stretch marks

**JelloTrip** · 07-25-2006, 06:08 PM

I never got stretch marks until I had stopped lifting for a month. I didnt put on any weight because I weighed the same but I had to move to another state and things were hectic so I took some time off from the gym. The stretch marks are on my armpit/upper arm, Im sure u know the place. Just wondering why it happened a month after I stopped lifting. Any advice/experience appreciated

**Timm1704** · 07-25-2006, 06:19 PM

dude, i wish i knew why that happened, but i dont. the place you have them is the most common place lifters get them anyway. did your body composition change at all in that month? like did you lose fat/gain muscle due to a good recovery period, which would result in no weight change? altho even then, this wouldnt be drastic enough to produce stretch marks

**JelloTrip** · 07-25-2006, 06:24 PM

I tried to keep up with cardio and diet as much as possible. didnt have noticeable loss or gain, but strength was down of course. I just thought it was weird that after i stopped trying to grow, I get stretch marks, unless they are caused by something else, but i thought they only came from growth

**Timm1704** · 07-25-2006, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by JelloTrip

I tried to keep up with cardio and diet as much as possible. didnt have noticeable loss or gain, but strength was down of course. I just thought it was weird that after i stopped trying to grow, I get stretch marks, unless they are caused by something else, but i thought they only came from growth

same here bro. hopefully someone will have an explanation on here, just out of sheer curiosity if nothing else

**boxingbean** · 07-25-2006, 08:40 PM

go to grocery store, 30 $ for a tube of Miderma, for the silver scarring ones, for the present ones, like i had for YEARS, go to GNC, its called Strivectin-SD, very expensive, will worth it...!!!

i had a few of em from front delt to chest, sum 6inches long...gone...maybe a slite sign of em...but ill sport a beater now!

**BladesOfBlood** · 01-02-2007, 08:58 PM

Ditto on the Strivectin-SD, very worth it!

**shwamin2004** · 01-06-2007, 12:57 PM

I recently started getting some on the inner bicep. I got some on the under shoulder and inner thighs. They are started a couple of years ago when I really started to put my horrible eating habits to work and lift. I went in my freshman year weighing 170-180. 4 years later 250 and then stretch marks to show it haha. So this Strivectin-SD will do the trick? About how long does it take to completely wipe out stretch marks?

**Fordfan01** · 01-06-2007, 01:39 PM

u can also use coco butter i had strech marks on my ass from running 4 years of cross country and then ignoreing legs after i was done coco butter made them almost invisible i used the kind that women who just had a baby use to get rid of there strech marks worked wonders

**trip07** · 01-24-2007, 03:06 PM

I tried the coco butter, It didn't work that well. Maybe I wasn't consistent enough. Try the coco butter first because its kinda cheap then go with the more expensive if its not doing a very good job just my .02 cents.

**BladesOfBlood** · 01-25-2007, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by shwamin2004

I recently started getting some on the inner bicep. I got some on the under shoulder and inner thighs. They are started a couple of years ago when I really started to put my horrible eating habits to work and lift. I went in my freshman year weighing 170-180. 4 years later 250 and then stretch marks to show it haha. So this Strivectin-SD will do the trick? About how long does it take to completely wipe out stretch marks?

I've noticed a HUGE difference with the Strivectin-SD and I'm on week 7 of consistently using it. I have really deep stretch marks in about the same places and there is a significant decrease and fading-effect. Money well spent bro.