Loose skin... Please help!!!

[Complete Muscle]

A client of mine recently asked me:

How can I get rid of my loose skin, its really out of control. It is preventing me from having a six pack! Do you know of anything I can do its on my chest, stomach, arms, back, face and under arms.

Any ideas???

 

[duritz]

Seems to me this person lost a lot of weight, ,but never worked out while doing it. I call it the "OPRAH syndrome". They need to tone up that area in order for it to be tight. Other than that maybe some surgery.

 

[Vageta]

The skin can only tighten so much. If this person in question was truely huge before losing all of the weight then the only answer may be surgery. Make sure however that the "skin" they are calling it is truely skin and not just bodyfat.

Also if it's everywhere then they can also increase muscle mass to fill the empty space. I can't see how there would be that much loose skin on arms and such, this is usually only a problem on the stomach area.

Also remember skin takes time to shrink so if this person recently lost a large amount of weight they probably lost it faster than than their skin could shrink. It may take many months for the skin to shrink as much as possible.

I'd tell them to try and build some muscle mass that was probably lost while dieting. I don't think there is surgery specifically to tuck areas like arms and such so if they aren't willing to attempt to gain muscle mass then they should be prepared to be saggy for the rest of their lives.

 

[Complete Muscle]

Thanx duritz and Vageta for replies. Anyopne else???

 

[gymtime]

Skin recovery depends largely on two things: one, the speed at which you lost your weight. If you lost weight quickly, often the skin doesn't have time to adapt and shrink. I suppose it also depends on how big you were to begin with. Skin sometimes never recovers from large amounts of fat loss.

As for building muscle mass to compensate, you'd have to do so many roids and become so massive before you could even begin to come close. I doubt it would help.

Young people, early to mid 20s can usually expect their skin to tighten up, regardless of how fast they lost. But as for 30 somethings and older, the skin is much less elastic and is unlikley to revert to it's original tightness. IMO, there's very little you can do other than surgery.