Plateau with penomet, jelqing

I haven’t been able to be 100% consistent over the years with my routine, but in a typical week I’ll get 3 or 4 workouts in, mostly the basic routine and 15 minute or so sessions in the penomet with the light grey gaiter (next to highest pressure, I think.)

At first I thought I was experiencing pretty rapid gains since I was getting longer and longer in the tube, but I think that’s more because I was learning how to really apply pressure correctly and getting used to the feeling of getting erect while pumping. I went from the 7.75 mark to 8.25 very quickly, but now pretty much any session varies from 8 to 8.5 depending on how aroused I am. It’s been the same for 9 months or so, I’d guess.

Any advice? Next highest gaiter? Pump more? Pump less? Although I’m pretty conservative with it, I don’t see how the penomet could really apply any more pressure. At the end of a session the gaiter is completely compressed and there’s really no way to squeeze more water out.

Thanks in advance :)

The thing is, with the penomet, it isn’t about squeezing out more water. It’s about the resistance of the gaiter to compression and how much it will push against you. So, if you use a stronger gaiter you’ll experience greater pull and pressurization of the water around you. as a result.

Plateaus, they can be handled one of two ways. Trying to power through them, with a heavy increase of routine. Or taking a month or two off…then just coming back to it normally when your penis isn’t as prepared. Then you’ll get gains for less work.

Thanks for the reply. Not quite sure I understand the physics of the pump, but it seems to me the compression of the gaiter and the squeezing out of more water over time are two sides of the same coin since water isn’t compressible.

I’m a little reluctant to go cold turkey for a month or two and lose whatever gains I’ve had .. But also don’t see how to really increase the routine without different equipment.

As I said, having used the penomet, stronger gaiters are definitely different. It does more with that exact same volume of water. If you don’t believe me, that is fine. Maybe that doesn’t happen for you, but it certainly happens for me and is why I picked the deluxe set with 4 gaiters and never made it up past the gray one to the red one.

Also, if you’re reluctant to go cold-turkey because you’ll lose your gains…that’s a common method of thinking as well. However, that is typically not the case and what you do lose you gain back with ease. I mean I’ve written tons on the subject of deconditioning, as well as tons on PE for this site. You can read here: thoughtfulgold’s Method Other theories about successful PE from big gainers also revolve around deconditioning breaks, unless you are hanging heavy weights there’s always time to decondition to gain better.

Or, do as you wish. I’m only offering suggestions.

Thanks, I’ll take a look and think more on either a break or the red gaiter.

Wasn’t doubting the input, just noting that I don’t quite understand how it works.

I have been using the penomet for nearly a year now, and have had two month long breaks in that time. It definitely makes a difference.

Both break were kind of accidental, with other things getting in the way but they worked out just as well as I could have liked.

Still gaining in girth way more than length though because I haven’t realy focused on a length routine so much.

I would recommend the break and having a red to come back to.

What was good for me for a while was mixing the two as per instructions, grey, red, grey, or red, grey, red. That was when I was using it in the bath, not I only have a shower and stick to just the red whilst sitting under the shower on a small stool, and doing a routine of pump to max, for about 10 - 20 seconds, pull out, pump up again, pull out etc

five of these, then jelq then 2-3 more sets usually. This sky rockets my girth and flaccid.

I also wear cock rings after to keep maximum expansion.

If you’re an advanced user, you might want to add the X85 Gaiter to your collection, it brings the expansion on more rapidly and is very popular with long-time Penomet users. Do it 5 times a week, and don’t forget to use different gaiters or even 2 different gaiters in one session, it has been proven by our user base to be quite effective.

Wish you all the best and good luck!