| Sports Bras Are Critical For Active Lifestyles |
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| Health and Fitness - Health Issues |
| Written by Tiffany Hart |
| Sunday, 14 September 2008 14:59 |
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The modern bra is often used to amplify a particular look. If you have an active lifestyle full of sports, it should also play a critical role in providing you with plenty of support. If it does not, you can do a lot of damage.
The modern bra is often used to amplify a particular look. If you have an active lifestyle full of sports, it should also play a critical role in providing you with plenty of support. If it does not, you can do a lot of damage. If you do not wear a sports bra when you exercise, you are crazy. Studies have revealed that during simple running, breasts may bounce up and down as much as six to eight inches. There are actual videos on YouTube.com showing this painful fact. Of course, things do not move just up and down. They also move to the left and right as well as in other directions. Exercise is great. That being said, what is the benefit of helping one part of your body while damaging another area? Your breasts are not supported by muscles per se. Instead, they are supported by ligaments and, obviously, skin. If you watch sports at all, you know ligaments can be damaged and skin, of course, stretches. You need some additional support. I will be honest. The average sports bra is not going to set the world on fire from a fashion point of view. In truth, you really should not care. Play hard and party hard, but do them different. Sports bras are for playing hard and seductive bras are for the remainder of the day. Whether you had large or small breasts, you were pretty much restricted to one type of sports bra for the longest of times. This was known as the compression sports bra. The encapsulate sports bra, however, has recently changed things up. The compression sports bra has been with us a long time because, frankly, it is good. It is ugly as sin, but performs well. It flattens the breast to the chest wall and eliminates the breast bouncing that can stress ligaments and produce sagging. The compression sports bra has not always worked well for well endowed women. The newer encapsulation bra was designed as an alternative. It works by providing maximum cup support to each breast, but lets them move independently for less of a smushed feeling. Unlike many issues with bras, the choice between these two breaks down pretty cleanly. If you have a C cup or larger, try the encapsulation sports bra. If you are smaller, go with the compression version. Unlike many of the variations of brassieres we have seen through the years, the sports bra has pretty much remained the same. Why? It works well. The encapsulation has only come around as bust sizes have grown, but should carry on the tradition of the compression sports bra. |