Stretch Marks

[xxchrisxx]

So i've gotten stretch marks around my armpit area for about 8 weeks or so. It's starting to bother me, so does anyone here has the same experience? Getting stretch marks while weight lifting. So my question is not how to get rid of/treat but to prevent new ones form happening? I'm starting to see vague traces of them on my biceps now. Sad

I've lowered my caloric intake to a suitable amount, should i take it slow at the gym or even go on a hiatus to let my skin heal?

[Boss Man]

1. You could try to increase Vitamin E content. So any foods with healthy Fat in, or somerthing like Cucumber.

2. Drink more water possibly.

3. Use something like Cocoa Butter.

4. Try a product like Bio-oil.

5. Live with it and accept it's better than having doo dah, that isn't fit for much except chronically slow peeing.

I'm not speaking from experience by that, before anyone gets the urge to take that comment further

[Athene]

Gaining a lot of mass in a relatively short period of time can cause the stretch marks, but so can certain motions - for example, I got really horrible ones on my shoulders and pecs the first time I went sky-diving, the hard jerk of my chute opening actually stretched my skin and made faint purple marks. The marks fade eventually, but I don't know if there's anything you can really do to treat them. I would look up some reviews of creams, and see what you come up with. I've heard good things about the Bio Oil the Boss mentioned, and I know you can get it at any Walmart.

[Boss Man]

There is a similar product to Bio-oil, called Mahadeva or something like that, which might also be worth a look, if you can manage to Google it properly, based on my weak rememberance of the product name

[juan92]

i read somewhere on the cocoa butter so i would go with that one, since 2 people have already recommended it.
i have em too but i think its cuz i used to be overweight, now i just ignore them, but i also have this red stretch mark and im guessing the bench press is to blame because that's all i did back in the day.

[kaithsandy]

Massage with Almond oil or try no marks cream.