Well, I let my academic curiosity override my practical applied principal. I often times become the victim of my own experimentation!
I was progressing very well with my pumping and was getting fabulous results; then I got curious, as I often do! I took the two weeks off with no PE. I wanted to see if I could return where I left off and stimulate some interesting growth or expansion after the break.
What I discovered is that I cannot return where I left off at all. Perhaps alot of the result is that I’m only a few months into a pumping career and not as conditioned as someone with years of pumping. They could likely take such a short break without the need to back down and progress slowly back into their routine.
I was pumping around 4hg for 30 minutes per day, cycling some vacuum throughout, when I quit. I started back at 4-5hg for 30 minutes and had little if any expansion on day one. My EQ immediately went to total shit. No morning wood, no intermittent wood, when I had sex with the wife I was lucky to muster 70% erection and then it dissipated quickly.
Day two, I went 4hg for 20 minutes. Little to no expansion, EQ still of course crap.
Day three I went 3-4hg for 10 minutes and had some expansion.
What have we learned here boys? Well, I for one learned that pumping takes alot of gradual conditioning (which I knew, but tested anyway), that when breaking early on in ones career, even for a short while, you must back up and graduate back to your former routine (which I knew, but tested anyway) and finally that EQ is quickly and devastatingly destroyed by over doing your pumping routine (which I knew, but tested anyway)!
The biggest thing I learned (that I knew, but tested anyway) is that I wonder about things too much, I’m too willing to be a guinea pig and that I am a hard headed jackass!
I will start back at 3-4hg for 10 minutes for the next week, then progress to 3-4hg for 15 for a week, then 2 x 10, 2 x 15 etc etc etc.