Weight lifting help breast shape?

 You can't improve the shape or size of the breasts by doing pectoralis muscle exercise.  All you will be changing is the underlying platform from which the breasts are projected.  If your breasts have lost tone and volume, no amount of exercise will reverse this trend.  Surgery, either an... more

The lower edge of Pectoralis Major muscle usually underlies the nipple in men and is a few fingers higher than the nipple in women. As you can see from body building magazines, as the volume of the Pectoralis major increases this relation does not change. BUT - very few serious female body builders have much... more

Weight lifting is great to help build and define upper body tone. It will also aid you in losing total body fat, which may include reduction of fat within the breasts. However, weight lifting will not increase breast size, nor will it correct sagging breast skin.

Hello, If by "breast shape" you are referring to droopy breasts, the answer is no. Exercise does not tighten the skin. So weight lifting won't really help improve "breast shape."

I suppose that some degree of breast shaping may be possible through weightlifting, and in fact a woman with strong pectoral muscles may be more likely to retain a "perky" breast shape. But I personally would not recommend weight lifting as a substitute to breast augmentation for a few reasons.First,... more

Unfortunately, as a plastic surgeon, I am biased. I see the patients who have tried this and failed. So, in my opinion, it does not achieve sufficient or adequate correction of the breast shape. However, to be fair, I also don't see the patients who may have had a satsifactory outcome from this intervention.