It's not a secret for anyone that sports allow the body to look slim and fit. The facial muscles work in the same way as the muscles of the body. Prevent earlier aging and tighten the oval face will help special rejuvenating gymnastics.
How does gymnastics work?
Mimic facial muscles work daily, when we frown, smile, eat, talk. But the problem is that when making monotonous movements, the same muscles are contracted, which means that the person does not pull up, but overstrains.
Rejuvenating exercises for the face allow you to load muscles that do not participate in the usual movements (chewing, etc.). This allows you to remove the wrinkles and "tighten" the skin in places where it has become flabby.
There are many author's methods of rejuvenating gymnastics for the face. We will give only classical exercises.
General rules
Perform a complex of rejuvenating exercises is useful in the morning and evening, sitting with a straight back on a stiff chair. The procedure takes no more than five minutes. The skin needs to be cleaned beforehand.
Performing exercises, it is important to imagine how muscles work. This advice is given by all coaches - only by presenting the final result of training, it can really be achieved. Therefore, during rejuvenating gymnastics, thoughts about everyday problems will bring to nothing the whole effect. You need to visualize your prettier face and elastic skin - then everything will turn out. It is desirable that your family does not interfere with you.
Gymnastics for the forehead
- Put your hands to the forehead above the eyebrows. Start moving your eyebrows up and down, holding the skin with your hands so that it stretches.
- With the middle and forefinger of both hands, touch the beginning of the eyebrows (near the bridge of the nose). Shift your brows with your fingers to each other.
- Move your ears - imagine imagining that your imaginary glasses are moving over your nose, and you are trying not to let them fall. Ears while this will slightly rise up.
These rejuvenating exercises are repeated 10 times.
Gymnastics for the eyes
- Open your eyes as wide as you can. Hold in this position for 3 to 5 seconds, then relax.
- Press your index fingers to the bone in the upper eyelid (near the outer edge). Open and close your eyes, feeling like stretching the skin under your fingers.
- Point, middle and ring fingers on the bones under the eyes. Raise your eyes as much as possible, while pulling your skin up with your fingers.
Anti-aging exercises for the eyes are also performed 10 times.
Gymnastics for the cheeks
- Collect full cheeks of air, hold it for 3 - 4 seconds, abruptly release.
- Repeat the same, but before exhaling, chase the air from side to side.
- Attach the middle of the palm to the lips (the phalanx is perpendicular to the nose) so that the fingers grasp the cheek. Smile. With your fingers, resist the muscles, as if you want to restrain a smile. Relax. Change your hand (and cheek).
Exercises for the cheeks are done 10 to 15 times.
Gymnastics for the lips
- Round your lips, as if pronouncing "o". The upper lip is pressed to the upper teeth, smile. Repeat 10 times, then again, but at the same time stretch the corners of the lips slightly to the sides. Repeat, counting to thirty.
- Pull your lips with a tube, and then smile sharply, pulling the corners of your lips to the sides, but not exposing your teeth. Repeat 15 times.
- Open your mouth, say "a", "o", "y", "s". Repeat sounds in the same sequence, making sure that your lips do not move.
Gymnastics for the chin
Such rejuvenating exercises are especially effective for women prone to the formation of a second chin.
- Grind your teeth, touch the tip of your tongue alternately to the upper, then to the lower palate. This will feel the tension in the chin. You can repeat the procedure several times during the day.
- Press the jaws to your chin and open your mouth with force. Repeat 5 times.