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(Semi-urgent) Is it safe to bind while playing my clarinet? I am using double sports bras and I am playing for about an hour a day.
Lee says:
Can I bind while doing x?
Yes
- On a plane
- At school
- Doing normal routine stuff that won’t raise your heart rate
- While smoking or vaping
- While taking a walk or light bike ride
No
- While playing an instrument that requires breath
- While singing (singing in the car is okay, choral singing or any singing where you need good breath control is not)
- While exercising
- While moshing/screaming/dancing at a concert
- While sleeping
- While swimming (unless you have a specific swimming binder)
- On roller coasters/thrill rides
- While getting a first tattoo
- When you’re sick (if you’re coughing or having a hard time breathing)
- During marching band
- During gym class
- When you’re visiting somewhere that is much hotter than temperatures that you are used to (vacations)
- When you have a chest/torso injury, are recovering from improper binding, etc.
What are the general safety rules of binding?
- Don’t sleeping with your binder on at night
- Don’t do any vigorous exercising in a binder- no things that get your heartrate up and make you breathe heavily and sweat
- Don’t bind for more than 12 hours maximum, 8 hours to be safer
- Take breaks if possible
- Break in a binder - don’t go straight to 8 hours of use
- Never bind too small, use the right size (if between sizes, go up)
- Never use ACE bandages or tape
- Take it off if you’re experiencing pain
- Don’t bind when you’re sick with a cough
- Do not double bind! Don’t wear a binder and another binder on top, or a binder and a compression sports bra. Two sports bras are okay though.
- Binding with two sports bras is still binding, and the same rules about wearing a binder apply to sports bra binding!
Posted on September 28, 2017 with 855 notes
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