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Pregnant women and teenagers are not the only ones prone to developing stretch marks, athletes are also susceptible. Among athletes, bodybuilders are the most likely than to develop these skin problems. The sport is a constant strain on your skin, but that’s part of the game.
However, there’s no need to give up your favorite sport to prevent or treat stretch marks. Follow these simple guidelines if you want to keep your skin supple and elastic while bulking up.
How Stretch Marks can be prevented
A balanced diet is key to a bodybuilder’s overall state of health. Bodybuilders must bulk up by increasing their caloric intake. This necessarily means putting on more pounds and expanding their body size.
However, in the race to bulk up some bodybuilders may be getting dirty bulk instead of clean bulk. Clean bulk means increasing caloric intake by eating healthy but highly caloric foods. These foods generally include whole grain rice, lean meats, whole grain pasta, and sweet potatoes.
Dirty bulking, on the other hand, is a quick way of building body mass through the consumption of junk food. Bodybuilders that profess a dirty bulking diet, may or may not include healthy foods in their diet. Stretch marks usually appear more in people that follow a poor diet, so dirty bulking wouldn’t be an advisable choice.
Exercise will help improve your circulation. Blood carries nutrients to all parts of your body and extracts wastes. Improving your circulation will help fortify your skin.
Habits such as smoking are noxious to your health especially if you’re an athlete. Smoking can also rob your skin it of its elasticity and make it weak and fragile. Stretch marks are inherent of weak skin. So the less elastic your skin is, the more likely it will be to develop stretch marks.
Stretch Marks Treatment
Choosing the right stretch mark treatment will help you rid stretch marks from your body. Or you can try a microdermabrasion cream that can slowly eliminate them.
Natural skin care products containing all natural ingredients such as rose hip oil and Helix aspersa muller extract, have shown amazing results when treating teenage and pregnancy stretch marks. Both of these products have the ability to eliminate damaged tissue and replace it with healthy tissue.
Microdermabrasion techniques are also a popular way of eliminating scars. This method inflicts a tiny bit of damage to a particular area which provokes a biological response that stimulates the replacement of dead cells with new cells.
The stretch mark (or deep scar) is slowly replaced by normal skin tissue. This treatment is also used to treat wrinkles, age spots and other signs of aging.
BIOBODYBALM is a wonderfully natural skin care product that can help prevent stretch marks and treat all sorts of body scars. However, if you prefer a microdermabrasion for stretchmarks, then try BIOSKINEXFOL, an at home microdermabrasion cream.
- Martha Fitzharris
