SmokeAndMirrors
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To be fair here, unless a person is obese, belly fat is the same thing.
It is loose fat on top of muscle, which just so happens to sway back and forth while running. I didn't like it.
The breasts don't really have "muscles" in the first place. They have ligaments, which can't really be "exercised," and aren't even widely believed to be connected to sagging at all.
Cooper's Ligaments
Wearing a bra or not wearing a bra seems to be more or less irrelevant either way.
All I was saying is that I could see why most women would prefer bras for support, especially when doing moderate to high impact aerobic exercises.
It's basically the same principle as wearing shoes.
Are they necessary? Probably not.
However, they can still help in some regards. :shrug:
Nope, but behind and to the sides do, and they can get weaker as well. While this doesn't impact shape, it does impact height. The ligaments being undeveloped actually is what can cause pain (as can lymph restriction due to poor fit or simply some women's rib shape no matter what bra they wear).
Your belly isn't designed to be carrying that. Boobs are. I'm telling ya, man, I have them, and I've had them at lots of different sizes. It doesn't hurt.
I am always willing to grant useful purposes of silly social mandates. After all, it isn't the object's fault it is subjected to silly mandates. But the bra is uniquely useless. Really, its only potential use beyond cosmetics is protecting recent surgery. It is terrible for anatomical support. Probably the worst thing you could possibly do. It's using your thoracic outlet as the support structure. That's insane.
Now, people should wear what pleases them, but they should not have it sold to them by misguided wives tales.