Let me start again by stating that I like you and am not trying to flame you.
“Penismith the beauty of PE is everyone is unique and different to their own personal response to different stimuli. I make posts based on my own personal gains and experience.”
Yes, everyone is different to some degree. Some are more similar to others. It is all genetics and environment. You may respond to stimuli to which the vast majority of other PEers will not respond. IOW you may be on an extreme end of a bell curve. Your experience may not translate into a similar effect for other individuals, which I suspect to be true for DLD bends.
“You state the you have a hard time imagining a lot of guys getting results from these when people like growingup, ledzep, goingdeeper, regularwhiteguy and others including myself have made incredible gains using these methods.”
Like yourself, all very intelligent and pleasant individuals. You state “these methods.” In this tread I am discussing DLD bends exclusively although I do question the effectiveness of some of the other exercises as well. I have a hard time believing DLD bends will work for many if anyone. I suspect you and they have gained from something else, possibly one of your other techniques. I think we should examine all techniques in this way. I think a problem has developed concerning your techniques. Everyone likes you a lot and is possibly afraid of aggravating your OCD by questioning your techniques. Of course, if I am right, this is very bad for Free PE.
“Yes these exercises are controversial and may not work for everyone but to not report gains based on a program would be wrong especially with so many men looking to make gains.”
Absolutely, that is why I think it important that we hear from those that it may have worked for and those who it may not have worked for. Men are trying to make gains and I think we both agree that it would not make sense for them to do and exercise that does not work, especially one whose safety is debated.
“Speaking for myself It is difficult to separate exactly which girth exercise is directly responsible for my girth gains. I use these bends in addition to jelq, modified horse squeezes and pan squeezes so it would be difficult to give credit to this exercise exclusively. I think the combination is what brought me into the 7” girth area.”
So it is possible that DLD bends are just a dangerous waste of time and the fact that you have gained so much suggests that you are different indeed!
Cheers,
PS