Building Pectoral Muscles Before Breast Augmentation?

While exercising prior to surgery is always a good idea, I think it's important to just continue on your standard routine. Increasing your "fly" or pec work will probably not only not help your recovery but may make it more painful. Remember that you're breaking down the muscle every time that you work out. That muscle needs time to rebuild. So don't change your routine; keep to your work out schedule. If you don't exercise don't start right before surgery.

Whether you build your pecs beofre breast augmentation or not sems to make no difference in your recovery.  I have had very strong muscled patients who have recovered as though they didn't even have surgery, so I think it is much more dependent on your personality and pain threshold than anything else. 

Whether you have exercised and built up your pectoral muscles should make very little difference in your recovery. What is important is following an effective stretching routine in the post operative period which has been shown to reduce pain and hasten recovery.

We generally advise patients to cease from pectoralis strengthening for 2-4 weeks prior to surgery to decrrease bleeding and swelling of the engorged muscle.

Even if the chest muscle is well developed recovery after breast augmentation should be smooth and reasonably comfortable. The majority of breast implants placed in breast augmentation are positioned under the chest muscle, the pectoralis, for several reasons. The coverage of the upper edge of the implant will produce and smooth an natural contour and reduce the risk of roundness which can appear even through clothing. Also, by placing the implant under the muscle the implant has a tendency... more

This really isn't going to make a difference as the amount of muscle that you may add won't significantly affect the overall size. Also, if you're getting the implants placed under the muscle you may want to avoid any heavy chest building exercises so that your recovery is easier. Getting the implants over the muscle will give you an easier recovery, but you may see the outline of the implants more. Good luck!

It does not appear to make any difference.as regards recovery from breast augmentation regardless of how the implants are placed (over or under the muscle). Good Luck.

Building up one's pectoralis msucles will probably not have any impact on the post-operative course of a submuscular breast augmentation.  The post-op pain is very subjective to the individual patient.

It will not make much difference in your recovery. The difference will be if you go on top of the muscle, which will be less painful. With good local anasthesia block at the end of the case, you should heal well.

It will not make a difference in recovery. So you can go ahead and do your weight lifting and be rest assured that it will not make your recovery and more or less painful. What works well during the recovery phase is muscle relaxants and make sure your surgeon provides a prescription for some in addition to the pain medication that you are prescribed. Good luck.

Most breast augmentations are done by placing the implants under the pec muscles for a variety of reasons, but whether they are bulked up or not should make litle difference in the early recovery. However, if you are a body builder or athletic, there are issues that are more important long-term with implants under the muscle. One common example is what are called "animation deformities" in which the breast is distorted every time the muscle is flexed. A variation of the subfascial... more

If you are having breast implants placed over the muscle, then it truly makes no difference. If you are having the implants placed below the pec muscles (which I do for almost 99% of my cosmetic breast augmentations), then it still does not make much of a difference! If will not make your surgery go better or worse and should not ultimately change your result very much or alter your recovery. In theory, your plastic surgeon may have to "fight harder" with your stronger muscle to... more

Not sure of the reason for your question but if the implants are placed under the muscles you probably should not do any pectoral build up ahead of time. If on top of the muscle it should not make any difference.