found a bit of a weird problem yesterday. im starting to get stretch marks on the top of my triceps near the arm pit. shit the bed to start with as thought i'd popped a blood vessel!

never heard anyone talk about them before, is it normal or am i guna die?!

seriously tho - is there anyway to stop getting more bad ones? anything you can do to make them less noticeable? as they look properly disgusting!

cheers, Matt

 

get a pic up to how bad they are, i have small ones, but i tend not to worry

 

rather not mate - bit minging!

they are about 4 inches long - look like bright red veins!

 

no mate i have them bad as well, shud see my mates who is on the "vitamins"

 

Go on......

 

dont worry mate, i have them, nought i can do about it

got them on my shoulders and the same place you have them

 

sweet - so there is nothing to do about them? how long should i expect for them to go down?

 

What the hell never heard of this before and i workout alot!

 

fat chance rad - the pics would come back again and again to haunt me on here!!

 

LOL ok mate


Was just interested to see how "bad" they are..

Just looking at my armpit and i cant see mine atm

 

mine on shoulders go from top of bicep to 2 inch short of base of neck,
they have now faded so quite blend in

the ones near arm pit are about 2 inch long

 

thats what i thought. never heard of it before. and im not a member of any gym so cant go and ask there!

 

You'll be lucky

They don't go away, ever. And there's nothing you can do about them either!

 

must be somet to do with the area you concentrate on or build up to fast

 

never go away! sod giving birth then!!

think your right about working them too hard. think i'll stick to running for a few weeks!

 

i got mine from work, i was doing a very manual job for 6 days sold which meant
carrying steel on my shoulders, by he end of the 6 days, i had the marks

 

I have them worse where my chest meets my armpit and arms. I've also got a few near the top of my thighs, but I do have bloody big legs

I saw one monster who had them on his forearms - talk about rapid growth

Use a good vitamin E cream to help avoid stretchmarks

The wife uses a good clarins lotion now she's 35wks gone which I could recommend

 

i have a mate called eddy elwood he was on englands strongest man he has them every where . when i was training i got a few but thay disapeared thay are also caused by doing movements that you dont normally do . its not very often you put your arms above your head unles your training

 

@ rudey!

cheers for the tips paul - will try the cream!

 

Your mates with eddy elwood, wow

Seen him a few times on the strongman circuit

 

do as paul egg says, spot on advice. after a while they go white but they do stay, its rapid growth, nothing to do with moving ya arms

a mate of mine uses cocoa butter but also after a while you can not grow anymore without help as hes a built fooker but now hes just getting cut rather that bulking up

maybe just him though but he dont use any weight gain stuff, just presses 55ks a side plus a bar that weighs 20(ish)k's

when i went gym i was pressing 35 a side and started to get em at th bottom of me shoulders and as i got ginger hair i have a some what white complextion,,,,,,, looked wrong so stopped

 

I worked with Albert Beckles son when I was at Kodak. For those in the know, Albert Beckles was competing with Arnold and was runner up at the Olympia one year. Thats my bodybuilding claim to fame.

 

its normal seen a few people with them and they will fade and not be as noticable

 

tis normal m8 i have loads of em on the inside of my arms along my biceps

 

yup i gota few aswel round shoulder/arm area.....mine faded alot after i used this silicon gel, i know a guy who's pretty huge and he recommended the stuff