If the skin isn't as flexible (it will be in due time) then exercise could cause it to stretch quickly from increased blood flow. This quick stretch could explain the pins and needles feeling because the skin is quickly being pulled on the micro-level.
Definition. During development, most animals form a gastrula. A gastrula is an embryo that has undergone gastrulation, or the process that produces different germ layers. Germ layers are the initial tissue layers of an embryo, and animals can have up to three. 1  Ectoderm is the outermost layer of cells.
A third, middle layer of cells called the mesoderm is formed as cells begin to populate the space between the endoderm and the ectoderm. These three layers, the endoderm, the ectoderm and the mesoderm, are called the primary germ layers. After gastrulation, the cup-like embryonic stage that contains at least two distinct germ layers is called the gastrula.