Value of taking breaks

I remember some members of this forum stressing the importance of long breaks (over 3 months) when you hit a plateau. I have re-started PE after taking a 2-3 month break. I was very busy during the time and hit a plateau, but if I had the time, I would most likely have taken no breaks.

After PEing again for about a month, I finally re-measured my penis. I’ve gained around 0.25 inches in girth as compared to before my break, and have lost around 0.1-0.25 inches in length. My current routine now primarily consists of bundled stretches along with a few length stretches but with an emphasis on girth.

Before I took my break, I had already began doing bundled stretches but did not have the same level of progress as I have in girth.

Right now I measure around 4.25ish girth and 5.75ish BPEL and my goal is 7X5. Because my penis is so skinny, I don’t mind the loss of a little length for significant girth gains. However, the net gain of my penis with girth-length is not much. I wonder if I had not taken such a long break, my penis would have been bigger.

When body builders hit muscle plateaus, they normally change their routine or they take a week break. But they will never take several months off of the gym. When it comes to building lean muscle, most people and myself included, find that gains come in cycles. After several months of hard lifting I may not even gain strength nor mass, but would unexpectedly start getting really fast gains for about a month. This cycle seems to repeat without fail, and I suspect that the penis may work in this way too.

Really, my very circuitous questions are this: How important are long breaks? Is it better to continue PE even after you have hit a significant plateau? Or perhaps it is better to take a short break and change routines much like the bodybuilders?

I personally bashed on plateaued for months until I started hanging, and even then I didn’t gain much, until I started heating as I hanged and within a few week measure an extra 1/8” inch.

We are all different and PE is tough to calibrate, so you have to just keep trying different things.

The collagenous tissue of your penis reacts very differently to muscle. First thing to do if you are plateauing is to change exercises. When that doesn’t work, taking a break is the best way to get gains going again. It needs to be long enough to lose quite a bit of the tissue strength. Some strength is lost quite quickly, but comes back very fast when you re-start, so a longer break is necessary.

The length will come back easily after a week of stretching.

Just a spontaneous idea how to speed up recovery in a break: why not systematically have 1 or 2 5-10mins per day simply heat applied to the dick. Without any other PE related activity, just heat to soften up the tissue.

I know Firegoat will love the idea, he is the evangelist of heat in PE. But that’s normal as goats in general love heat, and a Firegoat is probably born on Guy Fawkes day… ;-)

I’m not 100% sure it would help that much, but I am 100% sure it couldn’t do any harm, and would probably help get some nice hang going. :)

Luckily I’m generally a cold weather goat; it rarely gets warm here. But I’ve lived on the equator without aircon. Goats are hardy creatures. :D

FG

me too, 4 years in Cameroon. And I love hear, just the job and family keep me in central Europe.

I think everyone is different. I was working my dick so hard for about 1.75 months that I pretty much lost the ability to keep an erection for PE. I took a month off, started up again on a reduced intensity routine which I am slowly ramping up, and it seems to be working for me. The conditioning I acquired previously is helping my penis to better resist the rigors of PE.

oh look firegoat, your abbreviated alias matches a PE jargon!