Our faces shapeshift to convey emotions.
You use twenty muscles to animate your words and reflect your thoughts.
They work together when you breathe or eat, and weaken as you age.
This thread explores your facial muscles and gives exercises to keep them active over time.
You use twenty muscles to animate your words and reflect your thoughts.
They work together when you breathe or eat, and weaken as you age.
This thread explores your facial muscles and gives exercises to keep them active over time.
The strength of the connection between your brain and your facial muscles fades as the years pass.
Basic motions like chewing and opening your mouth will fatigue you faster when they weaken.
Recent social constraints have likely worsened this process regardless of your age.
Basic motions like chewing and opening your mouth will fatigue you faster when they weaken.
Recent social constraints have likely worsened this process regardless of your age.
A group of adults aged 60-99 recently benefited from one week of facial expression exercises and tongue training.
They trained the muscles that closes the eyes and lips, along with the ones that assist swallowing and compress the cheeks.
The program improved their oral health.
They trained the muscles that closes the eyes and lips, along with the ones that assist swallowing and compress the cheeks.
The program improved their oral health.
These 4 exercises train more than your muscles.
They spark your facial nerve and your brain stem, the command center of many unconscious tasks, from alertness to posture, breathing, and heart rate.
You stimulate the connection and increase blood flow to your brain and face.
They spark your facial nerve and your brain stem, the command center of many unconscious tasks, from alertness to posture, breathing, and heart rate.
You stimulate the connection and increase blood flow to your brain and face.
Exercise 1/ The muscle that closes your eyes the Orbicularis oculi.
-Take 3 seconds to close both eyes gently
-Tighten the squeeze for 3-seconds
-Repeat 5 to 10x
I learned from @posture_pro that an imbalance in this muscle makes one eye seem smaller than the other.
-Take 3 seconds to close both eyes gently
-Tighten the squeeze for 3-seconds
-Repeat 5 to 10x
I learned from @posture_pro that an imbalance in this muscle makes one eye seem smaller than the other.
Exercise 2/ The muscle that compresses your cheeks, the Buccinator.
- Compress your cheeks, as to make a fish mouth.
- Hold for 3-seconds then release.
- Repeat 5-10x
Try the movement without moving your lips to make it more challenging.
- Compress your cheeks, as to make a fish mouth.
- Hold for 3-seconds then release.
- Repeat 5-10x
Try the movement without moving your lips to make it more challenging.
Exercise 3/ The muscle that closes your lips and protrudes them forward, the Orbicularis Ori.
- Start with opened lips
- Take 3-seconds to close your lips
- Hold for 3-seconds
- Protrude them forward like in a peck kiss
- Hold for 3s
- Repeat 5-10x
- Start with opened lips
- Take 3-seconds to close your lips
- Hold for 3-seconds
- Protrude them forward like in a peck kiss
- Hold for 3s
- Repeat 5-10x
Exercise 4/ One of your main smile muscle, your Zygomaticus major.
- Smile as wide as possible
- Hold for 3-seconds
- Take 3-seconds to close your smile
- Repeat 5-10x
- Smile as wide as possible
- Hold for 3-seconds
- Take 3-seconds to close your smile
- Repeat 5-10x
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