Gains while breaking?

Who here has seen their greatest gains while on a break? My last growth spurt (1/4” EL) came while on was on a break from pumping. Anybody ever get something like that?

Yep.

Yes, I have grown on breaks.

I’ve read about it happening a lot, but I havent started to take breaks yet

I have on each break. I never took one willingly. I was always forced to take a break due to lack of privacy from family coming in from out of town or work.

I would get the time to measure and would be sweating bullets thinking I lost gains when I ended up gaining. Even to this day with knowing that I still can’t force myself to take a break.

Yes.

If you could state how long your break was when you gained, and if you remember, how long was the time you PEd before you took that break.

Usually like several days. Sometimes I need a time off, and actually seem to lose size. After taking a few days off and my EQ returns to normal, I see gains. Compared to measurements taken weeks ago.

So are you saying your EQ suffers from PE and is better when you’re not PE’ing?

I’m saying after a while of heavy PE’ing, my EQ would suffer. After taking a break, I see the gains. It’s like short term negative PI’s, but in the long run I get pretty ok results. I guess my days of easy gaining are gone.

Hanging especially lowers my EQ, when done up to 3 hours a day (even when vac hanging, which is more comfortable). Combine that with 30 to 60 mins of pumping (3 to 5 Hg) and there we go. I’m planning on taking it easy, but is pretty difficult to give up hanging and especially pumping. I feel like I wouldn’t get the same gains for half of that time.

Yes, it can be.

But it’s just temporary and as pulacalului said you see gains after taking off several days from PE. Happened to me also.

One to two weeks for me. I would have to say 80% of it is better EQ and the other 20% is from a fully healing. Having ample time to pull off a full recovery.

Does chance of a donut increase after a short break(1 week)?

I took a break for a year and a half, gained one inch.

That must have been on another planet and definitely not here at Thunders.