so last year i worked out ran on traid mill, benched pressed, i did squads, and other kinds of work outs, by the end of the year i did lost about 25lbs, but i ended with lots of stretch marks, in my shoulders from the bench press, in my butt from the squads, even in my legs, and in the waist, i want to keep excercising but i dont want my stretchmarks to increase, i know they will fade with time, and that i can use cocoa butter to soften them up, i drink a lot of water, my question is if i stretch before i work out will there be less chances of getting stretch marks, how can i tell if i m getting them, last year i would tell because it hurt alot on the area i got them. so my new routine is run a mile in a track stretch for about 20 minutes, then run around 4 miles and stretch for another 20 minutes is this a lot of stretching?