Old timer here.

**Pumpingpete** · 07-13-2015

Hi,
I've been pumping on and off, mostly on for 33 years, which is just under half my age, just so you have an idea.
I started out in Malibu, California with the Joel Kaplan educational pamphlets, no internet or You Tube back then. So I progressed slowly to magazines like PumpItUp and found out that I was not alone in my pursuit of enlargement.
My size progression was much slower than my ambitious self wanted it to be. So I fell into the trap of pumping much too pressure too fast. The result being a very sore penis (cock) with small warts forming on the head, which were rather unsightly.
So I eased off and went to a wonderful Jack Off club in Sepulveda around 1987. This was a turning point for me. There I met Eric who had been successfully pumping into 2 stage cylinders maxing out at 8" diameter. A long way to go for little me, but something to aspire to. Eric took me "under his wing" and with his mentoring, I slowly built up from 2 to 6 hour pumps going from 3x9 to 4 1/2x12 over a two year period.
I purchased my first computer in 1992 and started emailing pump friends all over the world, chiefly in Germany. Uncle Vanya as I called him, was a bear of a man, with the biggest cock I had ever seen. Swinging well below his knees and fat as my thigh. His balls were the size large grapefruits and. as I was heavily into cock bondage, we had another aspect instantly in common. We are still in touch although his body is starting to let him down, he still pumps with the vigour of a man half his age.
I have recently taken a 2 year hiatus from regular pumping, but am back on the 'treadmill' now. It IS addictive, no matter what others tell you and I am very happy to be back on regular long term (4-8 hour) pumps.
Keep it up,
Pumpinpete

**Dangler** · 07-13-2015

Awesome ! Have you any goals ? Anything you want to accomplish here at the PEGym ?

We have a Pumping Group, see the link in my signature.

**closed224** · 07-13-2015

Welcome PumpingPete. Congratulations. I have several Kaplan pumps myself. Keep it up, and enjoy.

**Zeds** · 07-13-2015

4-8 hours of pumping!? You're not meant to do more than 20 mins a day!

I see pumping as more of a way of stretching out the penis and as a way of supplementing growth from manual exercises. I don't think its mean to be used for growth. Surely all you'd end up with from that much pumping for years is a puffy cock that has terrible EQ because all it is is swollen up tissue(?) and no new lean mass has been created.

**closed224** · 07-13-2015

You can get real growth with pumping. Also you can build up to some pretty extreme time with practice. Build slowly, and especially using water in my air pump has worked well for extended pumping. With just air lower pressures have worked better.

**Pumpingpete** · 07-13-2015

Hi Zeds,

Thank you for your advice. After so many years doing what I enjoy and getting fantastic results, I get slightly annoyed when someone like yourself has the audacity to tell me what happens when I do things my way.
Why don't you sit and ponder your thoughts, before you commit them in written form!

**Zeds** · 07-13-2015

You're wrong Pumpingpete and clearly lying.

Just kidding haha I meant no offence with my previous comment. I myself pump every other day and it helps but I just don't see how it can add lean mass. However I haven't done a lot of reading into it. Just grabbed it as a supplemental device.

Also I read of guy who pumped loads (like yourself) and his penis pretty much turned into a cylinder just like a penis pump. No definitive glans or the like. Stuff like that puts me off.