What is the best breast exercise? It may sound like a funny question, but it is one that my husband (he is a personal trainer) gets often with his female clients, and one that I myself had a few months ago.
I have always had a generally muscular physique, and never had large, or really even an average breast size. They may have been small, but I was content with that because quite frankly, it?s a lot easier to be physically active without having to worry about any unfortunate ?wardrobe malfunctions?, if you get my drift.
After getting on birth control, when we got married, I quickly began to see an increase in my bust size. Although my quickly increasing breast size was pleasing to my husband, I wanted to make sure that I kept my breast firm and lifted. (no body wants saggy boobs regardless of how big they are!)
I went to my husband and said, ?I want to start working with my chest!? After seeing his slightly shocked facial expression I refined my comment to ?I want an exercise to firm my breast.? I could tell that he was pleased with my new found interest so, much to his humor and excitement we devised a workout plan to find the best breast exercise.
There are some important things to consider when firming up your chest. First of all, your breasts are for the most part fat, so in order to lift and firm you actually have to build up the muscle underneath. So, you need to decide exactly where you want to go with them.
The purpose of firming a muscle is generally to remove fat. By overworking your chest with resistance training you could greatly reduce your breast size. (Something my husband was not interested in me doing) So together we agreed on what we were looking for. We were going to try to lift and firm without losing too much of the cup size.
Like I said before, the way to start seeing firmness in the chest area is to build up the muscle underneath. We started by adding a few more chest specific exercises to my current workout routine.
He had me start doing a variety of pushups; pushups on bars, inclined pushups, and even worked my way up to a decline pushup, (this greatly helped lift my breasts). He also had me do dumbbell flys on the stability ball, and even bench press.
I was eager to see my improvement on the four week program we worked up to determine whether or not this type of program created the result that I was after. It did. We decided that the push up is the best breast exercise because you can mix it up to work on your specific ?problem area? also, since we were not using added weight it did not make me lose size or cause me to bulk up and look like a man.
Obviously, strength training is key when it comes to firming muscle, whether it?s in your chest or other areas of your body. The good news is that it doesn?t have to be done in a gym; it can be done at home. There are many different magazines and books that offer ways to do resistance training at home. You can use resistance bands or purchase weights from a local sports equipment store.
If you are unsure of what to do, there are a lot of great fitness books out there that will guide you through exercises and diet. Another alternative would be to purchase personal training sessions (this can be costly however).
I was so pleased with my results that I decided to share my new found knowledge. My husband has been implementing programs like this with his clients, and they have seen great results as well!
