The Strecth Mark Thread

[sk*]

"No.

You can be skinny or fat and have poor elasticity.
You don't just develop "stretchy skin" - if you are obsese your skin is stretched out and it doesn't mean you will have stretch marks."

Take anyone's skin you want. If you stretch it enough, there will be stretch marks.

"Visible abs doesn't gurantee no stretch marks - that's kinda funny."

At least, I made you laugh, but I said the opposite of that. If you have abs and a very lean body, it will be very hard to avoid stretch marks once you gain enough weight.

"Skin is skin the condition and future condition of your skin is already predeterminded. Having abs, being obese or skinny does dictate how your skin will response - it will change the conditions of your skin but not change the response.

Hope that makes sense - I can't really find a good way to explain that."

I understand what you are saying. I just won't give credit to genetics to determine the elasticity of the skin. Again, no matter who's skin you stretch, after a good amount of resistence it will have stretch marks.

I don't know how much you weigh or anything, but add 100lbs within a year and I guarantee you will have them.

-sk

 

[Lord_Suston]

I have been know to have few in my time....

 

[Naeem]

I dont know about that SK. Personally I was very fat at one point. 230 pounds, 30% bodyfat area. I started dieting and working out very heavily and I am a scarred mofo now. At about 210 17% bodyfat now.

Scars everywhere, biceps, chest, full back, traps, stomatch, ass, hams, quads, inner though forearms.

I'm naturally very unflexible. I cant scratch my back, doggy style hurts. I can just barely touch my toes now thanks to power yoga. Its most likely genetic.

 

[sk*]

doggy style hurts

Wait, what?

-sk

 

[RobertFontaine]

"Believe it or not. . .stretch marks are typically an indicator of rapid weight gain and poor nutrition."

cough, cough, bulshit.

Sorry louden, you may know a lot about strength but stretch marks are my area of expertise, dammit. Had them since puberty, always had a good diet and my weight was within about a 30 pound range during puberty 15-20. Good diet and excellent health. I've got very pretty stretch marks along my delt bicep tie ins. Vitamin E, bulshit. Bad Diet, more bullshit. Severe weight gain, yup more BS again. Talk to the women who have babies. Some get em others don't. Life just works that way. On the plus side I don't think I'll ever have to worry
about a tummy tuck.

oh well I kind of like the way my stretch marks line up with the my muscles. I think it looks cool.

peace.

 

[louden_swain]

"Believe it or not. . .stretch marks are typically an indicator of rapid weight gain and poor nutrition."

cough, cough, bulshit.

Sorry louden, you may know a lot about strength but stretch marks are my area of expertise, dammit. Had them since puberty, always had a good diet and my weight was within about a 30 pound range during puberty 15-20. Good diet and excellent health. I've got very pretty stretch marks along my delt bicep tie ins. Vitamin E, bulshit. Bad Diet, more bullshit. Severe weight gain, yup more BS again. Talk to the women who have babies. Some get em others don't. Life just works that way. On the plus side I don't think I'll ever have to worry
about a tummy tuck.

oh well I kind of like the way my stretch marks line up with the my muscles. I think it looks cool.

peace.

You are entitled to believe what ever you want.

 

[SAGAT]

in what way are stretch marks a sign of poor nutrition?

once again, in what way?

 

[louden_swain]

once again, in what way?

Well look at it this way, if you eat excessive amounts of foods that contain empty calories that are loaded with sugars and fats, you become susceptible to gaining extra fat weight that causes the skin to stretch.

There are vitamins within certain foods that help build and repair the skin, but these are not available in junk foods.

 

[makedah]

Christ, yall. Listen to Velvett. Some people have more elastic skin than others. Just like some people scar easily and others don't. Yes, size fluctuations increase your likelihood of getting stretch marks, but you can get them without those fluctuations and you can fluctuate and NOT get stretch marks. I know skinny young women with stretch marks, meanwhile my mother had three babies, years later put on about 80 lbs and was 50 before she started getting a few stretch marks.

 

[makedah]

And PolishHammer - that pic is absolutely delish!