Why Chest Workouts Alone Won’t Fix Sagging Breasts: An In-Depth Look

Before anyone gets upset saying that chest workouts are good, please read this until the end...

I'm not saying chest workouts aren't good, because I still do chest exercises myself. What I want to clarify is the EXPECTATION of chest workouts to firm up breasts.

Women’s breasts are made up of three types of tissue: glandular, fibrous, and fatty. These tissue groups are the outermost layers before the skin of the breast. So the simple anatomy of the breast from the outermost layer is skin - tissue collection - chest muscle - rib cage. In short, when you train your chest and your chest muscles become thicker, you hope that the thickness of the chest muscles will lead to the expectation that your breasts will also firm up. Unfortunately, the term "firming" the breasts through muscle growth will not meet most women's expectations.

If you genetically have smaller breasts, are still young, and have never given birth, then increasing chest muscle thickness may give the illusion of firming the breasts.

However, most women looking to firm up their breasts are those who have issues with sagging breasts that cannot be fixed just by doing chest workouts. Usually, these are women who genetically have larger breasts. Breast sagging is caused by many factors such as age, multiple pregnancies, smoking, and extreme weight loss.

Imagine that the sagging part consists of skin and breast tissue; is training the chest to enlarge the chest muscles sufficient to firm up your sagging breasts? Of course, IT IS NOT ENOUGH. Breast lift surgery is the only solution for maximizing breast firmness.

The bottom line is that any form of exercise is good, but expectations and reality must always align so that you remain motivated and do not lose heart in achieving your fitness goals.