Braker, great to hear that you are getting it! It’s a very powerful exercise that you shouldn’t be without if you’re looking for girth..
When you bend it, you should feel a great internal expansion feeling all through your tool, not just the point of bending.
(But I also think it is best to bend at several different points in several different directions, jsut incase you’re encouraging a severe curve in the long term)
Usually you don’t have to “straighten” it - when you let go it should pretty much go totally limp, that is, if the blood pressure didnt decrease while holding it, as it does for me :( I try to keep it bent for as long as I can before the blood pressure decreases to the point where Im not getting a good enough stretch anymore (Because my grip is probably less than ideal) but this is no more than 30 seconds I guess…
I guess it’d be difficult to do more than 50 of these in a single sitting - and if you did that many, you’d be pretty screwed up lemme tell ya!
About the week long break - I think it did wonders not only for my physical regeneration but also for my physcological angle on the whole PE bizz. I am seeing it less as something that I have to do, and more of something that I will just *do* and get there over time :) I also think my first workout after the break was really intense and gave me a real good worked out feeling :D