Beginner & advanced protocols · 18+

You bought the pump. Nobody sent the numbers.

The box had a cylinder, a gauge and a one-page leaflet. Not the pressure to work at. Not the minutes. Not the limit you shouldn't cross. So you guess — and there's nobody to ask whether you guessed right.

This one is written down. Every set, every number.

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250 mmHg is the ceiling clinical guidance gives for vacuum devices. Go past it and you risk burst capillaries and bruising that takes weeks to settle.

SCIRE Project, Mechanical Methods: Vacuum Devices and Penile Rings — "the maximum vacuum pressure should not exceed 250 mmHg." Medical devices typically operate at 100–225 mmHg.

Every Beginner pressure sits under it. The Advanced sets go above it, and say by how much. You decide knowing where you are.

Warning: there's nobody to ask

No coach for this. Nobody at the gym. So it becomes forum threads at midnight, ten men with ten different answers, and not one of them will say what pressure he actually used.

And the advice that does circulate has three holes in it.

No units. One number, no gauge unit. kPa, mmHg and inHg differ by more than seven times. You can't tell which one is meant.

No step size. "Climb gradually." By how much? Nobody says. When they do, the units contradict each other.

No ceiling. The limit never comes up. So there's no way to know you've crossed it.

Every pressure here is in all three units. The steps are tabulated. The ceiling is stated, and every set is placed against it.

That's the product. Not a secret — a protocol you can follow without guessing what the numbers mean.

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What's in it

  1. The safety envelope, first

    Contraindications, the equipment you actually need (gauge and quick-release valve — both non-negotiable), and the stop-immediately signals.

  2. The climb rule

    Why you never jump to a target pressure, and the step table in kPa, mmHg and inHg — including the unit conversion that most routines online get wrong by a factor of three.

  3. Warm-up structure

    Two sets, exact pressures and durations, and why the off-pump interval between them isn't optional.

  4. Beginner protocol

    Warm-up plus three working sets, all at 28 kPa — every pressure well under the published safety ceiling.

  5. Advanced protocol

    The higher-pressure sets, with the ceiling they exceed stated in plain numbers so the trade-off is yours to make knowingly — not one you discover afterwards.

  6. Troubleshooting

    Edema, sharp pain, discolouration, next-day soreness — what each one means and exactly what to change.

  7. Frequency and recovery

    Session spacing for each tier, and why skipping recovery lets edema build up and stall progress rather than faster results.

What this is not

It isn't medical advice, and I'm not a clinician. It's a structured application of published research, written for adults who would rather read the limitations than be handed a promise.

There are no before-and-after photos, no size claims, and nothing here described as a cure. Those are marketing, and in this category they are frequently illegal.

It also isn't fast. The protocol is built in four-week blocks with deload weeks in them, and it tells you to measure at four-week intervals for a reason. If you want something that works by Friday, this isn't it.

And we're not attaching a clinical trial to it. Vacuum devices are FDA cleared — Class II, not "approved" — with established clinical use for erectile dysfunction and post-prostatectomy rehabilitation. This particular multi-set protocol has not been through a trial, and nobody selling you one has either. What's documented here is structure and a safety envelope. Not an outcome.

Beginner

$27

Warm-up + beginner protocol, safety section, climb tables, troubleshooting. Every pressure under the published ceiling.

Get the Beginner protocol

Read it for 30 days. If the numbers aren't worth it, email us and we'll refund you — and you keep the file. We'd rather you had it than argued about it.

Digital download, delivered instantly. Yours to keep.

Please read the "who should not buy this" section above before purchasing.

Questions

How long before I notice anything?

Weeks one and two are about locating and isolating the muscle — most men feel nothing then, and that's normal. Endurance changes tend to show around weeks three to four. The trial cited above measured its outcomes at six months.

Do I need any equipment?

No. Everything in the program is bodyweight and can be done seated, standing, or lying down, without anyone knowing you're doing it.

What equipment do I need?

A pump with a gauge and a quick-release valve. Both are non-negotiable. Without a gauge you are working blind on the one variable that determines safety; without instant release you cannot stop a problem when you notice it.

Who should not buy this?

Anyone taking blood thinners, or with sickle cell disease or trait, a bleeding or clotting disorder, Peyronie's disease, penile curvature, or existing pain. Also anyone whose symptoms came on suddenly, involve pain, or who is under 40 — see a doctor first. This is sold as a digital download and is final sale, so read this list before you buy rather than after.

See a doctor, not a program, if:

  • It came on suddenly rather than gradually
  • There's pain, numbness, or curvature
  • You're under 40
  • Morning erections stopped entirely and abruptly
  • You have diabetes, heart disease, or take blood pressure medication

Erectile function depends on vascular health, and a change can be one of the earliest signals of cardiovascular disease — sometimes years ahead of anything else. That's not a reason to panic. It's a good reason to get checked, because the thing worth catching early is your heart.