How Can I Break Pumping Plateau?

Greeting all,

This is my first post here, however I have lurked for a long time. Also, since I have no post history I can’t post in the Pumping threads.

Anyway, I learned about PE from Reddit. I watched, read and learned as much as I could for probably 6 months before I decided to jump in. Seeing the success many pumpers had, I gravitated in that direction. I got a pump and a couple cylinders lapdist. Com in June of 2020.

My starting size was 6”x5”. I grew rapidly in the first several months. By October I was about 7.25”x5.25”. Then everything came to a halt. I haven’t added any size since about October.

My question is, when faced with a plateau in pumping, what have you done to break that plateau and continue to make forward progress. Can you simply continue your routine and still gain, albeit slowly? Or did you have change something?

Thanks in advance

I believe sufficient heat and jelqing might help you in your endeavor.

Are you using constant heat while pumping?

Yes. I have an electric heating pad that I have used since the beginning.

It was actually a lot of your posts Titleist that got me headed in my current direction.

I do (3) 20minute sessions, with an electric heating pad, at roughly 5-7Hg.

Early on, I noticed my length in the cylinder, under the same vacuum was always progressing. It correlated directly with my gains in erect length. Now, and for several months, my length under the same vacuum is stuck.

About a month ago, while looking for a way to break my plateau, I got an idea from something I saw here-a dynamic pumping setup. I found an electric breast pump with several different modes, a Bellababy pump from Amazon. With a simple T-connector in spliced it into the pump. I can reach longer lengths using this setup, but they are at higher vacuums. Net gain=?

Stay the course and don’t add.

Wow, Amazing Gains

Alright! Thanks

When my pumping routine hit a plateau, I added a 45 minute session at 4 hg once a week a continued to gain.

What kind of differences did you see doing such a long single session compared to your normal set

What about a deconditioning break? Many people seem to benefit from that, especially in cases of plateauing.

How long a do conditioning break do folks usually take?

Depends..

I have done 3 months of PE and stopped for 1 month with success.
Or 1 month and stop for 1 week.

I know I know… I post this often and while no-one outright disagrees with me I know most members here do disagree with what Im about to say….but…. more pressure.

Im not saying you need to kick the pressure up to absurd levels and end up hurting yourself in the process but from my personal experiences I can say with out a doubt that over time your member adapts to pressure levels over time. If you have been doing a consistent routine for months long at 5-7hgs you might notice some things.

Such as, feeling less of an internal stretch, less edema, less spotting, less fatigue. Now dont get me wrong NONE of the last three things I listed are things you should be striving for, but my point with mentioning them are this; most newbee pumpers will experience one or all of those side effects at least once, and more likely they will experience them often. Even at low pressures such as 3hgs users can develop any of these side effects if they have only pumped 5 times in their life.

For MOST (not always) people, you might notice that over the course of months or even years that you can do more sessions at longer lengths and even higher pressures (even if its going from 3hgs to 5hgs) with a decreased outcome of any negative side effects. Meaning your member adapts over time. This obvious and distinguished difference between a users 1st session and their 1,000th is why I dont necessarily believe in the hard cap at 5hgs that is echoed all the time.

I understand that telling users to not go over 5hgs is safe and sound advice, especially when we consider new users to pumping. However, in my personal experience ive been able to increase my max pressure level over time with no issue, and in-fact doing so has usually helped me achieve PI’s again once they begin to taper off. Im confident in this because when I pump for months in a row ive been able to move to pressure levels 2x-3x what most consider the limit, with nothing but positive results. However, if I take a break from pumping… such as i am right now, when I start back up, I need to start again at much much lower levels. For me personally its a lot like going to the gym, over time I can get up to X on bench press, but if i take a substantial break I will need to reset at lower weight before slowly moving back up again.

I will never not post my opinion on this for people who are looking for advice, as for me breaking new pressure levels over time has been one of the best ways for me to continue in the right direction for pumping. But I understand that this is somewhat controversial for most pumpers on Thunders. Ill add my disclaimer here if you do decide to increase the pressure level; I am not advising that you jump from 7hgs to 10 or higher, what Im advising is that you slowly (and i mean slowly) move to higher levels. (7.5 -> 8 -> 8.5) Even if that means going a bit higher for only a few minutes during a session. And of course, dont be an idiot and if you feel pain or discomfort outside of what YOU know to be normal STOP.

Heyo, thanks for this. I have been keeping under 5hg consistently since I began and for the last 3 months with a 2” diameter havent seen any gains in length other than post pump. I noticed like you said after some rest period, even a day or 2, I will have spotting, which early on I was worried about and would take rest for 5+ days til they cleared then have to start my sessions again almost from the beginning, not going over -2hg and shorter sessions.

I’ve found just keeping going at a consistent level and slightly upping the pressure/time and not taking such big breaks at every negative side effect ( although for me has only been spotting and some edema build up ) has proved better even with no perm gains so far, I do think the long rest periods have attributed to that.

do you mean 3 sets of 20 minutes in one day, or do you mean 1 set of 20 minutes on 3 different days per week? also did you pump erect or flaccid?