Can you wear a body-shaping garment while exercising? What are the hazards of wearing a body-shaping garment while exercising?

Wearing a body shaper while exercising has a great impact on our body. It is generally not recommended for everyone to wear it. Not only will it affect perspiration, but it will also have a certain impact on the effect of exercise. Let's learn more about it.

It is best not to wear shapewear when exercising.

Although body shaping garments can have a shaping effect and even restrain the body and control appetite to achieve the purpose of weight loss, you cannot blindly rely on body shaping garments to lose weight. Moreover, if you wear body shaping garments incorrectly, such as wearing them while exercising, this will not only fail to lose weight, but will easily affect your health.

1. Affect blood circulation

During exercise, the muscles throughout the body have a great demand for blood and oxygen. Wearing a body-shaping garment will cause pressure on the muscles, which will affect the blood flow and oxygen supply, affecting the effect of exercise, and will also lead to breathing difficulties, chest tightness, and even the risk of fainting during exercise.

2. Affects sweat dissipation

The human body will secrete a lot of sweat during exercise. When the body is tightly wrapped by a body shaper, the sweat on the skin cannot be dissipated in time, and the skin is wet, which not only makes people feel uncomfortable, but also the parts wrapped by the body shaper will become fungal breeding bases. A large number of bacteria grow, which can easily lead to skin redness, itching and other problems; if the private parts are infected by bacteria, urinary and reproductive system inflammation will also occur, which is extremely harmful to health.

3. Causes lower limb edema

When exercising while wearing a body shaper, the muscles and internal organs are over-compressed, which affects blood circulation and muscle activity. In addition to making people feel short of breath, it can also easily lead to obstruction of blood return in the lower limb veins, causing symptoms such as lower limb edema and varicose veins.

Do not wear shapewear for more than 8 hours a day.

Body shaping garments are made by adding elastic yarn to improve the elasticity of underwear. At the same time, the local tightness is handled properly during weaving to make the underwear shape fit the human body curve, and the contraction force is increased in some parts to achieve the effect of correcting body shape and shaping the body. Experts point out that some women currently use body shaping garments as slimming garments. In fact, the main function of body shaping garments is to adjust the distribution of body fat and make the curves beautiful rather than to reduce weight.

Harm 1: Squeezing breasts can cause breast cancer

Shapewear generally achieves breast enhancement by squeezing both breasts towards the middle, which tightens the breasts and affects blood circulation in the breast area, which results in the body toxins not being excreted in time and easily induces breast diseases. In addition, shapewear is mostly made of fiber products with poor air permeability, which is more likely to cause breast eczema and nipple itching. Adolescent girls often wear tight underwear, which can cause breast dysplasia and nipple retraction.

Harm 2: Reproductive system disorders

Wearing tight clothes and pants frequently, because the crotch is tight around the buttocks, sweat, vaginal secretions, leucorrhea, menstrual blood, etc. cannot be dissipated in the humid environment, which can irritate the vulva and cause vulvitis; if the skin is worn and causes dermatitis and bacterial reproduction, retrograde infection can induce vaginitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, urethral infection, etc. Wearing tight clothes and pants will affect the development of breasts and buttocks of adolescent girls, which will bring disadvantages to future childbirth and breastfeeding.