Originally Posted by Big Girtha
I think pumping is a great tool to use with other exercises. For me a gentle pump session after hanging or clamping seems to even out fluid build up distributing a smoother girth over the entire shaft. Pumping may also be at least partially responsible for my girth gains, I can’t be sure because I do a lot of other stuff, everything actually, but I began with pumping. We never forget our first lover. However, because pumping is very pleasurable, akin to masturbation, and because the visual effect it plays on the mind seeing the tube filed with your penis, makes it very easy to over do pumping I think more than any other routine. So one should use caution in the tube.
Again, Big Girtha has good advice for you and others. Actually, pumping is what I like to do most because, once you put the cylinder on your dick and pump most of the air out, all you have to do is to wait until it’s time to take it off … so you can go about your business and do lots of other things you can’t do as well if you are jelqing, stretching, or hanging (in most cases).
Some guys from the early days of PE don’t believe that pumping has any permanent effects on enlarging your dick, but I’m not sure about this. I started my own self-discovered PE many years ago consisting solely of jelqing and pumping (with a home-made cylinder/bottle and only mouth suction). After a couple of years, I had gained nearly an inch in length and more than a quarter-inch in girth, and then I quit jelqing and did only pumping, almost every day, for 20 years. I didn’t lose any of my initial gains and perhaps gained a little in each dimension over the years. Then in late 2003 I discovered Thunder’s place, and now I’m gaining more with better jelqing, stretching, and hanging .. but I still pump.