Face, Neck Exercises Are Inexpensive And Beneficial
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 are some tips that will make your neck and throat look better: A very simple move consists on sitting upright and leaning your head back while looking at the ceiling, then you have to pretend to chew without opening your mouth. You should do this move about 20 times a day, you'll be amazed at how soon you'll start to see a general improvement.
Another beneficial and effective exercise consists on lying on your back on your bed. Rest your head over the bed's edge and with a slow movement bring it up towards your body for around 10 seconds. Then relax and put your head back down over the border. By doing 5 or more repetitions a day, you will start to see a general improvement in the definition and tone of your neck and chin very soon.
To avoid getting lines around your lips, the first thing you have to do is quit smoking if you do. Another way to prevent getting these wrinkles is not exposing yourself to the sun and always using sunblock. If you stop smoking and do these facial and neck exercises, this will improve both your looks and your health at the same time.
So, for the lips, one of the easiest exercise is to sit upright with your head looking straight ahead. With your lips and teeth together, make a big smile and hold for 5 seconds. Then, as your relax, pucker up to a pointed kiss and hold that for 5 seconds. Repeat at least 10 times daily.
With a quick online search, you may also find a facial exerciser that's been developed specifically for helping you tone and exercise your face and neck. These are typically inexpensive (less than $30) and may help keep your more disciplined as there's an 'apparatus' to use. Some popular searches will yield products to fight sagging skin, jowl lines (creases below the cheeks, from the nose to the sides of the mouth), and the ever-dreaded double chin.
When you do your daily workouts, don't forget your face and neck area! These exercises can be done in lots of places like your office or while you are driving, they are easy to stick to and you will start noticing results in only a few weeks. Employ a few minutes to search for more movements and exercises on the Internet, they should help your feel and look better for little to no cost, and the results you will see will be totally worth it.
Jen Hopkins has worked in the anti wrinkle skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about non surgical face lift, and face exercise. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.
Published January 4th, 2010
