@Resni I started restoring very young, which may have helped. I was 11 when I started, right after I found out what circumcision was online. Before that I thought that the pain and other issues I was having were normal.
I was also very consistent with my tugging. I used cross taping, and I wore it almost 24/7. I would reapply it every morning, afternoon, and night. I was 13 when I got full flaccid coverage, then I took a break for around 5 years. I'm 22 now, and I'm working on erect coverage using other methods.

@theonefreeman oh yeah my mind went to someone else where I heard that they started restoring in their mid teens and they got really fast progress like that too, seems like it's only possible to progress that fast if you do it before your body stops growing. guess it was a really good thing you started that early.

@Resni Yeah, I haven't talked with anyone who started quite as early as I did, but someone I talked with who started when he was 14 had similar results. Progress has been a lot slower recently. Part of that is because I'm a grower, so erect coverage is a lot harder to get than flaccid coverage was.

@theonefreeman I'm definitely a grower too. consistent flaccid coverage was always my main end goal and if I can just push it over the glans easily when hard then I'd be happy stopping there. tho who knows how I'll feel later. tbh thinking about any end goals toooo much just makes it feel pointless to do it it's so slow, and I've been getting back into it because I'm realizing even if I never get good coverage, every little bit of progress is so worth it on its own

@Resni Full flaccid coverage was my initial goal, which is why I stopped then. I wonder how much more progress I could have made if I had continued then.
Sometimes progress can seem slow, but if you keep tugging consistently you will get there eventually. I know someone who started restoring in his 60s, it turned out great for him.

@theonefreeman yeah totally. I don't think I'm too old or anything, I don't think younger adults vs older adults have much different progress. I used to be in an online community about it where there were tons of older people getting good progress

actually age is a big reason I'm starting back up, cause for like 5 years I have been too hard on myself to do too much each day that I could barely do it and couldn't get any consistency..... but a few months ago I decided...

@theonefreeman ...to try just doing a tiny bit of tugging each day and I saw some progress, and then more recently I have been feeling really strongly like: "fuck, if I had just been doing the absolute bare minimum in the last 5 years then I'd have way way more skin" and so that's been giving me the motivation to keep at it and not be hard on myself or let my own brain stop me by telling me that if I don't do a ton every day then it's not good enough