Athletic body shape question

[Anonymous]

OP,

You have the wrong end of the stick. Each sport needs a certain body type, so people without them are weeded out well before they reach the top levels of competition. And in NO sport is a very large bust part of that winning profile.

(Also, some suits are made to streamline the silhouette, as in swimming - but even with flattening, no competing athlete has a large bust.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,

You have the wrong end of the stick. Each sport needs a certain body type, so people without them are weeded out well before they reach the top levels of competition. And in NO sport is a very large bust part of that winning profile.

(Also, some suits are made to streamline the silhouette, as in swimming - but even with flattening, no competing athlete has a large bust.)

There are sports where it doesn’t really matter like shooting or or shot put though. Bring large-chested doesn’t mean you can’t excel at any sport just that there are a lot that you don’t have the ideal body your for. And let’s be real most of us don’t have the ideal body type for most sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They start swimming as children. The ones with huge boobs drop out.

This was me, I was a top ten in the DC area as a 10 and under.
- currently also a 38I

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Working hard your chest muscles will make your boobs look smaller. Look at powerlifters or bodybuilders. Once you start making chest muscles working very hard, your breast size shrink.when I began bodybuilding, mine went from C to A.

Swimming doesn’t actually use the pectorals very much and swimmers are not encourage to develop huge pecs because it can interfere with their stroke. Breastrokers use their pecs the most, and that is why guys like Adam Peaty have big ones. Coincidentally Lilly King, also a sprint breastroker, is the first female swimmer that came to my mind with a normal/ample chest. I think PP is probably right - at an elite level, swimmers with big chests have a disadvantage when it comes to increased drag and reduced range of motion with fly, back and free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,

You have the wrong end of the stick. Each sport needs a certain body type, so people without them are weeded out well before they reach the top levels of competition. And in NO sport is a very large bust part of that winning profile.

(Also, some suits are made to streamline the silhouette, as in swimming - but even with flattening, no competing athlete has a large bust.)

There are sports where it doesn’t really matter like shooting or or shot put though. Bring large-chested doesn’t mean you can’t excel at any sport just that there are a lot that you don’t have the ideal body your for. And let’s be real most of us don’t have the ideal body type for most sports.

+1

Extraordinary athletes tend to have extraordinary bodies beyond what one can achieve by simply working out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a female, large chested - 38i. I’ve noticed female swimmers have not been busty or heavy chested but runners and other athletes whom I assume work out just as much or use the same chest muscles like gymnasts, are larger chested than swimmers. It can’t be the swimsuit, or the lack of body fat I have seen that as a reason online. What does swimming do to shrink breast size that other sports do not?

Call me.

[Anonymous]

Are we talking elite level athletes? I can't think of any elite runners or gymnasts with 38i chests. Can you provide an example?

[Anonymous]

In my long running career, here is what I noticed: elite runners largely have no breasts to a modest A/ small B cup.

This is not just a swimming thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my long running career, here is what I noticed: elite runners largely have no breasts to a modest A/ small B cup.

This is not just a swimming thing

Yeah, watching the Olympics tonight and all the runners are pretty flat. Some nothing at all, and at most pretty small boobs.

[Anonymous]

The girls who develop big breasts often drop out of swimming at 12-15. They aren’t good for swimming