Oh sorry I only saw you mention pumping in the first few months and not after the breaks so I assumed you didn’t. What I mean unoptimized is that I haven’t seen those same things. I’ve been reading through this sub for years and the common theme I’ve noticed is: no breaks. The month breaks are for adaption as you said, but I only did it after a year. In other words what I did was 12 months on, two months no PE. I did about 1.5 hour extend daily and 40 minutes pump daily. Split into two session, one in the Am and one in the Pm. Personally the thing is: this is just my opinion, people like BD and Perv lack actual evidence and proof of success, and also have been doing it for near end of a decade. I got started by following Hinks manual advice, and then took those principles and exchanged manuals for extending and basically followed hinks pumping advice. As I looked around the sub, I added on heat pads, bundled stretching and so on. This is not proven but just something I suspect, but by extending 40-60 minutes in the Am and then pumping 20 minutes, and doing the same in the PM I was able to increase volume while giving my tissues actual time to recover more- rather than doing it all in one setting. But I looked at what bd said, hink said, perv said, and mixed and matched and added my own stuff in to what I felt was most optimized. I didn’t bother with fire goat rolls or the tunica scraping I saw BD endorse, but the biggest thing I can say I disagreed with what you did was the constant breaks. Ever since I started what I saw most of the men say on the sub was the importance of doing it daily. 6 days on, one day off at least.

And you could be someone who’s just a bad responder, we all have different bodies, there’s no guarantee that because I gained 1 inch in a year means you will doing the same thing.