Originally Posted by Shaunbaby
Fluid build up.Wondering how this fits into the whole thing. I dropped back from 10 min to 7 min sets to get rid of the fluid build up, which worked to an extent.
So yesterday I have a bit more time after a meeting finished early. So home early.
So instead of 2 x 7 min pump followed by 2 x 7 min clamp I thought with the extra time I would go 3 x 7 min pump and 3 x 7 min clamp.
I got a little extra fluid in pump No. 3 but it was OK. Then the clamping.
I seemed to be getting fluid build up under the head during the first clamp, so on the second clamp I put an old pad and a second clamp below the head to apply some pressure. What happened next was weird. The fluid build up moved down my shaft during the second clamp! I’m 5.25 in girth normally and struggle to get to 5.5 or 5.75 after my routine. Now I find I am heading for 6 inches in the second clamp!
I was tempted to back out but I though I wonder if this will actually translate to gains. So I pressed on to the third set. No pain or any negative indications. Again I applied the second clamp below the head, almost needed the large size clamp! By the end of the third clamp I was a 6.25 inch mid girth. On a side note I take Bill10’s point about going above 6 inches with caution as it is massive.
After the event I did a solid 30min of stroking which I finds pushes the fluid out. Cock Hero video to the rescue.
By the end of 30min I was back to a little over 5.25 and today I am 5.25.
What gives? Seems a disproportionate amount of fluid for an extra 2 sets.
Now, for the question, does sucking fluid into your dick help gains?
How do you stop fluid getting sucked into your dick if it doesn’t help gains?
Thanks in advance
Shaun
Going to preface this with the usual “Not a medical professional” claim.
My thinking on fluid buildup, at least as far as pumping and clamping go, is that the limits of the penis have been reached in volume. You can’t fit more blood into it, but the pressure stimuli continues so fluid builds instead. Originally, you reduced clamping sets to 7 minutes. This reduced strain at one time as you broke the time up and gave your penis time to recover. By adding an additional set of pumping and clamping what you feel is disproportionate is just the built up limit of pressure which you had already mostly reached with your prior sets.
Consider a bucket of water with a small hole in it. If you filled it near the top with water and wait a few minutes the hole would drain and after 10 minutes more water would fit without overflowing. Of course, you may still get closer and closer to the top depending on how fast the water leaks and how much you put in. Your 3rd set probably was still close to the top from your first 2, even with the effect of a break to reduce fluid build up. Once you reach that limit it overflows. If that fluid build up is a concern I would go with 2 of the 7 minute clamps and 3 of the 5 minute clamps. To utilize the time gap to reduce fund buildup. Same with pumping sets. If that is your goal. Put less water in, take more time to let it drain, bucket overflows less.
Though, after a point, and almost any long duration pumper will agree, you will get fluid buildup. This is my own experience. Donut effect is fluid build up under the head due to high pressure pumping usually. But low pressure will build up fluid evenly all across your penis once your time under vacuum builds up enough pressure that more blood will not fit into your penis’s vascular system.
In my opinion, fluid build up does not help your gains. However, to an extent, the level of pressure required to cause fluid buildup does. Fluid buildup goes away. Gains do not. Additionally, donut effect when done repeatedly does change the shape of the penis over time. It’s not the suggested method but it can happen. Pump deformation can become long lasting if done repeatedly. This is why long duration low pressure pumpers stay with low pressure. As the stress on the penis stays uniform. Fluid buildup doesn’t cause gains but where you build fluid is indicative of where pressure is stressing tissue that is now pliable and likely to be deformed into more gains.
Fluid build up can cause issues. As can holding a clamp session too long. Lymph vessels and Thombossed veins are not to be toyed with. But some level of fluid build up is common, especially with pumping and clamping in the same session. That’s a high stress routine. I usually recommend against it but your PIs are good so I can’t judge. Your PIs, they decide this for you. And as long as you don’t aim for and hold fluid buildup too long your injury risk is substantially lower. But if you are trying to do pumping and clamping in the same session and are scaling these sessions up in duration you are bound to see fluid build up.
I personally only see fluid build up twice a week. On clamping day, if I make it 3 sets, I may. I go 7min, 10min, to 10-13 mins for last set. Fluid buildup is mild. On pumping day, if I do my entire pump duration at once and it exceeds 90 minutes I’ll see substantial fluid buildup all throughout the shaft and glans. It vanishes over the next 12 to 18 hours and often increased girth remains for up to another 24 hours after. But I only do that once a week.
I do not think fluid build up is a good gaining method. The causes behind it may be in moderation after conditioning, but drawing that line is difficult.
