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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The Birth Of The Sag

Facial muscles are terribly underused. As a result, most people have weak muscles, which invariably sag. And when the muscles sag, the skin attached to them also sags. In fact, slack facial muscles are one of the main causes of sagging and drooping that most of us eventually experience.

Sagging is a result of the inevitable reduction in collagen and elastin – the skin’s connective fibers - as we age. These fibers give skin elasticity and suppleness, and there’s no way to restore these substances. Shrinkage of diminished subcutaneous fat, or fat under the skin, also contributes to sagging. Fat reserves under the skin grow smaller with age, and this can partially account for that mid-life “gaunt” look that hollows out an aging face.

Sagging produces under eye bags and loose folds of skin on the upper eyelids. Lack of exercise makes muscle tissue thin and wasted. Working isolated muscles with face exercises helps restore muscle tissue’s elasticity and tone, making it plump and renewing strength. Like biceps, pectorals or abdominal muscles, facial muscles must be exercised in order to be firm, fit and strong.

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