stretching.
If I was going to recommend one routine and ‘working state’ as a starting point for someone who wanted to simplify their pumping:
1) Warm up
2a) Slowly, over a few minutes, increase the vacuum until you reach max expansion, i.e. a vacuum increase is barely causing any further enlargement or lengthening in the tube
2b) then release just enough vac so that you shrink a few millimetres in the tube and keep the vac at that level for 5 minutes.
3) Slowly release the vac. Take the tube off.
4) Do 50 jelqs at whatever strength feels right to you. Follow them with some firegoat rolls until any discolouration has pretty much gone.
5) Get erect. Get back in the tube. Repeat 1, 2 and 2b but stay in the tube for between 15 minutes and an hour depending on how advanced you are/what your routine calls for/feel etc.
gprent mentioned numerous times he started to gain once he switched to one day on one day off, doing 30 mn set around 3-5 hg.