Pumping pressure question

When I bought the pump, I didn’t read the manual’s starter program because I was using the newbie pump program from here. However, I just happened to look at the manual and it had 2 interesting suggestions:
One was that for the last couple of minutes of any session you could increase the pressure by 3 Hg.
Second was that for every other session, you could increase the pressure through out the session by 2Hg.
NOTE that these two ideas are NOT cumulative, meaning it was not suggesting that at the end of a session that you’ve already increased by 2Hg that you increase it by 3 more. And of course, it said not to exceed 10 HG in any case.

The only problem with these suggestions was that the manual did not provide a starting pressure amount. So, have any of you had any success with intervalized pressure increases in your pumping sessions? For the most part I’ve been using 4 or 5 Hg for the last few months and while there have been some secondary improvements, there have been no actual erect dimension improvements. In the last few days I’ve increased the pressure to around 7Hg and found it very tolerable so long as proper lubrication was done. Anyone finding that they need higher pressure to gain?

The secret to gaining is not using higher pressure, but using longer pumping times. Using higher pressure will only lead to ruptured cell walls and broken capillaries which will then require time off to heal.

I don’t know how long you pump for now, but try pumping for 30 minutes at only 3 to 4”hg and then increase time from there.

Add to the list of possible results from higher vacuum: discoloration.

Good news is that if you have discoloration, it may resolve, in time, by discontinuing the high vacuum. But it’s probably better not to develop it to begin with.

Quick question, can you walk around while pumping?

Yes you can.

Well, I have been limiting myself to 10 min pumping sessions because I was doing jelqing in the same session on a 3 day on 1 day off. If I bump up pumping times to 30 mins total, could I still do 50 jelqs every 10 mins or would that be too huge of a leap forward? I’ve been doing it long enough I should be nicely acclimated, so as long as no individual aspect is too high pressure or too hard jelqing it should be ok even if the overall session gets quite long in time?

I’ve also been doing pumping in the shower because the water acts as both an excellent seal and lubricant; but if I’m going to pump for that long, I’m going to have to do it outside of the shower and find some other method of lubrication. Shower water also doesn’t stick to the inside of the pump and have to be cleaned, so - what’s a good lubricant that you can buy at the local drug or grocery store that’s easy to clean or better, will evaporate off the tube? I was fortunate in sneaking my pump order in, I’d hate to tempt fate by ordering lubricant, lol, so really need to find something I can buy local.

I have some major discoloration but.I started out like 4 months ago doing only pumping. Then, for a 2-3 week period about 2 months ago I switched to jelqing and stretching only and no pumping, and since then I’ve been doing mostly pumping or hybrid pump/jelqing. I never noticed any discoloration until I was doing the jelqing(and the discoloration pretty much follows the jelq grip area, so that has to be the cause). I’m not too worried about discoloration though, at 4.5 girth if I don’t get some girth gains flowing in discoloration will remain a secondary concern.

Buy KY Jelly, or better yet a generic equivalent water based lube that will be a lot cheaper. Wal Mart has a good one. During use, if the water based lube starts to dry out, just add a little dab of water to rejuvenate it. Clean up is a breeze.

You might want to read the sticky on Avocey8’s pumping for ED. Similar to what you are doing except you do Ulis instead of jelqing between three 15 minute pumping sessions. Should help EQ.

Is it normal for a low pressure like 4Hg to not expand you to your maximum size, or, if it does, for it not to reach that point for like 10 minutes? This is assuming, of course, a completely flaccid begin point.

It might happen if you were using a cylinder with a diameter that was too wide.

Yes lower pressure requires more time, but because it causes less trauma, you get better results.

Another question about this, if you are using 30 minute low pressure sessions, do you need to do anything to increase it some way over time? Curious since pressure increase would obviously not be it, would you literally work up to 30 minute sessions 2 and 3 times a day? I’m talking about increases to the pumping part only, obviously working in jelqs etc is another possibility.

It’s helpful to use an electric heat pad around the pump, in my experience, and neither of these is really possible plugged in. Also, what pump are you using for pressure? Mine is kinda heavy, bulky, and should stay away from water (it’s the harbor freight gauged brake bleeder).

Mine is one of the kaplan hand pumps, the pump/tube/cylinder don’t mind water apparently but the pressure gauge has become stuck on 2.5 hg(when not under pressure, it does go up while pumping) after 2 months of shower use.