[quote]browndisaster wrote:
lol doctor x cmon don’t misread it so badly, a 14% DEcrease is a big deal when the others had a 24% INcrease. But yeah, I’d agree with you and say I’d rather spend the cash on protein than I would tretinoin.[/quote]
? It isn’t a big deal in someone who IS GROWING. I haven’t stayed the same size my entire life for very long. It would be all out stupid for someone like me to be concerned in the least about stretch marks.
I can understand not being super happy they are there, but holy shit, we seem to have a hell of a lot of guys here who want all of the perks of muscle without any of the trials that build it.
[quote]Sayonara wrote:
LOL … to be honset, i give 0 fuks if i really cant do anything about it, iv gotten much more used to them now , and i wont stop lifting just because i risk getting more, just wanted to know if theres anything to do about them, also wanted to get some motivation to not care about them, if keep lifting means that i will get stretchmarks in my fuking forhead, than so be it![/quote]
Yeah, you gotta take the good with the bad, and stretch marks is just a little bit of bad that comes along with a whole lot good in this case.
[quote]ElevenMag wrote:
Most of the time they are caused by a mineral deficiency. [/quote]
Que?
LOL. You guys are a hoot.
A bodybuilding forum afraid of stretch marks to the point of recommending going to pregnancy websites for help.
Most of the time they are caused BECAUSE THE SKIN GOT STRETCHED DUE TO A SIZE INCREASE OF EITHER FAT MUSCLE OR BOTH.
I guess if “size” now constitutes as a mineral deficiency, then yes.[/quote]
Yes I suggested Tretinoin which is proven to work, you find this amusing? A question was asked and I provided an educated answer backed up with references that anyone could check. I suppose when you are wrong, as you were, the only resort is to make stupid comments.
[quote]jjayoo wrote:
Please explain how that’s funny. If you want advice about how to reduce strech marks seek advice from big business designed directly for that reason?[/quote]
Well that “big business” is BIG BULLSHIT.
Folks, anything that disrupts the structural integrity of the DERMIS is here to stay permanently! Doesn’t matter if it’s a slash of a knife, a deep burn from acid or the increase in muscle and/or adipose tissue. No amount of topical ointments or lazer therapies are going to fix anything as it pertains to the DERMAL layer.
The only “formula” that works is TIME. They will (as many have already mentioned) diminish in prominence. Hopefully in the meantime your focus will shift to physique progress while you “wait” for them to fade. In other words your priorities and value system will change to the point where you may wonder why you ever gave a shit about the stretch marks in the first place.[/quote]
Exactly. It’s a fucking SCAR. You don’t reduce it any other way than time and by not getting any bigger…which is exactly what a BODYBUILDER would not do.[/quote]
This is where you were 100% wrong just incase you missed it
“Effective treatment of striae must be instituted during the active stage, well before the scarring process is complete.[1] Various modalities of treatment have been tried. Weight loss by diet alone or a combination of diet and exercise do not change the degree of striae distensae.[18] Topical tretinoin (0.1%) ameliorates striae and the improvement may persist for almost a year after discontinuation of therapy. [1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11],[12],[13],[14],[15],[16],[17],[18],[19], A study comparing topical 20% glycolic acid and 0.05% tretinoin versus 20% glycolic acid and 10% L-ascorbic acid, found that both regimens improved the appearance of striae alba”
[quote]jjayoo wrote:
Please explain how that’s funny. If you want advice about how to reduce strech marks seek advice from big business designed directly for that reason?[/quote]
Well that “big business” is BIG BULLSHIT.
Folks, anything that disrupts the structural integrity of the DERMIS is here to stay permanently! Doesn’t matter if it’s a slash of a knife, a deep burn from acid or the increase in muscle and/or adipose tissue. No amount of topical ointments or lazer therapies are going to fix anything as it pertains to the DERMAL layer.
The only “formula” that works is TIME. They will (as many have already mentioned) diminish in prominence. Hopefully in the meantime your focus will shift to physique progress while you “wait” for them to fade. In other words your priorities and value system will change to the point where you may wonder why you ever gave a shit about the stretch marks in the first place.[/quote]
Exactly. It’s a fucking SCAR. You don’t reduce it any other way than time and by not getting any bigger…which is exactly what a BODYBUILDER would not do.[/quote]
This is where you were 100% wrong just incase you missed it :)[/quote]
LOL.
Yes, I was completely wrong that bodybuilders would be wasting their time with this since THEY KEEP GROWING.
This site is obviously better off with this many people running around acting like theory is the same as experience.
I just Googled stretch marks. So that’s what those weird red marks on my inner thighs and arms were. I remember getting stretch marks near my adductors accompanied by a lot of pain when I started pulling sumo more. Guess they painfully hypertrophied to meet the task at hand lol. Kinda neat.
