week off,good idea!?

[shadow1]

i was surfing last night on some medical sites just looking for general info on tissue healing and time it takes, a couple of sites suggest that striaded muscle wich is the muscle in your arms,legs etc. needs 48 hours to completely heal and smooth muscle, wich is what your veins and arteries use to move blood , needs anywhere from a week to a month to heal depending on the severity of the pull,tear or what have you. to me it seems like a good idea to take a week off each month for total healing purposes and possibly better gains when returning to your routine. it will probably take a couple of months to tell if it works but it also works as a mental break from the total commitment put in to it every week. what do you guys think?

[falcon]

Deconditioning is one thing. Healing is another.

You want your dick to heal in an extended state. If you work it hard then stop the healing start asap. your dick will heal in a retracted state. I don't think we want that to happen.
That's why 3 on and 1 off is best. The day off is to help reduce the fatigue, not heal as healing takes place all the time.

Every so often you need to take an extended break to decodition your dick. After months and months of PE your dick has become a very fit, solid member not wanting to stretch or be stressed enough to create gains.
If you take an extended break,.it allows your dick to de-tune and become more plyable so gains can continue once you start PE again.

Falcon

[wohoo19m]

Falcon's right. After a while, your dick gets accustomed to the pressue. So taking a week off could help in adding variation. I'll be doing this also starting next week for 2 weeks. Last time I did this I noticed gains almost imediatly.

[Smoky]

I have been doin research on other forums similar to this one, though I prefere this one by far, and I found that the infamous DLD does PE every day. No breaks... now I don't know if he ever takes some time off or not, but that seems a bit excessive to me. I think my friend would die, but who knows. He started at 6.5 and is at 10.5 now! Of course, I am sure he has been at it for a LONG time. I don't know much about this guy or his forum.

I guess everyone's body works differently.

[turtle]

Smoky
DLD has been at it for at least four or five years. His site is one of the oldest on the net. He not only does PE every day, he spends far more time than i would on PE. That's cool, PE is his thing, I have any number of other things that occasionally complicate my life. Of course, I am not remotely interested in getting to 10.5 inches. DLD is pretty cool, we list one of his exercises here, but he didn't have a problem with that as long as we identified it as his exercise. His forum can be rather annoying. It has over 40,000 members and DLD is not remotely concerned with any form of control or censorship. Accordingly, the majority of the posts are a complete waste of time, and quite often negative and insulting. Exactly what we don't want on Mens Network! Still though, there are occasionally good things said over there, I just wouldn't advise reading over there until your experienced enough to distinguish the good from the bad.

Sorry for the aside about DLD, the point of this thread was about taking a break. I don't think it gave me any kind of spurt in growth, but the last two Christmas Vacations I basically toook three weeks off to enjoy the holidays. Whatever effect it had on my growth, I don't care, because it had a good effect on my head. I think that you need to occasionally take a break just to maintain your motivation. I think that an annual strategy of a three week break at Christmas and a two week break for the summer family vacation is an excellent way to keep your head straight. Again I think the long run consistency is more important, so anything that keeps your motivation on track is a positive.
turtle

[shadow1]

thanks for the input , i think i'll take a week off this month and then every three months after just to get a break so as not to make pe a blah part of my life :cool:

[Momo]

I have noticed most of the time I have gained slightly after taking several days off. But that said, I don't think you should just do PE once, and then come back 5 days later. I usually do an intense session, then a not-so-intense session the next day, then, if I feel I'm up to it, another intense session on the 3rd day - then take at least 48 hrs off. That is the most extreme routine, I will EVER do. But usually, I do a not-so-intense on the 1st day, then a more intense workout on the second, than take at least 48 hrs off, and get back into it when my body tells me it's ready to work out. Or, I have an intense workout, wait 48 hrs, then another, etc. All in all, I do PE about 4 times a week, averaged. Sometimes it's as much as 6, sometimes as little as 2. Basically, my body tells me when, and what intensity. But yeah, every now and then, take several days off. Maybe like 3-5 days off in a row, at least once a month

I guess you guys are starting to see why I don't give advice on routines. :p Very hard to follow. The only thing that is consistent, is the fact that I'm always on the program. Just keep mixing it up, and see what works. That's what I do. Works OK, I guess. But chances are, out of any given week, I'm doing PE at least several (3 or 4) times. Week in, and week out.

Rest is important though. I probably should rest more. Problem is, I LIKE doing PE, so I tend to 'hate' the off days. :D

[Vine]

Just to clarify guys...
When you're talking about these "breaks," they're not complete breaks in the sense that you don't PE at all, right?

You would still do 'toilet stretches' and perhaps some light jelqing and PC flexes---especially during more extended breaks (i.e. 1 week+)...at least enough to maintain the gains you've already achieved.

Does anyone just outright stop for weeks at a time, or is what I said pretty much correct?

Also, do you guys do this 'light' maintenance work on all off days...even when just one off-day is stuck between workout days (i.e. the 1 off day of a 3 on, 1 off schedule)?

I mainly ask because I'm still a bit unclear on all of this---I have a hunch that I should be doing 'maintenance' work on any given rest day, but I don't really know how much to do so I end up not doing any at all. :o

I'd appreciate some clarification. Thanks.
Big Vine

[turtle]

When I said that I take three weeks off at Christmas time that is usually a complete break. The only possible thing that I would do is PC flexes. My two week break for family vacation in the summer usually includes a few sessions of toilet stretches, but that's about it.
turtle

[Vine]

Good to know...thanks turtle.

How about the rest of you guys?

Big Vine

[shadow1]

pc flexes here ,anything else and i wouldn't feel like it was a break

[Momo]

I've gotten in the habbit of doing the 'long schlong' exercises (just about 12 quick reps, for a total of 10 sets or so, pulling in different directions), while in the shower, (only takes a minute or two - tops), and also at other times when I'm just sitting around watching TV, or on the computer, etc. It's almost subconscious. Just like Al Bundy would sit on the couch, and rest his hand in his pants... I, on the other hand, start naturally doing some stretches. Just for a minute or two. Nothing serious. Just to give it a reminder: "Hey, you're supposed to be LONG... remember?" It then responds: "Oh yeah, sorry... Ok, how's this?" ... "That's fine for now. Don't let me have to tell you again".

j/k No, but seriously, one PE workout a day, or every other day, is not enough to really get the stretching done, when you become more advanced. You need to be almost constantly tugging on that thing, saying: "Aarg!! Get longer! Aarg!!"

-and sure enough, it will!

The thing is though, if when you're doing one of these random little stretching deals, if you feel any soreness, go real easy. Maybe just leave it alone. Soreness means your tissues are behind the power curve, and are just trying to catch up, to being healthy... much less actually make gains. You should never feel pain. And even with soreness, it should be real mild, and typically only be following one of your more intense workouts... not something you do every time. The idea is not to wear youself out every workout. That's going too far.

Also, I wanted to mention before, that I grow length and girth independently. They're each on their own cycle. A "PE workout" is not just a "PE workout"... no, I take into consideration where one is Vs. the other, always keeping in mind that girth takes (significantly) longer to recover, and is much more 'expensive' -so to speak- to achieve. I have no doubt in my mind I can get to 9. Possibly 10 and beyond in the next 2+ years. But girth... is the big mystery. You just have to go on instinct, and not over-do it.

[Grudge]

So shadow1, has your week breaks payed off for you. Like do you have a jolt of increase or are you just rising the same as normally? Or mayb you need more time to determine if it is working or wat.......... hit me back

[shadow1]

I definitely think it's working, after the first few days I sit around wondering what I'm going to do. For me the break works for the mind as well as body, taking a break releases the "stress" of trying to get a bigger dick and gives the little guy a much earned break as well. I find after the first two days my morning wood is rock hard and measures an 1/8th of an inch bigger, also won't go down for about 30 mins after I wake. All in all it's working very well for me ,actually thinking of taking a month off when I reach a year of pe.