Hitting a plateau in PE

[legato]

First of all, I didn't use the "Search" function on the forum, so if anyone else has posted on this, my apoligies (and bite me!). Also I have a feeling this thread is gonna be moved, but this is the only really active part of this forum so I'm posting it here.

Anyways, onwards. Although I've recently started PE, the topic of hitting plateaus really interests me. I was in a biochemistry lecture yesterday where the professor lectured on obesity. Apperently little changes in your nutrition intake each day can lead to a big change down the road. Its like banking interest. For example, if you eat slightly more than the average, this small change can lead to obesity when you hit your 50s and so on. This is why a lot of Americans around that age are plump.

I also read this from a description of a product at bodybuilding.com (highly recommend this site to bodybuilders btw), its for muscle building, but its very interesting nonetheless:

In every pak, you're blasted with a dizzying array of over 55 key ingredients which are delivered in the right amounts at the right time, every time. Each of the 11 tablets included in each pak has been specifically formulated to deliver the goods. By taking the Animal Pak, you prevent the formation of nutritional gaps.

Why should you care? The greater your training intensity, the faster and larger these gaps grow over time. When this happens you eventually hit a plateau. You stop growing. Maybe you've already hit this wall. To make matters worse, if you take other supplements, these same gaps begin to render those expensive supplements useless.

Suppose you start out gaining at a good rate, then you bottom out and hit a plateau, could that plateau be caused by your nutritional intake? Is it possible that your cells aren't able to repair and expand as well as they did when you began PE due to lack of various nutritions?

Or it could be nothing related to this at all, lol. Interesting to think about though.

[remek]

legato,

No worries -- we won't harp on you about the search here (at least yet! ), and this is the right forum.

About your post: I think your addressing two things here:
1- Plateaus
2- The affect of nutrition on PE (and plateaus)

It's very well known that most PEers hit a plateau sooner or later, but this can usually be combated by following a good sense of progressive overload and/or taking extended breaks.

I don't necessarily think a plateau can be caused by bad nutrition (or lack of good nutrition). But it is possible that certain supplements can help us grow quicker and better (and maybe even avoid plateaus). But no one knows for sure just yet.

Protein, Vitamin C, and drugs that provide good blood flow to the penis have all been contemplated in the past as good PE supplements. Some men find they help, others don't.

[Dustpan]

Originally Posted by remek

legato,

No worries -- we won't harp on you about the search here (at least yet! ), and this is the right forum.

About your post: I think your addressing two things here:
1- Plateaus
2- The affect of nutrition on PE (and plateaus)

It's very well known that most PEers hit a plateau sooner or later, but this can usually be combated by following a good sense of progressive overload and/or taking extended breaks.

I don't necessarily think a plateau can be caused by bad nutrition (or lack of good nutrition). But it is possible that certain supplements can help us grow quicker and better (and maybe even avoid plateaus). But no one knows for sure just yet.

Protein, Vitamin C, and drugs that provide good blood flow to the penis have all been contemplated in the past as good PE supplements. Some men find they help, others don't.

I got to thinking about a plateau in my PEing routine and I think that I did hit a plateau about September of this year. I was trying push myself more then I should have because of the up coming surgery in October and it didn't work, so between the surgery and the following month after, I was on a decon break . Now in the last month that I have got back into my routine I started to gain back what I had lost plus I gained .250" more on my EL. I have never relied on supplement to help with gains only hard physical exercises, dedication, patients

So what I am trying to say is, even though you may hit your plateau, go on a decon break for a month on two. Then start back up on a revised routine.

[remek]

Dust,

Good to hear that you gained an additional .25 inches already.

On a side note, I often see some guys advising to "push through a plateau"--usually by uping the intensity a lot.

Although this might help a little, I don't advise it. I believe there comes a time when the risk becomes greater than the reward. And uping the intensity by a lot can often cause an injury.

This--on top of the fact that breaks are refreshing for growth and often the mind--is why I recommend deconing when a plateau occurs.