What is a sports bra How to measure for a sports bra
Sports bra belongs to the underwear that needs to be worn on a specific occasion, and its characteristics can be described from two aspects:
1.Function: shock absorption. Provide good support and wrapping, avoid large shaking and swinging of the chest during exercise, and play a protective role in the chest. If you do not wear sports underwear for a long time during exercise, it is easy to cause damage to the chest or sag. Sports bras are also designed with flexibility in mind, so that the underwear can assist the body to fully stretch as far as possible.
2. Comfort: breathable and hygroscopic. It is easy to sweat during exercise, so air permeability and sweat absorption are what sports bras need to have. In the fabric, sports bras are generally less pure cotton fabrics, more fabrics with mesh or quick-drying function, but also consider elasticity, high-elastic fabrics are more conducive to movement, and the stitching process will be as smooth as possible to increase the comfort of wearing.
How to wear the right sports bra for you? Divided into three steps:
1. Measure the chest size to select the size.
Before purchasing, it is best to re-measure your upper and lower chest size data. In most cases, the following chest size data is used as a reference for size selection. You can consult with the business specifically.
2. Confirm the intensity of your exercise.
The intensity of different sports is not the same, and the degree of vibration of the chest is not the same, which requires us to choose the corresponding sports bra according to the intensity of the exercise we participate in. Some common exercise intensities are divided as follows:
High intensity exercise: aerobic dance or aerobics, running, badminton, volleyball, basketball, football, etc.
Medium intensity exercise: cycling, walking, race walking, climbing, climbing, aerobic pedaling, etc.
Low-intensity exercise: yoga, Pilates, walking, golf, body dance, etc.
3. Try it on.
Sports bra is best to try on the upper body, everyone's body, chest type is not the same, the feeling of wearing is not consistent. Put the sports underwear on the upper body, feel whether it fits the body, and then do some running to see how the underwear is wrapped, whether the support force is enough to absorb shock, and the chest will not have obvious shaking and pain.
Sports underwear is close fitting, there is a small test method: you can insert 2 fingers under the shoulder strap, see whether it can slide slowly between the shoulder strap and the skin, if too tight or too loose is not suitable.