Q: If I do strength training for my chest muscles, will I lose breast size? I want to be toned but definitely do not want smaller breasts.
A: No, developing your pecs won’t make your breasts smaller. In fact, says Detroit trainer Neil Maki, a spokesman for the American Council on Exercise, doing quality chest exercises will tone the muscle underneath the breast tissue, so your chest may appear to be bigger.”
In female bodybuilders, steroid use can cause the breasts to shrink And the combination of extremely well-developed chest muscles and very low body fat can make a woman’s chest appear less rounded, more flat and sculpted. But in the typical woman, strength training has an overall toning effect. If, however, you lose significant body fat, you may reduce breast size, but the decrease will be proportionate to fat loss from the entire body.
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That answer sounds very spot on to me.
Breast tissue is fat, and losing fat can cause a reduction in breast size.
Building muscle underneath breast fat (without losing any) could make them appear a little bigger.
Yes. The only way to “shrink” breasts is to use steroids. Strength training will not shrink your breasts and yes, toning your pectorals will make your breasts appear slightly larger.
No ~ you will tone ,define and strengthen the muscles. I did this and the results were nice. It gives nice pecks. You would be happy with the results.