Sports Bras Are Critical For Active Lifestyles
The feats being performed during the Olympics are amazing. It is also easy to see how much wear and tear the bodies of the athletes take. In the case of women, this includes the massive movements requiring sports bras.
Let me be brutally honest. If you participate in sports, you need to wear a sports bra. If you do not, you risk doing major long term damage to yourself. Studies have shown running can result in five or more inches of bouncing for breasts after all.
As you well know, up and down is not the only direction we have to worry about. Depending on what you are doing, movement in just about every angle is possible and you really have to pay attention to what you are doing.
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.
When it comes to fashion, the sports bra is a dud. It is bland as they come, but that is okay. Wearing a sports bra means you will be able to wear a sexier bra when you desire to smolder without worrying about the effects of gravity.
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.
Since we have two basic sports bras, you undoubtedly want to know which one you should use. There is no real right answer. The compression bra is good for women with B cups or less, while the encapsulation bra is comfortable for bigger sizes.
The sports bra has not really changed all that much since it was first created, the encapsulation cup notwithstanding. The issue is not so much which version you wear as it is whether you wear one or not. You would be crazy not to.
Source: Sport
