Working out chest for females?

Question

Is it true that when females work out their chest their breast reduce in size!?

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Answer 1

That is a tricky question, so let me see if I can answer it as best I know how to. Understand that I am a guy, but I am familiar with the anatomy.

Your breast tissue is fat. It lies on top of the Pectoralis Major and Pectoralis Minor Muscles. If you work out to the point that you cut your body fat below the normal range for a healthy woman (which is, I think, anywhere from 8% to about 15%), then the breast tissue WILL shrink as the body burns off the fat.

This can occur in a number of ways: first, chest exercises can burn the fat off; or else the burning of calories at high rate from other forms of exercise can burn it off. However, realize that it will mean different things to different women. A woman with a large cup size may be able to afford to trim it down a bit, and a woman with a smaller cup size probably might pay more attention to it. However, never forget that good things come in small packages, so try to be at home with whatever you've got, large or small.

Having said that, there is another phenomena that can occur for women who REALLY build up their chest muscles. The development of large pectoralis muscles can act like an artficial platform that pushes up into the fatty tissue of the breast and which can make the breast tissue spread out more along the pectoralis muscles, or can end up looking like a smaller lump on top of a larger mass which throws off the normal appearance on the breast.

The best advice I can offer is that it is healthy to work out your muscles, but that getting stacked in the chest can have some unexpected consequences for a woman's breast profile. TO tone and strengthen the chest without altering the profile too much, there are a few specific exercises which can help:

Butterflys are a way to strengthen the connective muscles between the right and left side of your chest, and sometimes can augment breast size, Bench presses, will work different areas of the pectoralis muscles depending upon how you grip the bar, and whether or not you are on an incline or decline when performing them. Prone barbell raises from behind the head over the chest can build up muscle at the base of the pectoralis and tighten up loos tissue, which may help to lift.

The best advice I can give is to find a woman at your gym who seems to know a lot about weightlifting, and to ask her what she does, and then take a gander at how it has affected her development. Then design your workout plan based on what you see and what you want to sculpt.

Good luck.

Answer 2

When you work out you burn fat and the breast area does have a good percentage of fat content. So yes they will reduce in size at least a little. There is also a theory that if you build up the chest muscles and then let them go they will turn into fat. Muscle does not turn into fat. When you stop working out then the fat will start to build up again and then they will enlarge a little, but then again so will the abs.

Answer 3

It depends on the degree.

If you go to extremes like female body-builders, well, I've always wondered why they bother with tops.

If you exercise more moderately, your breasts will appear larger, for sitting atop larger pectoral muscles. Your breasts won't get bigger, but they'll look bigger from being put on pedestals of muscle.

Answer 4

breasts are composed mainly of fat. When you work out, you increase your muscle mass, and muscles burn fat for necessary energy. Breasts won't just disappear that quickly. If you check out pics on women weightlifters you can see they still have breasts. Just don't go nutso.....and they will get firmer and more uplifting naturally.

Answer 5

not if you do wall push ups because there is muscle in the front of the chest and these wall push ups largen the muscles and if you stop doing them the muscle will turn to fat and your breasts are bigger