I should have updated this ages ago.
For about the last month I’ve switched to only pumping every other day and using my ADS for about 4 hours on the days in between.
Still have 1 or 2 days totally off every week to 10 days as well.
I think water pumping is a lot harder on the tissues than it feels, leaving 48 hours between sessions has made a big difference in the quality of erections during pumping and also in the expansion during and after.
I’m packing further up the tube and the base is getting so tight that I’ve had to cut a few sessions short however I’m resisting the temptation to move up to a larger tube for as long as I can.
I’ve noticed that expansion always starts at the base and slowly creeps up, it’s only since I started packing around halfway up the shaft that the upper shaft has started to really expand.
It seems to work much like blowing up a long skinny balloon, the base bulges out first and then when that reaches it’s limit it starts to move up.
Restricting the base expansion seems to allow it to move forward more effectively whereas when I tried a larger tube all I got was more base expansion and fluid build up.
I guess when pump sellers tell you to get a tube that’s only slightly larger than your max girth they know what they’re talking about !
Not measuring until the new year, gains or no gains it’s all good.
Plan on trying some hanging next year, only thing I haven’t done yet.