Fact or Myth: Loose Skin can be helped with exercise

Skin will not tighten all on its own, I've written about the topic in the past and there are a bunch of variables to consider...

Skin elasticity, keeping hydrated, skin moisturizer, etc... the list goes on. Sometimes it must really be the luck of the draw. :-(

I have lost over 30% of my body weight due to exercise and diet. However, I still have the loose skin that I have been trying to eliminate. But at my age there is only so much exercise that you can handle. I work out every day consisting of a two mile walk, followed by resistance training, then another fast paced two to four miles. Later, I follow up with 30 minutes (at least) cardio on the elliptical and then a slow pace walk at about 3 to 3 1/2 mph to cool down. Still I keep trying to loose the flabby skin... 

Myth.

Exercise is going to build muscles which fill out your body a little and, in turn, make your loose skin slightly less severe. It's genetics, age, how much skin we had to begin with, etc.

I didn't exercise at all for 6 months following surgery (I'm seven months out now) and my skin is really not that bad. I thought it would be much worse seeing as how I'm almost 40 and have yo-yo'ed my whole life and had two huge babies, but at this point I don't have plastics planned since it's not severe enough.

It's the luck of the draw.