Titanflex,
Even after doing the fold, I still didn’t have any gains.
I think that there are times when you reach a plateau due to insufficient stress being placed on your dick (as with you Titanflex), but I think that there are times when short of having a black and blue dick, the only viable option is a break.
As I am PEing by stealth (my wife doesn’t know), and I had already increased the stress to the point where telltale signs of PE were beginning to emerge (red spots, lots of red spots!), I had no other option than a layoff.
In the end it suited me very well. I was disillusioned with my lack of gains and I had a lot of other things on my mind at the time and I found that the break allowed me to stop worrying about my dick for a while, sort out my other issues and then continue.
I STRONGLY believe that Wad’s theory on deconditioning is correct.It is simply not possible to simply keep increasing the stress in order to keep gains coming. I really is a case of diminishing returns.
By allowing some deconditioning to take place, this then permits you to gain using much less stress then would be otherwise possible. Its kind of pointless if you need to use so much stress on your member that it looks like a war zone and turns off your significant other!
The other benefit of the break is that it allows you get into a positive frame of mind again. If you have been stuck on a plateau for a while, you tend to become disheartened (as I did) and the break gives you time to forget about the fact that you have not gained and allows you to “think like a newbie”. All eager and positive, and that can only be good.
Try the break. I think that you will be pleasantly surprised.