Originally Posted by Dann123
What I want to know is what exactly causes the collagen to toughen up?
Collagen is an adaptive tissue. You put a strain on it, it adapts to cope with that level of resistance.
If you go running, the cartilage in your joints that is subject to compression forces becomes more dense to cope. If you bench press, your pectoral tendons increase in their ability to handle tensile load. If you clamp, your tunica gets tougher to be able to stand the increased pressure.
If you have exhausted all the gains you can get from regular consistent jelqing to the point where you require sustained higher pressures, clamping is good. If you start clamping before you have exhausted all other gains, the tunica will become so pressure resistant in its adaptive process that you will struggle to get any gains without ‘extreme’ pressures and time. And the tissues have a ‘memory’ so even if you take an extended deconditioning break, the collagen in your penis will still toughen up again quickly when you re-start PE.
Successful long term PE is about doing the very least you can get away with doing, but most guys ‘want results now’ and screw up their long term gains by doing too much, too hard, too early.
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