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Can exercise make your breasts look bigger and perkier?
According to fitness experts hailed by Kourtney Kardashian, it absolutely can.
A recent workout tutorial posted on the 44 year-old reality star's wellness website Poosh featured one LA-based pilates instructor demonstrating just how this works.
The six and a half-minute "video, made by Shannon Nadj, who runs the Los Angeles-based studio Hot Pilates showed a workout routine that emphasized strengthening the pectoral muscles in the chest to give the appearance of perkier breasts.
Kardashian has said of her fitness routine in the past: 'We’re keeping it simple with short rotations and no equipment required (just your body weight for some of the moves)'
Kardashian-approved pilates instructor Shannon Nadj detailed a series of chest and shoulder strengthening exercises that can help make breasts appear perkier as muscles become stronger
Ms Nadj, founder of the LA-based studio Hot Pilates, "said: ‘Unfortunately, you can’t push yourself up to bigger, perkier boobs. However, you can strengthen your pectoral muscles right behind and around this area.’
The pectoralis major muscle runs from the sternum up and out to the arms and neck, while the pectoralis minor is underneath the major muscles and helps connect the ribs to the shoulder blades.
Breasts are not muscles and therefore are unable to be toned similar to glutes and abs. They are made up of different types of glandular and fatty tissue, so exercises to improve their appearance targets large muscle groups nearby.
Dr Alyssa Dweck, a New York-based OB/GYN, told Well + Good: 'There are no exercises for your breasts per se, particularly the glandular tissue inside, but your typical pectoralis muscle exercises can help.
'Doing these [exercises] can build up enough muscle [to] actually make your breasts a little perkier.'
Fitness experts also agree that maintaining good posture can help strengthen the check and back muscles, translating to perkier and perhaps larger-looking breasts.
Unlike surgery to reverse the ravages of gravity or to move up a cup size, these exercises are not a quick
