Rest Day Paranoia

I just read Newbie’s entire thread and something comes to mind…

Are any of you like me in that you’re almost “afraid” to take a day off from PE? I get antsy if I don’t jelq every day and I only take off on weekends. Anyone else suffer from this?

Just how long does a dick really take to fully recover? A day? Two days? A week? I jelq for an average of a half hour 5 days in a row each week. Sometimes I’ll go for much longer. Ten minutes doesn’t seem like enough time to permenantly expand the tissue of the penis. Ten minutes is like a warm up to me… I always lose track of the time while jelqing… I’ll look up at the clock and be like, “Oh shit! It’s been almost an hour?!”

I feel like if I take a day off I’m losing precious time that I could be using to get bigger. And no, I wouldn’t do bench presses every day and expect my chest to just keep growing, but the dick isn’t a muscle, so now what?

I’ve gotten results doing things my way, but I can’t help but think I could be gaining more if I rested more. Maybe I’ll try it out for a month. This past month I’ve been training pretty heavily… maybe for a few weeks I’ll try that day on day off schedule and see how it works… but you see, that’s the schedule I had when I first started and I found that by kicking it up a little, that’s when I noticed my gains…. now I’m confused. Ugh.

What say you?

I feel the same way man!!! Ive actually been taking extra rest days the last month because my tool is fatiqued by my workouts.And i always think to myself “damn it might have been ready to grow if i jelqued yesterday!!”or something along those lines.It helps to remember that your tool DOES need to rest and not resting can hamper results.

Me, too!
But now I am on an extended break and have got used to it.
I suppose it’s like when you first start and have to push yourself real hard, now you have to drag yourself away from it.

As to that whole issue of “damn it might have been ready to grow if i jelqued yesterday!!”, well I would aliken this to the effect of gambling’s “If I put one more buck in I am sure I win big this time” syndrome IMO.

Me too -
I could see where this could become complusive.

“…if I take a day off I’m losing precious time that I could be using to get bigger.”
My sentiments exactly, like I'll rest tomorrow, then tomorrow comes - and guess what…

I have found this to be a very big part of the study I am working on with B.D.D./O.C.D. and it’s own unique place in the PE world. I hope to get the thread up soon.

I’m also becoming way too compulsive about PE. I’ve been at it for just a month, but during the last two weeks, I think I’ve only rested 1 or 2 days.

I started with a 2 days on and 1 day off routine and got a good 1/2” bpel initial gain. But, as the month progressed, I felt like I’d lose my new length if I didn’t keep at it daily.

Thanks to the advice on the importance of healing breaks, I think I’ll rest up until Monday now.

I am not so sure you need to worry that much about rest days. I do see how periods of rest can be beneficial during injuries but I have never taken a day off..EVER..with the exception of injury. I think that each person should see what works best for him. If I don’t PE I am lost for that day, it completes me *psycho music inserted here*

Damn it, DLD!!! Now you’re just making my decision much more difficult!! :head:

Just Joking! I know it’s still way to early in my PE endevour to know whats going to be the optimum workout for my johnson. (I think I’ll go jelq now ………. )

OK, I just found out that I’m gonna have a lot more privacy tonight and tomorrow than what I expected.

My rest break will have to wait till Sunday now!! :blue:

Thats the spirit!

DLD, you may be a “superPEman” but in my opinion and going from my own experience and what others have said, REST days are paramount to PE gains by giving adequate “heal time”.

BUT, having said that I have only tried my PE’ing with the rest days and when I think about it it really doesn’t make all that much sense to “tear up the tissue” for 5 days and expect 2 days to make it all better again so you are ready for 5 more days of battering.

Most of the pay PE sites tell you to take rest days also.

That is why I said: “I think that each person should see what works best for him.”

You are taking what I said out of context, and in NO WAY do I think I am any type of “super-anything”

How long have you been doing PE?

Just curious.

18 months…

I just thought of this… but you know how you get a nice pump after PEing, right? well maybe the next time you should be PEing is when the pump goes completly away.

sometimes my pump can take up to 2 days to go away, so maybe even 1 day on and 2 off could prove very efficent???

because once the penis recovers from the pump and goes back to normal, hit it again, anyone try like a 2 or even 3 day off and one on routine?