12 Tips For Face Exercises

Face exercises are a natural alternative to restoring and maintaining a youthful appearance. Below are 12 tips to ensure you get the most out of your face exercise routine.

1. Always make sure your face is relaxed before you start.
2. Clean your face and apply a light cream or oil, which helps to minimize any stretching of the skin.
3. Warm up (see below) the muscles before you begin to exercise them, particularly if you are exercising a “problem area” regularly.
4. While you are getting used to the exercises, place a mirror at head height so that you can comfortably follow the moves and watch your face as you exercise.
5. Never pull the skin: in resistance exercises, it is the muscle that must be moved, not the skin.
6. If you feel any pain, stop.  It probably means you are using the wrong muscles.
7. In exercises for muscles that mirror each other on either side of your face, exercise each side equally.  Symmetry is one of the fundamental principles of bodily beauty.
8. Exercise every day if possible: as with other forms of bodily toning, a little regularly is more effective than a bumper session once in a while.
9. Take time over each exercise: there is more benefit in doing one exercise properly than 10 in passing.
10. Relax between exercises.  The relaxation period should be as long as each exercise period.
11. Focus on your breathing and do not hold your breath.
12. Even if you feel tired or in a hurry, follow the “cool down” (see below) routine afterwards.

Warm up.  Standing or sitting upright, extend the arms out to the sides at shoulder height.  Make 10 small circular movements forwards with the whole arm, rotating from the shoulder sockets.  Do the same moving the arms backwards.  Repeat three to five times each way, increasing the size of the circles with each repetition.  This helps loosen up the whole throat and neck area, improving blood flow.

Cool down.  Repeat the procedure for the warm-up, then slump forward with your head almost touching your knees.  The whole upper body should be limp with your arms hanging like pendulums.  Breathe in and out deeply.

For more information on face exercises and proper technique, check out Carole Maggio’s Facercise DVDs.

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Face Exercises Routine, Part 2

Approaching 90, Jack Lalanne still uses face exercises to work the 55 muscles in the face for a natural face lift. Focused on working from the inside out, Jack Lalanne recommends performing facenastics three to four times a week to maintain a youthful look.

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Face Exercise Routine, Part I

If you are as fond as Jack Lalanne as I am, you’ll enjoy his face exercise routines. In this episode, he demonstrates how to firm up the muscles around the eyes, which will result in a tight, youthful looking face. So take five minutes RIGHT NOW, not later, but RIGHT NOW and give it a try!

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The Importance of Skin Care

The natural, self disciplined approach to skin care is the simplest and healthiest way to develop good habits and maintain unique good looks. Doing face exercises regularly, just as you would exercise the rest of your body, can help you gain a more youthful appearance. But this coupled with a daily, preventative skin care regimen is an even more effective beauty formula.

Practicing preventative skin care everyday is absolutely vital to maintain a glowing, youthful complexion. This holds true even for teenagers, as today’s poor cleansing habits or failure to use sunscreen leads to tomorrow’s wrinkles. Your skin is an external organ that’s exposed to environmental factors daily. As such, it ages faster than any other organ.

Environmental factors that affect the skin include the sun, climate and air pollution. Additionally, your emotions, particularly as they relate to stress or lack of sleep, can make your face look strained or tired. That’s not to mention the impact of poor eating habits. Thus, it is crucial to give your skin regular attention and special nurturing throughout life to look its best.

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How Face Exercises Work

Muscles are fibrous masses of tissue that are built of protein. Exercising muscles promotes the thickening and strengthening of muscle fibers. To strengthen a muscle, there must be enough protein in the diet to ensure muscle growth. The goal of exercise is to make the muscle move repeatedly until it tires and the tissue breaks down; after this point rest is essential so that the tissue can regenerate and grow bigger. The more the muscle contracts, the more it grows.

With the right balance of exercise and rest, the muscle adapts to the demands placed on it by growing bigger and stronger. Working a muscle to a heightened percentage of its capacity over a relatively short time will increase its size, strength and ability to contract. By isolating various muscles in the face and performing a repeated range of movements, the muscles are strengthened, regenerated and enlarged.

Check out Jack Lalanne and his quick demonstration of “facenastics.”

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