Bouncing Breasts: A Credible Area of Scientific Research

[Biciclista]

it's hard to not think of our ancestors (100,000 years ago) and how those women coped. I guess staying really skinny helped.

[Zen]

"Many women have long wondered whether breast movement, especially a lot of it, can affect running form"

This thought has never once crossed my mind.

[ny biker]

"Many women have long wondered whether breast movement, especially a lot of it, can affect running form"

This thought has never once crossed my mind.

I have never had to wonder because it has never been an issue.

[OakLeaf]

I have never had to wonder because it has never been an issue.

I'm small-breasted but it's a definite issue for me. If I don't smash 'em down to nothing, they'll throw my shoulders all over the place.

[KnottedYet]

"Many women have long wondered whether breast movement, especially a lot of it, can affect running form"

This thought has never once crossed my mind.

I don't wonder, I *know* it affects my running form!
36DD... and when they are flopping around untethered, everything alters.

[Zen]

This gives me a mental image of a woman running in a zig-zag line.
LOOK OUT! UNCONTROLLED BOOBAGE!

[OakLeaf]

Oh, now you've put the execution scene from Monty Python's Meaning of Life into my head.

I can just about see those women's shoulders flopping all over the place, and their spines weighting and unweighting. Seriously ...

[GLC1968]

Of course breast movement affects stride! I remember as a teen (a 34B teen, mind you) running down the stairs in the morning (braless) and needing to grab my breasts and hold them to my chest to keep them from throwing me off balance!

I take little to no notice of them with a bra on...but bras are a relatively modern enhancement.

I'd be curious to see if running barefoot would change the results of the above study. They've already shown that humans strike the ground harder with shoes on than they do barefoot. So if women ran without shoes, would the breast movement be decreased as the feet and legs did more to absorb the impact as they should?

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I'd be curious to see if running barefoot would change the results of the above study. They've already shown that humans strike the ground harder with shoes on than they do barefoot. So if women ran without shoes, would the breast movement be decreased as the feet and legs did more to absorb the impact as they should?

When I run around barefoot in the house I still gotta hold the girls.

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it's hard to not think of our ancestors (100,000 years ago) and how those women coped. I guess staying really skinny helped.

Yeah, but I was 140#s at the time of my reduction and was a 34DDD. I was not really overweight, but I still had huge boobs. Losing weight has always been a matter of smaller band proportionate to my cup size. So I could have had 20% bodyfat or less and still been a DDD...I just would have been a 30DDD. Boobs aren't just fat. Mine have always been very dense and cystic.

I think our ancestors didn't do as much running as they did walking. Even modern day hunter/gatherer societies don't outRUN their prey, they injure the prey, then outWALK them. And the guys have always been portrayed as the hunters/runners while the women stayed closer to home with the kids and preparation of what the guys brought home and harvest of veggies and stuff.

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I should add...anyone who has seen photos or videos of modern-day women in regions where bras are not the norm--these girls do NOT have perky boobs. Their poor Cooper's ligaments are pretty much shot all to hell.