Depends on your program.
Long rest: 1 month every year.
Short rests (1-3 days, or sometimes 1 week), dependent on your tissue and your program/intensity and how much recovery it needs.
As @squirt_inducer_man said, it's all based on your routine and recovery needs. My longest was 6 months without maintenance stretches or jelq, and the shortest was one day. I'm currently talking a 3 days break right now because i went a bit too intense into my routine. I may even have to take a five days break depending on how fast the glans skin heals. Very common. However, taking breaks doesn't mean you don't do passive works.
For passive works, I do wear a loose fitting cut of a penis sleeve near the base. This helps to maintain a partial erection all day at 50 to 70 percents, but still allowing blood to continually cycles in. I also wear a loose sleeve over the entire length of my penis to keep it lengthen to prevent any turtling. However, the reason for it is the autoimmune responses the body kicks in when the penis remains at constant elongated, even though the proper response for the penis to do is to conserve energy and protect itself from possible traumas. This is the trick in keeping the penis at a constant force healing stages.
For passive works, I do wear a loose fitting cut of a penis sleeve near the base. This helps to maintain a partial erection all day at 50 to 70 percents, but still allowing blood to continually cycles in. I also wear a loose sleeve over the entire length of my penis to keep it lengthen to prevent any turtling. However, the reason for it is the autoimmune responses the body kicks in when the penis remains at constant elongated, even though the proper response for the penis to do is to conserve energy and protect itself from possible traumas. This is the trick in keeping the penis at a constant force healing stages.
I believe this was one key for my fast gains.
No problem!
TWIST&PULL
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Depends on your reasons.
Having just had a forced 2 week decon break after 4 months) I didn’t want or need! I feel it’s slowed my progress though at the same time it didn’t do me any harm.
bemorethanbig
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Not sure what everyone else here thinks, My last decon I did half as much water pumping as normal and that is the only thing I did during decon. Some schools say don't do anything, for me I did half the water pump routine for EQ. For me a good decon time was 9 months into a routine, my dick was asking for it, I could tell it was exhausted but happy to be on team bigger dick.
Are you off decon now?
bemorethanbig
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I'm off Decon now, thanks for asking I took off two month, no loss, and the D felt good
Excellent news