Fit and Youthful Life

As body builders, you are trying to create a strong, muscular, lean, well-sculpted beautiful body that is the epitome of your physical perfection – a body in its purest physical form functioning at its peak performance.

The last thing you want to see when you flex in the mirror is a purple marks and then more purple scars until you realise that all the hard work of you bulking up has resulted in something you didn’t have before – stretch marks!

It is common for body builders to get stretch marks in their pecs, their legs, their arms and their shoulders.

Unfortunately, it is a very unpleasant side effect of bulking up.

Stretch marks affect different people from all walks of life for a wide variety of reasons.

Here are some of the more generally accepted ‘hormonal’ or endocrine ’causes’, or more accurately stated, contributing factors to developing stretch marks:

1. Negative emotion, depression or extreme unhappiness (emotions are neuro-peptides and affect the processes and organs in your body)

2. Developmental factors and stages, growth and puberty for adolescents and budding your adults, (both boys and girls)

3. Vitamins and nutrient deficiencies

4. Pregnancy

5. Rapid weight gain or weight loss

6. Sudden change in