Stay Young With Facial And Neck Exercises
Not everyone is familiar with facial and neck exercises. Most people know about the benefits of exercising for your body, but they don't know the amazing results of keeping the tone of your face and neck muscles. Aging signals like wrinkles, sagging skin or under eye bags can be improved or prevented with some constant and quick exercises for your face and neck area.
Face fitness can include exercising several areas, from the eyes and forehead to the cheeks, lips, and neck. Although moisturizers and creams may help fight wrinkles, these areas often sag and look tired because the muscle tone is so bad. As a double chin and sagging neck skin often give away a person's age the quickest, exercising these muscles can keep you looking younger and even lighter in weight (as many often mistake a double or triple chin as excess fat, not poor muscle tone).
Here is some useful advice for making your neck and throat look better: A very simple exercise is sitting upright and leaning your head back while looking at the ceiling, next you have to pretend to chew without your mouth closed. You must do this move about 20 times a day to start seeing great results soon.
Another beneficial and effective workout is lying on your back on your bed or a similar surface. Rest your head over the bed's border and slowly bring it up towards your chest for around 10 seconds. After this, relax, take a deep breath and put your head back down over the edge. If you do 5 or more repetitions a day, you will start to see an improvement in the definition and tone of your chin very soon.
If you're starting to see lines around your lips, you can try some of the following exercises to help diminish those lines. Before that, however, if you smoke, stop! Smoking will put those lines there faster than anything else except maybe the sun, so stop smoking while you start these face neck exercises, and improve your looks as well as your health.
One of the easiest exercises for your lips is sitting upright with your head looking to the front. Positioning your lips and teeth together, smile as much as you can and hold it for 5 seconds. While your relax, purse your lips to a kissing position and hold it for another 5 seconds. Do this at least 10 times a day.
There are some instruments made specifically for facial exercising, you should be able to find some for less than 30 dollars if you do a quick online search. Having one of these devices might keep you stay motivated and disciplined to do your face and neck workout on a daily basis. These facial exercisers will help you fight jowl lines and the always feared double chin.
So, don't forget the face, neck exercises as you consider your daily workouts or movements. Since they can be done at your desk or while you're driving, they're much easier to stick to and you will see results in just a few short weeks. Additional exercises and movements are all over the Internet, so take a few minutes to read about and practice some simple moves that will have you looking and feeling better with little or no cost, and just a few minutes a day for obvious benefits.
Jen Hopkins has worked in the anti wrinkle skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about non surgical facelift, and facial exercise. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.
Published January 4th, 2010
Filed in Health
