How I Gained 3 Inches, Plateaued, & Recently Started Gaining Again

First, the obligatory warning to not try anything that you aren’t conditioned for. I’ve now been doing PE for 14 years, so newbies obviously shouldn’t jump into my current routine.

Starting length: ~ 6” BPFSL (Mid ’06)
Current length: ~ 9.35” BPFSL
I haven’t done an erect measurement recently, but I passed the 2” gain point years ago. My BPFSL gain has been much greater than my erect gain though.

History
Mid ‘06 - Mid ‘09 During this time the FastSize (noose) extender is pretty much the only thing that I used. I bought a jelq device after about 2 years, but rarely used it and don’t attribute any gains to it. I gained a little more than 1 inch during these 3 years, which doesn’t seem like much, but I was usually only using the extender once a week for 45 min - 1 hour. This was an extreme, max tension stretch where I couldn’t stretch any further, and would shoot for 1 hour, but occasionally stopped early due to intensity. I also took 3 separate month-long breaks during this time, not intentionally, but because of vacations. After these month-long layoffs, I wouldn’t be able to stretch as far as before and would have to take bars off. It seems odd to me now that I went for 3 years only training once or occasionally twice a week.

In mid 2009 I started to take PE seriously and began training on a daily basis. I bought a Bib Hanger, then a Bib Hardcore a month or two later, moved up fast in weight, and I did quickly stretched out my ligaments, but somehow didn’t measure much of a gain. The way I know that my ligaments stretched is because before the Bib, my erection pointed straight out and I couldn’t really press it down very much. After just a few weeks of BTC hanging, my erection was still straight out, but I could easily point it straight down.

I then started a manual stretch & jelq routine (MOS Phase 1) that lasted 6 weeks. I gained fast at first (.25-.5”) in the first few weeks, but nothing for the last couple weeks. I tried the LengthMaster for a couple months, but the way it’s designed creates a lot of pressure in the glans no matter how you wrap.

Mid Jan. 2010 - I started only hanging for the next 9-10 weeks. I increased the number of sets, then the amount of weight (all BTC) the way Bib suggested. The first week or two I used the LengthMaster hanging attachment because you don’t get the twisting problems like the Bib, but it placed pressure on the nerves behind the glans, and I lost about 95% of the feeling in the glans for a few days. I switched to Bib Hardcore for the rest of the time, but stopped after the 9-10 weeks because I didn’t gain anything, and Bib’s only advice was to try to move the weight while hanging.

Late March 2010 - I decided to try the FastSize again, but this time was using it every day for 2-3 hours. A few months later a got a BathMate Hercules and began using it daily, but it was often times very painful for me. It caused a nausea-type pain not in the balls, but in the internal plumbing that’s connected to the balls. I would pull down on my sac while getting into BM, but couldn’t avoid the pain. I was also filling the Hercules, so I tried the Goliath, but that was way too big to get a seal, and it would have been painful as well.

I also used static wraps for a while, which they don’t make anymore, but they were good ADS wraps that I think helped me gain some flaccid length.

The history above is something that I wrote back in 2010, otherwise I never would have remembered everything that I did. From 2010 to 2019, I don’t have detailed records, but I did add some additional size using a lot of different methods. Nothing I did during this time resulted in fast gains, but I was able to slowly gain here and there. A lot of these routines/devices were the same as I outlined above. I did also try the Penimaster Pro, but I didn’t really like it. I tried some clamping. I used the LG Hanger for a while, which was really comfortable up until the 15+ lb range, but I didn’t seem to gain much with it. I did do some air pumping, but that was very sporadic until last year, and it’s one of the things that has got me gaining again. I switched to the X4 extender at some point, and I’ve developed a way of wearing it that I’m convinced is the best possible method, so I’ll outline that at the end of this post.

This all adds up to getting to the point where I had gained 2”+ in erect length and around 3” in BPFSL, but I plateaued and couldn’t gain no matter what.

Now, what I did to start gaining again. This is the reason why I’m posting: I wish someone had suggested this type of routine when I looked through the forums over the last few years. Whenever I would search for posts about breaking plateaus, it was always guys that had gained way less than me, so I figured it couldn’t really apply to me. If some guy writes that he gained .25” then plateaued, but started gaining again, that’s not going to do anything for me because it’s a lot easier to gain when your total gains aren’t that much. I would need something that was intense and also something that I hadn’t tried before because gains with my previous methods were tapped out.

In addition to doing a lot of biology research, I also looked at the problem like an engineer would. Thinking of a scenario where you’re trying to stretch a Chinese finger trap, and you keep pulling outwards. It’s not a perfect analogy because the body has the ability to increase the number of cells and grow, but I hypothesized that inflating a long balloon inside of the finger trap, which would weaken the fibers in a different way, could then allow additional outward stretching.

Having never consistently done an air pumping routine, I started trying this around mid-2019. I would warm-up, do some bundled A fulcrum stretches, do a little more warming up, wear the X4 for an hour, then do the pumping an hour or so after finishing with the extender. I tried doing this every day, but quickly saw that it was too much, so I went to extending every day, but only pumping every other day. I did this routine for about 10 months, slowly increasing the time/pressure that I was pumping at. I was doing about 5 hg for 3x 10-min sets at first, then I switched to 4 sets at some point. I would add a few extra seconds each day, and keep doing that until I would have a day or two where the pressure was no longer able to get me as fully erect as I had been able to get before. When that would happen, I would increase the pressure and decrease the time, then each session I would slowly add time back. Right now I’m at 8.5 hg for 4 sets of 8 min 30 sec, but I add a few seconds every day. I expect the same thing to happen, which is that 8.5 hg will eventually not feel like enough, so I’ll go up to 8.75 hg and take the time down a little. I recently changed my pumping schedule to 1 on, 2 off, which has greatly improved my EQ. I still use the extender every day for at least 70 min in the straight up position, and a little extra time on the days that I don’t pump.

I was stuck at the same length with the extender for years, but once I started pumping, I was able to start turning the adjustment bars more, then add length to the bars, and I’ve now added on an extra .25” in flaccid stretched length. It seems like my idea about stretching and weakening the tissues in a different way (expanding outward with pumping) has allowed me to induce growth lengthwise.

There seems to be two schools of thought in PE: some guys focus on length and want to only do girth work after they reach their length gains, and other guys work both length and girth at the same time. I was definitely a length-only type of guy for many years, but it’s pumping that now has me gaining in the extender.

Hopefully others can take what I have done through years of testing different methods and benefit in some way. I’ll leave you with my X4 modification and attachment technique.

X4 Modification
-Drill a small hole through the headpiece (as shown in attached pic).
-Punch holes in the comfort strap so that they line up with the holes in the headpiece when fully tightened. I do this with a device that’s made for punching holes in leather, and making a perfectly round circle increases the length of time that you’ll be able to use the strap. A straight cut would cause tearing pretty quickly. I had originally tried using two small nails at first (one on each side), then I switched to one large nail that goes through both ends of the strap.

X4 Attachment
I use the wide girth base. It might be possible to do my setup without the wide base, but it would be more difficult and you’d need to have the base on while stimulating.

1. Use electric heating pad for 10 mins as a warm-up.
2. Put on memory foam comfort pad.
3. Put cable clamp at base and stimulate to full erection. Hold the top of the comfort pad & pull back skin to avoid being bunched up.
4. Put on the head attachment with a comfort strap & tighten. (I usually pull back the skin again)
5. Put a large nail through the strap to keep it from slipping at high tension. I got this idea from a forum, but the guy used twist ties instead, but a nail goes through easier and doesn’t bend.
6. Let erection subside, trapping blood in the glans, but being soft throughout the shaft.
7. Put the x4 girth base over the head attachment. (This cannot be done with traditional bases)
8. Insert the elongation bars into the head attachment, compress the base springs, and screw the bars into the bars that are attached to the base.
9. I use a silicone pad in between by skin and the base to prevent any pain there. If wearing upwards, silicone pad needs to be on top of the base, but other positions require a pad on the bottom to avoid scrotal pain.

Welcome back.
Congratulations on your success and thank you for sharing.
A 3 1/3” increase in BPSFL is one of the best results I have seen.

QUOTE=Baba_Booey]
First, the obligatory warning to not try anything that you aren’t conditioned for. I’ve now been doing PE for 14 years, so newbies obviously shouldn’t jump into my current routine.

Starting length: ~ 6” BPFSL (Mid ’06)
Current length: ~ 9.35” BPFSL
I haven’t done an erect measurement recently, but I passed the 2” gain point years ago. My BPFSL gain has been much greater than my erect gain though.

History
Mid ‘06 - Mid ‘09 During this time the FastSize (noose) extender is pretty much the only thing that I used. I bought a jelq device after about 2 years, but rarely used it and don’t attribute any gains to it. I gained a little more than 1 inch during these 3 years, which doesn’t seem like much, but I was usually only using the extender once a week for 45 min - 1 hour. This was an extreme, max tension stretch where I couldn’t stretch any further, and would shoot for 1 hour, but occasionally stopped early due to intensity. I also took 3 separate month-long breaks during this time, not intentionally, but because of vacations. After these month-long layoffs, I wouldn’t be able to stretch as far as before and would have to take bars off. It seems odd to me now that I went for 3 years only training once or occasionally twice a week.

In mid 2009 I started to take PE seriously and began training on a daily basis. I bought a Bib Hanger, then a Bib Hardcore a month or two later, moved up fast in weight, and I did quickly stretched out my ligaments, but somehow didn’t measure much of a gain. The way I know that my ligaments stretched is because before the Bib, my erection pointed straight out and I couldn’t really press it down very much. After just a few weeks of BTC hanging, my erection was still straight out, but I could easily point it straight down.

I then started a manual stretch & jelq routine (MOS Phase 1) that lasted 6 weeks. I gained fast at first (.25-.5”) in the first few weeks, but nothing for the last couple weeks. I tried the LengthMaster for a couple months, but the way it’s designed creates a lot of pressure in the glans no matter how you wrap.

Mid Jan. 2010 - I started only hanging for the next 9-10 weeks. I increased the number of sets, then the amount of weight (all BTC) the way Bib suggested. The first week or two I used the LengthMaster hanging attachment because you don’t get the twisting problems like the Bib, but it placed pressure on the nerves behind the glans, and I lost about 95% of the feeling in the glans for a few days. I switched to Bib Hardcore for the rest of the time, but stopped after the 9-10 weeks because I didn’t gain anything, and Bib’s only advice was to try to move the weight while hanging.

Late March 2010 - I decided to try the FastSize again, but this time was using it every day for 2-3 hours. A few months later a got a BathMate Hercules and began using it daily, but it was often times very painful for me. It caused a nausea-type pain not in the balls, but in the internal plumbing that’s connected to the balls. I would pull down on my sac while getting into BM, but couldn’t avoid the pain. I was also filling the Hercules, so I tried the Goliath, but that was way too big to get a seal, and it would have been painful as well.

I also used static wraps for a while, which they don’t make anymore, but they were good ADS wraps that I think helped me gain some flaccid length.

The history above is something that I wrote back in 2010, otherwise I never would have remembered everything that I did. From 2010 to 2019, I don’t have detailed records, but I did add some additional size using a lot of different methods. Nothing I did during this time resulted in fast gains, but I was able to slowly gain here and there. A lot of these routines/devices were the same as I outlined above. I did also try the Penimaster Pro, but I didn’t really like it. I tried some clamping. I used the LG Hanger for a while, which was really comfortable up until the 15+ lb range, but I didn’t seem to gain much with it. I did do some air pumping, but that was very sporadic until last year, and it’s one of the things that has got me gaining again. I switched to the X4 extender at some point, and I’ve developed a way of wearing it that I’m convinced is the best possible method, so I’ll outline that at the end of this post.

This all adds up to getting to the point where I had gained 2”+ in erect length and around 3” in BPFSL, but I plateaued and couldn’t gain no matter what.

Now, what I did to start gaining again. This is the reason why I’m posting: I wish someone had suggested this type of routine when I looked through the forums over the last few years. Whenever I would search for posts about breaking plateaus, it was always guys that had gained way less than me, so I figured it couldn’t really apply to me. If some guy writes that he gained .25” then plateaued, but started gaining again, that’s not going to do anything for me because it’s a lot easier to gain when your total gains aren’t that much. I would need something that was intense and also something that I hadn’t tried before because gains with my previous methods were tapped out.

In addition to doing a lot of biology research, I also looked at the problem like an engineer would. Thinking of a scenario where you’re trying to stretch a Chinese finger trap, and you keep pulling outwards. It’s not a perfect analogy because the body has the ability to increase the number of cells and grow, but I hypothesized that inflating a long balloon inside of the finger trap, which would weaken the fibers in a different way, could then allow additional outward stretching.

Having never consistently done an air pumping routine, I started trying this around mid-2019. I would warm-up, do some bundled A fulcrum stretches, do a little more warming up, wear the X4 for an hour, then do the pumping an hour or so after finishing with the extender. I tried doing this every day, but quickly saw that it was too much, so I went to extending every day, but only pumping every other day. I did this routine for about 10 months, slowly increasing the time/pressure that I was pumping at. I was doing about 5 hg for 3x 10-min sets at first, then I switched to 4 sets at some point. I would add a few extra seconds each day, and keep doing that until I would have a day or two where the pressure was no longer able to get me as fully erect as I had been able to get before. When that would happen, I would increase the pressure and decrease the time, then each session I would slowly add time back. Right now I’m at 8.5 hg for 4 sets of 8 min 30 sec, but I add a few seconds every day. I expect the same thing to happen, which is that 8.5 hg will eventually not feel like enough, so I’ll go up to 8.75 hg and take the time down a little. I recently changed my pumping schedule to 1 on, 2 off, which has greatly improved my EQ. I still use the extender every day for at least 70 min in the straight up position, and a little extra time on the days that I don’t pump.

I was stuck at the same length with the extender for years, but once I started pumping, I was able to start turning the adjustment bars more, then add length to the bars, and I’ve now added on an extra .25” in flaccid stretched length. It seems like my idea about stretching and weakening the tissues in a different way (expanding outward with pumping) has allowed me to induce growth lengthwise.

There seems to be two schools of thought in PE: some guys focus on length and want to only do girth work after they reach their length gains, and other guys work both length and girth at the same time. I was definitely a length-only type of guy for many years, but it’s pumping that now has me gaining in the extender.

Hopefully others can take what I have done through years of testing different methods and benefit in some way. I’ll leave you with my X4 modification and attachment technique.

X4 Modification
-Drill a small hole through the headpiece (as shown in attached pic).
-Punch holes in the comfort strap so that they line up with the holes in the headpiece when fully tightened. I do this with a device that’s made for punching holes in leather, and making a perfectly round circle increases the length of time that you’ll be able to use the strap. A straight cut would cause tearing pretty quickly. I had originally tried using two small nails at first (one on each side), then I switched to one large nail that goes through both ends of the strap.

X4 Attachment
I use the wide girth base. It might be possible to do my setup without the wide base, but it would be more difficult and you’d need to have the base on while stimulating.

1. Use electric heating pad for 10 mins as a warm-up.
2. Put on memory foam comfort pad.
3. Put cable clamp at base and stimulate to full erection. Hold the top of the comfort pad & pull back skin to avoid being bunched up.
4. Put on the head attachment with a comfort strap & tighten. (I usually pull back the skin again)
5. Put a large nail through the strap to keep it from slipping at high tension. I got this idea from a forum, but the guy used twist ties instead, but a nail goes through easier and doesn’t bend.
6. Let erection subside, trapping blood in the glans, but being soft throughout the shaft.
7. Put the x4 girth base over the head attachment. (This cannot be done with traditional bases)
8. Insert the elongation bars into the head attachment, compress the base springs, and screw the bars into the bars that are attached to the base.
9. I use a silicone pad in between by skin and the base to prevent any pain there. If wearing upwards, silicone pad needs to be on top of the base, but other positions require a pad on the bottom to avoid scrotal pain.
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Some things that I remembered and wanted to add:
-When I wear the extender each day, it’s in the upright position, then every 5 minutes, I position it outwards and turn the adjustment rods a set number of times before going back to the straight up position. This allows me to continually stretch further during the set, and I reach a length that I wouldn’t have been able stretch to at the beginning of the session.
-My daily manual stretching routine before the extender isn’t much, but it’s 6 sets of bundled A fulcrum stretches (3 twisted right and 3 twisted left). I kegel during these, so it is: Twist right and stretch, kegel for 5 seconds, release for five seconds (x5), and that’s one set of the 6.

Regarding my history, it’s probably important to note that I started when I was 19, so I may have still been growing naturally. I was still growing taller during this time, and I’ve read that guys can grow taller up until age 25, so it’s possible that other parts of their anatomy are still growing too.

Also, I used so many different devices and routines, that it’s impossible to remember everything. One thing that I forgot to mention already is that I tried a number of different hanging angles. Most of my hanging was BTC, but I did do fulcrum hanging (hanging over different sized PVC pipes), and I did some straight up hanging with a pulley on the ceiling. I don’t think I made big gains during this, but a little bit here and there still adds up. Most of my hanging was with either the Bib Hardcore or the LG. For straight angles either one works, but for fulcrum hanging, the Bib is better because the back of the hanger can press into the front of the fulcrum. Normal fulcrum hanging with the LG stretches out the sleeve and doesn’t feel right, although you can use a small fulcrum and position it at the base so that it doesn’t touch the sleeve.

I remember there was also a time where I was doing manual stretching with the Lengthmaster and I seem to remember a quick jump in length, but as I mentioned previously, I wouldn’t use the LM device as a hanger because I went numb doing that (feeling did return after a few days). Similarly, there was a time when I was manually stretching using the Bib Hardcore instead of gripping behind the glans. Both the LM and Bib are good for avoiding grip issues with manual stretching. The other techniques that I’ve found work are using baby powder, weight lifters chalk, or a paper towel in between your hand and penis (which is what I use for my bundled stretching now).

I’m sure I’ll remember more devices and routines that I have done over the 14 years of doing this, but I’ve outlined most of them.

Really inspiring, thanks for sharing !

How nice of you to write all these many things you’ve done. It’s all coming along now, a few more vets like you and we have it all layed out for us step by step. We already do now that I think of it, but it’s still blurry…

Good to know you’ve had such an interest for PE and dedication all this time. Awesome.

“ I recently changed my pumping schedule to 1 on, 2 off, which has greatly improved my EQ. I still use the extender every day for at least 70 min in the straight up position, and a little extra time on the days that I don’t pump.”

Is the above continuing to work for your improving your EQ?

Hi Baba_Booey,

Just wondering which air pump you used.