Have you hit a PLATEAU?

Reason for Poll: With all this talk about IPR, plateaus, deconditioning breaks, penis muscle, and less really is more, I’m curious to see how many guys have hit a plateau in their PE career.

Poll Requirement: You must have PEed for at least six months.
This could be six months in a row, or six months total (in which you PEed on and off, but have at least six months of total PE experience).

Definition of Plateau (for the purposes of this poll):
you gained no more than .1 inches (2.54 mm) in a one month period.

Example of plateau: Under this definition, you could have gained one inch every month for five months, but gained only .1 inches for the six month; and the six month would be considered a plateau.

It appears I can never create an effective poll the first time… So if a moderation reads this in time, please add the word “not” in option two (between “have” and “experienced”).

Being election day I was going to ask if you were a politician until I read you’re second post.

Now I realize you you just been hit with so much political advertising that you’re automatically starting to talk and
sound like a politician. You’ll be okay in a few day. Lots of rest and drink water.

Why yes I think I have hit a major plateau. I’ve hit them before and then bounced out of it unexpectedly with a significant gain, but this current plateau has been going on to long. My personal thinking is that over condition is what leads to hitting a plateau.
Letting things rest up and then shocking it back awake is what seems to have worked for me in the past.

I just can’t seem to leave it alone that long….

Done.

Thank you peforeal :)

You could be right! I do live, afterall, in the great state of Florida — where our recently elected Governor spent over 40 million dollars on his campaign (and I swear to you he spent every dime on my County).

RC,

It would appear you’re not alone; the results of this poll have a bigger landslide than the Arnold Schwarzenegger race. Currently:
14 people have hit a plateau
None have not
1 person just wanted to vote

I gained about 1.25” in eight months…at least that is what my ruler says. However, I have gained virtually nothing since June/July of 2006. I have taken two decon break since then and started an IPR-based routine on October 16th only to find that I can not seem to gain.

Admittedly, the IPR routine I am on is new to me and I have not given it a full 9 week cycle. However, the 3-week I-Phase is now behind me and I did not notice anything.

I am now thinking that my secondary PE theories about supplementation and high-dosages of vitamin C, and whey protein may have actually hindered my growth by strengthening the connective tissue too much.

I am now off all supplements and vitamins until Christmas to see if I can isolate their effects on my PE efforts.

Remek, you are just the guy I would like to talk about this to. What are your thoughts about vitamins and the possibility of collagen manipulation?

I experienced a plateau in the beginning of this year as summer was coming around. I had hit my goals for the earlier part of the year but I had stopped working out around April and that included P.E. I finally started again sometime in July, I believe. I’ve also been hearing about these deconditioning breaks but I hadn’t heard about them back then I had simply stopped P.E.ing because I had other things to worry about.

One day in July I started exercising in the mornings again and I decided to get back into P.E. so I started of making sure I could handle what I used to do building back up in about a weeks time ( I don’t recommend doing this). Afterwards I slowly began more advanced length and girth exercises which showed me how unprepared I really was; so I spent another 2 weeks to get ready for those. It was early August when I got the hang of Horse440s which I think broke my plateau.

I would like to learn more about IPR since I haven’t tried reading up on it. Time to search for more knowledge.

goon, I haven’t read your IPR routine — I’ll have to look into it. Admitedly, I just came off my IPR-type routine and gained a bit — not a lot, but enough to know that I gained. I’ll be posting the results soon.

About collagen manipulation and supplements — I can’t say I know enough about the effect of certain supplements and how it effects collage, particularly collagen in our penises, to give an adequate theory… However, I will say that I personally believe whey protein and vitamin C — in moderate doses — help in one way or another. How much vitamin C and whey protein were you taking?

Yep, I hit a plateau a few months ago. Since the gains where not coming back, I decided to take a month of reconditioning (October) and just recently restarted PE.

I hit my first plateau about 3 months into my PE career. After that, I started to hang religiously. I did that for 6 months with no measurable gains. Then I took some time off, resumed manual exercises (Mem’s momentous routine), and added in some hanging with moderate weight (10-15#) using the Wenchette. When good erections came back, I saw that I had picked up another 1/4”, which over time nudged closer to 3/8 or maybe even 1/2”.

That was about 6 month ago, and my 1/2” gain is back down to about 3/8. I’m aggressively back into PE now, and hoping to see some progress soon.

My newbie gains came relatively easy. My inititial hanging gains were semi-easy. I plateaued in length over a year ago. Added a little girth since then. Now I am hanging with a vengeance. My erection quality keeps improving. My wife keeps saying “You are huge”. She feels tighter. It may be that my EL during lovemaking is better than I can measure. So I have been measuring my clamped length and that has begun to edge up slightly.

Well according to your definition my whole P.E careers has been a plateau. Thank God for giving me drive.

I haven’t taken enough dc breaks to know. I have been pe’ing for years, but very very off and on. Just as I would notice anything, I would enhance and lose it all, become discouraged, and quit. Then I would see me little dick for months wishing I knew what to do, and I would start over but end up doing the same thing.

I stumbled on Thunders and tried again, got a little growth and instantly plateaued. This time I kept going, trying different things, for 7 months, and nothing. Took a 3 1/2 week break and started again. I got another 1/4” spurt and was so excited I kept adding things to my routine. Well I instantly plateaued and even lost a little of the gain.

I am now 4 days in my new break, and plan on it lasting 2-3 weeks. Then starting again and see if I get another spurt. If I do, I will atleast know what makes me grow. But since I’ve only payed attention to this last break, I can’t say for sure if it was what worked. But I do know to keep it lighter and a bit more simple now.

One inch per month? no one does that…