What's the Longest You've Clamped?

I really don’t think that sets beyond 5-10 minutes are necessary to make whatever gains you’re likely to make through clamping.

I agree. If you really want to gain more girth then add more sets. Just remain within the same time range.

If you’re into cock pumping, you can pump after your clamping session. It seems to do really well for me.

Thanks NT. Thankfully I heal fast. I’ve banned myself from skiing and riding motorbikes - every time I ski I end up in hospital, and if I was still riding bikes, I’d be dead by now. It’s just my character; I push everything to the limit, then just a little further because the adrenaline rush only really kicks in when I no longer feel fully in control. Adrenaline was always my drug. But my testosterone levels are dropping as I get older, and a couple of years ago I was watching one of the boxers I was working with, and for the first time ever, I didn’t want to be back in the ring myself. So the dropping test levels are maybe a good thing! Plus getting older I now have a sense of my own mortality.
So to answer the question “Why would anyone do that”, I guess it’s just habit to see where the safe boundaries are, then to see what happens when they are pushed. I will grow up eventually! :)

Do squats! It ups testosterone levels. :)

I love squats! Sadly my back doesn’t like them so much these days!

Then strengthen your lower back with Super Man exercises. And your upper back by eating crab legs. That is a workout. :)

Or you can always sit indian style and hold your arms straight up in the air for 5 minutes. It works your upper back. :)

I’ve clamped for 20-25 mins with no issue. I am using a velcro home made clamp though which can be much more forgiving than hard plastic or metal which is what some guys are using.

And yes, clamping is very much addictive, especially if you’re looking at BBW/Huge breast porn (drool)

I’ve done 25 minutes, dick ended up pretty purple and I was pretty scared

I have done numerous 60 minute sessions clamping. Its not a typical clamping session. Clamp is applied very lightly very very little constriction , no discoloration , no coldness , its almost like edging , just enough to keep it hard. I did this 30 days straight in January of 2013 . This is when i noticed i started having night wood before i went to sleep that i had not had in years and completely forgot that night wood even existed and right to this day when night wood starts to faid i will start these sessions back up when i have privacy. Most range from 30 to 60 minutes. I think it has helped with some girth increase not alot this method.

I forget you can clamp too hard. I couldn’t do 60 minute sessions. I would get pissy. :(

One of the problems here is confusing degrees of “clamping.” Reducing blood flow is a continuum, at least up to a point. It varies from perhaps a light hand hold at the base or loose wrap up to tightening a rigid metal hose clamp to force the most pressure into an already fully engorged penis, completely shutting off all blood flow.

Going back to the older PE forum days and terminology, we had wrapping (search for “wrapping for girth”), which was a mild constriction to reduce blood outflow. Adjusted correctly, you’d get a plump, filled, but flaccid penis. Later, but before most of the lower pressure exercises now generally called “clamping” were mentioned, came Bib’s Extreme Uli’s. These were truly extreme, as in they built a huge amount of pressure within the shaft by shutting everything down.

Later came various ways of “clamping,” most of which I suspect is in between these extremes. “Clamping” without qualifications really means nothing in itself, as the methods can vary so much.

What is the most time I’ve spent with all blood flow shut down completely to my penis, meaning by tightening a hose clamp on top of a leather wrap to provide the last bit of pressure in the shaft? 12ish minutes, and that was really pushing it. 6-8 minutes on those kinds of sets would have been a better max.

What is the most time I’ve spent with milder constriction before adjusting or taking a break? Many hours.

For what it’s worth, extreme Ulis never produced good size results for me, and I got bad skin discoloration from them. I wouldn’t do that again, nor do I recommend them. I’m probably lucky I didn’t get hurt.

For what it’s worth, the problems I’ve had with thrombosed veins came from longer periods of mild constriction.

That was very useful hobby. It’s easy to forget that folk have different ideas about what clamping means to them.

Long periods of mild constriction cause clogged lymph vessels for me (the string of pearls feeling in a vessel) so I avoid them.

Firegoat, in rereading this thread I caught your post about your injuries from PE. Ouch. So, you know exactly what I mean.

Years ago I tried to force out PE gains by doing some rather extreme things, and at least for me, that approach didn’t produce results. EU’s didn’t explode my penis (though at times I worried something might blow out). Luckily, high pressure didn’t rupture anything.

My most damaging and detrimental problem came from going easy. It was long periods of very mild constriction that initially caused my vein issue (a thrombosis in a particular spot) that became a real problem later for PEing, including hanging. Sorry to say, but once a vein has clotted it’s likely to do the same even easier again with less provocation. At least that’s what I found. That kind of injury (to the vein walls, I presume) can persist for many years, perhaps indefinitely.

Good clarification from hobby. I hope that people reading this thread realize that you really can’t spend very long with *total* blood flow shutdown if you want your dick to survive. By “clamping,” I was thinking of the fairly extreme shutdown exercises — at the least, a plastic clamp tightened over a 100% erect penis, pushing it to 110% throughout the time under clamp. Like hobby, I think it’s wise to keep such an exercise to a max of 6 or 8 minutes.

10 minutes most. It’s not painful, so much as the sight of that gnarly purple beast scares me