Exercising Your Face
Your face is almost certainly a part of your body that you have never considered exercising.
But it does need it, especially is you want to open up your features, remove the lines from your skin and give yourself a clearer and younger looking expression.
Exercising your face is all about using the facial muscles that you use the least in your everyday life, because this strengthens these muscles and therefore your face becomes more flexible and expressive.
Before starting these exercises, you should take a good, long look at yourself in the mirror to decide which exercises you should focus on personally. If, for example, you are by nature a frowner, then do not bother with the frowning exercise. Instead, focus on smiling or winking, for example.
Here are four extremely easy and painless facial exercises that you can start putting into practice right now:
* Smiling: To paraphrase a line from Casablanca, ‘you know how to smile, don’t cha?’ If not, here is how you do so to gain maximum exercise benefit from smiling.
With your head in an upright but relaxed pose, clench your cheeks upwards while drawing your lips wide over your teeth at the same time.
Hold the position for a few seconds, then relax and repeat the process. Do this 15-20 times per session, and try to do it at least once every day.
Try smiling at other people more often as well. You might be surprised how much better it makes you feel spiritually, and the responses that you get will more than likely justify making the small effort involved.
* Frowning: In this exercise, you start with your head upright but relaxed, only this time you tense up the muscles in your forehead and draw your eyebrows down by doing so. Hold the resultant frown for a few seconds and then release, and do the exercise 15-20 times per session.
This is an exercise that you should only do in moderation, as overusing these muscles by doing this exercise too regularly or often can lead to the development of unwanted facial lines and wrinkles.
* Winking: With your head in the (by now) traditional upright and relaxed position, turn your head slightly to one side so that one eye is pushed slightly forward. Close the more prominent eye, and hold it closed for a second or two. Open the eye again, and repeat the operation 15-20 times with the same eye.
Then, turn your head the other way so that the opposite eye is to the fore, and repeat the whole process with that eye.
Once again, you probably do not want to overdo this particular exercise, as doing so can lead to the formation (or acceleration) of the fine creases and wrinkles at the corners of the eyes that are commonly known as ‘laughter lines’.
Also, I would recommend that this is an exercise that you do in a private place, because doing this in public or with people that you do not know around you might give them completely the wrong idea!
* Tongue pulling: This is an exercise that you should only do in private or with people that you know. While winking at strangers could get you a lot of unwanted attention, this one is far more likely to get you a smack in the face or a punch on the nose, so do be careful where and when you choose to practice this exercise!
Start from the relaxed but upright head position and purse your lips slightly. Then, push your tongue out of your mouth (yes, exactly like you used to do when you were a kid) and then retract it.
Assuming that you do not regularly go around pulling your tongue out at people, this is an action that the muscles at the back of your tongue will rarely undertake. While your tongue is used to moving up and down and from side to side inside your mouth while you are eating or talking, this ‘pushing back to front’ is using the muscles in a way to which they are not accustomed.
Repeat this exercise 15-20 times per session.
Related posts:
- Sensible Precautions Before You Start Exercising Exercise is good for you, but you need to make...
- How Much Walking Should I Do? The answer to that question is, the more walking you...
- Stay Healthy With Exercise Even If You Don’t Have Much Time It is a well-recognized fact that regular physical exercise supplemented...
- Working Out in the House and Garden In the final analysis, exercise is nothing more than making...
- Walking With MBT Shoes It is a known fact that our day-to-day activities...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Comments
No comments yet.