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FigureSkater
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As suggested before, weight training and adding some muscle in the upper body will really help give you a more even appearance. Also try swimming and water fitness--both excellent sources of cardio that provide resistance to help build muscle--especially swimming laps because it really works your upper body. (And even people who don't consider themselves good swimmers--i.e. aren't going to jump in the pool and swim a bunch of laps easily--still get just as good a workout from swimming.)
I'm lucky enough to have an hourglass figure (which also isn't fun all the time...I can't find pants big enough in the hips and small enough in the waist), but from years of figure and speed skating, I had no upper body strength/muscle but huge muscles in my legs and a big butt...which made me look a little more on the pear shaped side. I had always been a good swimmer but never competed until a knee injury that put me off the ice for almost a year lead me to take up swimming more competitively (I was on my college's synchronized swimming team), and that along with weight training made my body much, much more symmetrical.
I'm lucky enough to have an hourglass figure (which also isn't fun all the time...I can't find pants big enough in the hips and small enough in the waist), but from years of figure and speed skating, I had no upper body strength/muscle but huge muscles in my legs and a big butt...which made me look a little more on the pear shaped side. I had always been a good swimmer but never competed until a knee injury that put me off the ice for almost a year lead me to take up swimming more competitively (I was on my college's synchronized swimming team), and that along with weight training made my body much, much more symmetrical.
