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| Why can't I tone my breasts with chest exercises? |
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| Written by MaHeDa |
| Saturday, 13 February 2010 17:35 |
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There are two answers to this question.
The short answer is - "no amount of exercise can firm up your breasts because they simply contain no muscle!"
The long answer will require a general description of the anatomy of the human breast. If no amount of exercise can improve the appearance of your breasts is there anything that might actually help? Yes, there is - but we will come to this later.
Let's start with another question - namely:
What are our breasts made of? After a brief reflection the answer seems to be easy. Breasts are composed of fat (adipose tissue), glandular tissue, milk ducts and, of course, blood and lymphatic vessels. And on the outside each breast is covered by your skin. What then causes your breasts to sag over time? You will be right in suspecting the culprit to be your skin, which becomes slack and ceases to be able to hold your breasts up. But what can you actually do to help your breasts, which, apart from becoming saggy, have also changed their consistency? Weight fluctuations or a rapid loss of weight may cause many women's breasts to go soft inside in such a way that many women will have the impression that their breasts have changed inside into some kind of watery jelly.The problem with such breasts is that they will be spilling out when wearing a plunge bra. When you try to push them up the upper parts will behave like the surface of water with waves appearing even with the slightest movement of your body. Neither exercise nor any miracle creams will be able to help you.
At this point, however, a properly fitted bra can come to the rescue.
However, with so much damage caused to your breasts in the beginning this unwelcome skin appearance may persist for some time in the areas below your collarbones. With damage accumulated over a period of many years you cannot indeed expect your breasts to be miraculously restored to their natural condition the moment you put on a properly fitted bra. This is a process which may last, depending on many factors, from a few weeks to over a year. How can a bra help tone your breasts? Apart from the parts I mentioned earlier Cooper's ligaments are another anatomical feature of your breasts that needs to be discussed here.Cooper's ligaments? These ligaments are composed of collagen fibres with a nerve running inside the length of each fibre. Cooper's ligaments can be found in the skin of your breasts and also inside your breasts. Cooper's ligaments in the skin are there to hold your breasts up. One set of Cooper's ligaments runs from the clavicle and the clavi-pectoral fascia branching out around breast tissue to the dermis of the skin overlying the breasts in the direction of the nipples. Their extension causes your breasts to sag. There is also another set of Cooper's ligaments running through your breasts from the area of your nipples in the direction of the chest wall. Your breasts are attached to the chest wall through this set of Cooper's ligaments. Because of their structure Cooper's ligaments are flexible. However, with excessive stretching this flexibility can be lost, that is to say, when the ligaments are stretched beyond certain limits they may be never able to return to their original position. Doctors are currently debating the issue of whether the wearing of bras can affect the health of Cooper's ligaments. However, no definite conclusions have been reached yet. There are two hypotheses regarding their role. One of them says that the wearing of bras causes atrophic weakening of Cooper's ligaments. According to this hypothesis- the wearing of bras will cause your breasts to sag in the future because the ligaments are not given time to "learn" how to support your breasts. It sounds sensible in a way but the second hypothesis says the opposite. Its proponents claim that bras will actually help maintain Cooper's ligaments in good condition by assisting them in their task of providing support for your breasts. I myself find the second hypothesis to be closer to the truth as some time ago I was able to restore my ligaments to their original good condition after wearing properly fitted bras for some time. My argument here would be that a bra is the best friend a woman with sagging breasts can get that is to say if it is able to hold her breasts up to allow Cooper's ligaments to recover.
So far the jury is out on this issue. It would seem reasonable to suggest that girls before their first menstruation and when they start their periods should not wear bras except for when they play sports with heavy impact on their breasts such as horse riding or volleyball.
What's the purpose of having nerve tissue inside Cooper's ligaments? The nerve tissue is there to warn you that your ligaments are being stretched beyond their limits of flexibility.This is the reason why your breasts hurt during running or jumping if your underwear is not able to provide appropriate support. If this stretching is excessive the ligaments will extend to such lengths that they cannot return to their original position. When this happens the nerves will send pain signals. The ligaments will also stretch excessively following rapid growth in the size of your breasts - whether at puberty or during pregnancy, or when you start breastfeeding, or just before your period when your breasts may become larger. At such times you should ensure that your breasts get really good support.
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| Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 08:32 |
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