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twitchy · 09-29-2004, 11:35 AM

so I started back at the gym and i lost all kinds of weight and gained plenty of muscles, but now my chest / shoulder / arm area looks like there are sun baked worms all over them

anyone have any tips on how to deal with stretchmarks or is there anything i can do?

WhiteNissanS13 · 09-29-2004, 12:09 PM

i know its not directly the same but i've heard of pregnant women use Cocoa butter cremes to rid their stretch marks.

ICKY · 09-29-2004, 12:13 PM

I just live with it, your skin will return to normal eventually. It just takes time for the stretches to go away.

***S14DB*** · 09-29-2004, 01:31 PM

Mederma works well. Expensive but works. Just speeds up the natural process. They will go away if you stay they same weight for a while.

Dee240sx · 09-29-2004, 01:37 PM

If they're that bad, check out a dermatologist.

pruto · 09-29-2004, 03:05 PM

sun tanning?

i have the same problem, bunch of marks on my belly, but they've been there for a while now, almost a year (since i started losing weight and seeing stretch marks). i think i'll worry about it when i reach my goal =)

omen2853 · 09-29-2004, 04:26 PM

from what ive seen with my wife and others, cocoa butter works fine for pregnant girls, but doesnt work as well as mederma for weightlifting. mostly because you wouldve had to have been using cocoa butter to begin with (before you got srtech marks) to make your skin elastic.

mederma works really well for scaring and strechmarks if you dont normally use lotions and such. my friend busted his nose open and his doctor recommended mederma for his facial scaring. it works.

kings_blend · 09-29-2004, 05:13 PM

Are you using steroids at all? A few of my friends take steroids and they have stretch marks on their arms. They go away in a few months but it dosnt look good, use the cocoa butter it might work like everyoes saying. Ive been in the gym for 8 months constantly, and before that i worked out for 3 years but not consistantly, and I never got stretch marks of any kind, you must be doing something wrong, or you have a problem with your skin, or you might be taking steroids I dunno. Check out the websites in Muscle Mag and it should have some answers for you.

statik · 09-29-2004, 07:19 PM

"you must be doing something wrong, or you have a problem with your skin, or you might be taking steroids "

uhh, its called excess skin from him losing weight, the skin is all stretched out from where the fat used to be, theres nothing wrong with him

Toahk · 09-29-2004, 08:22 PM

Steroids has nothing to do with stretch marks. I got a bunch on my arms and chest from when I did weightlifting my junior year. It takes a long time for them to "blend", and thats what they do at best. I can still see them on my arm, though harder to see, I doubt they will ever go away. The best thing you can do it rub them with some type of lotion if they are still red, once they stop being red then you cant do anything about it. This is what ive been told by my weightlifting teachers.

kingsol · 09-29-2004, 09:13 PM

yeah i had a few when i lifted in high school, but one trip to hawaii solved that problem! just go out and get a tan

ryan hagen · 09-29-2004, 09:53 PM

i have them on my arms from lifting, goin on 6 years, mine havent gone away, aqnd from what the dermatologist said they wont, like a normal scar, they fade after time but usally dont go completely away. unless u use the creams and stuff, or get plastic surgery.........

rainier · 09-30-2004, 12:33 PM

yeah just use cocoa butter

twitchy · 09-30-2004, 02:35 PM

no steroids for this guy

240niz · 10-01-2004, 04:39 PM

I heard vitamin E oil will help...

*Sanchi* · 10-01-2004, 05:21 PM

Well just think of them as lil lighting bolts of POWER!!

jsr20det · 10-01-2004, 11:29 PM

I still have stretchmarks from weightlifting from last year. They are still visible but I think its gotten a little better. For a while, i tried Vitamin E cream but it didnt do jack.

kandyflip445 · 10-01-2004, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by kings_blend

Are you using steroids at all? A few of my friends take steroids and they have stretch marks on their arms. They go away in a few months but it dosnt look good, use the cocoa butter it might work like everyoes saying. Ive been in the gym for 8 months constantly, and before that i worked out for 3 years but not consistantly, and I never got stretch marks of any kind, you must be doing something wrong, or you have a problem with your skin, or you might be taking steroids I dunno. Check out the websites in Muscle Mag and it should have some answers for you.

You're dumb.

Mederma. I had a LOT of stretch marks on my arms cause they grow fast (by my sophmore year i was curling like 50's in each hand...though I can't do it anymore, lol). Works good. But I stopped using it and started weight lifting again. I need to get some more so it doesn't get any worse.

AlligatorBling · 10-02-2004, 03:43 PM

I have several scars on my right arm from surgeries due to a dirtbike wreck... mederma helps fade them out a little.

BSeay · 10-03-2004, 08:30 PM

they go away after a while...i used to have them under my arms where i lost weight and gained muscle... but now they have basically faded in...

kings_blend · 10-03-2004, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by kandyflip445

You're dumb.

Mederma. I had a LOT of stretch marks on my arms cause they grow fast (by my sophmore year i was curling like 50's in each hand...though I can't do it anymore, lol). Works good. But I stopped using it and started weight lifting again. I need to get some more so it doesn't get any worse.

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oojpeeoo · 10-04-2004, 11:47 AM

at least u dunt have stretch marks on ur ass =\

09-29-2004, 11:35 AM	#1
twitchy Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ontario Posts: 1,579 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Any weightlifters out there? what to do with stretch marks! so I started back at the gym and i lost all kinds of weight and gained plenty of muscles, but now my chest / shoulder / arm area looks like there are sun baked worms all over them anyone have any tips on how to deal with stretchmarks or is there anything i can do? __________________ Who the hell needs a sig anyhow

09-29-2004, 12:09 PM	#2
WhiteNissanS13 Zilvia Addict Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: san diego, ca Age: 39 Posts: 619 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	i know its not directly the same but i've heard of pregnant women use Cocoa butter cremes to rid their stretch marks. __________________

09-29-2004, 01:31 PM	#4
*S14DB* AFC #1 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: 昨晩あなたのお母さんの家 Posts: 20,181 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	Mederma works well. Expensive but works. Just speeds up the natural process. They will go away if you stay they same weight for a while. __________________ Comments should be taken as Opinions not as Statements of Fact

09-29-2004, 03:05 PM	#6
pruto Zilvia Addict Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Los Angeles Age: 43 Posts: 982 Trader Rating: (1) Feedback Score: 1 reviews	sun tanning? i have the same problem, bunch of marks on my belly, but they've been there for a while now, almost a year (since i started losing weight and seeing stretch marks). i think i'll worry about it when i reach my goal =) __________________ Paul Black and Red

09-29-2004, 07:19 PM	#9
statik Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Long Island, NY Age: 40 Posts: 1,358 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: statik Feedback Score: 0 reviews	"you must be doing something wrong, or you have a problem with your skin, or you might be taking steroids " uhh, its called excess skin from him losing weight, the skin is all stretched out from where the fat used to be, theres nothing wrong with him __________________ 97 240sx esaarr \| Current Status: SOLD

09-29-2004, 12:13 PM	#3
ICKY Account Closed Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Va Beach Age: 37 Posts: 582 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I just live with it, your skin will return to normal eventually. It just takes time for the stretches to go away.

09-29-2004, 01:37 PM	#5
Dee240sx Leaky Injector Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: North Jersey Posts: 55 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	If they're that bad, check out a dermatologist.

09-29-2004, 04:26 PM	#7
omen2853 Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: california, usa Age: 44 Posts: 316 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	from what ive seen with my wife and others, cocoa butter works fine for pregnant girls, but doesnt work as well as mederma for weightlifting. mostly because you wouldve had to have been using cocoa butter to begin with (before you got srtech marks) to make your skin elastic. mederma works really well for scaring and strechmarks if you dont normally use lotions and such. my friend busted his nose open and his doctor recommended mederma for his facial scaring. it works.

09-29-2004, 05:13 PM	#8
kings_blend Leaky Injector Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: WINDSOR Age: 40 Posts: 112 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Are you using steroids at all? A few of my friends take steroids and they have stretch marks on their arms. They go away in a few months but it dosnt look good, use the cocoa butter it might work like everyoes saying. Ive been in the gym for 8 months constantly, and before that i worked out for 3 years but not consistantly, and I never got stretch marks of any kind, you must be doing something wrong, or you have a problem with your skin, or you might be taking steroids I dunno. Check out the websites in Muscle Mag and it should have some answers for you.

09-29-2004, 08:22 PM	#10
Toahk Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: N. Cali Age: 39 Posts: 434 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Steroids has nothing to do with stretch marks. I got a bunch on my arms and chest from when I did weightlifting my junior year. It takes a long time for them to "blend", and thats what they do at best. I can still see them on my arm, though harder to see, I doubt they will ever go away. The best thing you can do it rub them with some type of lotion if they are still red, once they stop being red then you cant do anything about it. This is what ive been told by my weightlifting teachers. __________________ formerly Norcal_Drifter http://www.cardomain.com/id/toahk

09-29-2004, 09:13 PM	#11
kingsol Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Berkeley/San Francisco Posts: 1,435 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	yeah i had a few when i lifted in high school, but one trip to hawaii solved that problem! just go out and get a tan __________________ There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. -Emerson

09-29-2004, 09:53 PM	#12
ryan hagen Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: rhinelander wisconsin Age: 42 Posts: 1,465 Trader Rating: (8) Feedback Score: 8 reviews	i have them on my arms from lifting, goin on 6 years, mine havent gone away, aqnd from what the dermatologist said they wont, like a normal scar, they fade after time but usally dont go completely away. unless u use the creams and stuff, or get plastic surgery......... __________________ 1990 hatch ka24de gt2871r

09-30-2004, 12:33 PM	#13
rainier Nissanaholic! Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: San Diego / Santa Ana Age: 38 Posts: 2,093 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	yeah just use cocoa butter __________________

09-30-2004, 02:35 PM	#14
twitchy Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ontario Posts: 1,579 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	no steroids for this guy __________________ Who the hell needs a sig anyhow

10-01-2004, 04:39 PM	#15
240niz Leaky Injector Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Northwest Posts: 67 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I heard vitamin E oil will help...

10-01-2004, 05:21 PM	#16
Sanchi Macadamia Nut Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 405 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: Sanchi Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Well just think of them as lil lighting bolts of POWER!! __________________ "Fear is the path to the Dark Side..., Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate leads to Suffering…" -Yoda

10-01-2004, 11:29 PM	#17
jsr20det Zilvia Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 268 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I still have stretchmarks from weightlifting from last year. They are still visible but I think its gotten a little better. For a while, i tried Vitamin E cream but it didnt do jack. __________________ 98 GSX

10-02-2004, 03:43 PM	#19
AlligatorBling BANNED Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Virgina Age: 43 Posts: 856 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I have several scars on my right arm from surgeries due to a dirtbike wreck... mederma helps fade them out a little.

10-03-2004, 08:30 PM	#20
BSeay Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Richmond, VA Age: 42 Posts: 634 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	they go away after a while...i used to have them under my arms where i lost weight and gained muscle... but now they have basically faded in... __________________ 1995 240SX SE - Sold

10-04-2004, 11:47 AM	#22
oojpeeoo Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: san jose Posts: 538 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	at least u dunt have stretch marks on ur ass =\