Most people go in for sports in order to gain excellent health and shape, cultivate a healthy mind and endurance, completely forgetting about the facial muscles (meanwhile there are 57 of them).
The tone of the muscles determines how the skin of the face and neck will look, and the appearance as a whole. The muscles of the face work differently - some are constantly in tension, others are almost constantly relaxed, this leads to a loss of elasticity of muscles and skin, the appearance of wrinkles, flews, double chin, bags under the eyes, drooping of the upper eyelid (ptosis). Gymnastics for the face - face fitness helps to avoid all this.
Basic guidelines for performing anti-aging exercise
There is a huge variety of face fitness programs. The founder of this direction of the beauty industry is considered an American Carol Maggio - a popular master, the author of a book that has long become an authority for women around the world. But in the Russian Federation, Anastasia Burdyug is considered the main specialist in facial gymnastics.
Basically, this is a simple system of exercises for the face and neck. It is enough to perform them for 10 minutes a day and the effect will appear already in the second week. The most important thing: they should be done very carefully, it is better in front of a large mirror.
When doing exercises for the neck, you should be very careful about the area where the thyroid gland is located, so as not to disrupt its work. Do not forget to also monitor your posture. Control facial expressions, often look at yourself in any reflective surfaces.
It is important to believe that the load on the muscles of the face gives a visible result. After all, our brain controls youth and health.
It is useful to study the anatomy of the face to understand how the facial muscles work. Before exercising, you need to cleanse your face well and wash your hands.
The effect of classes and contraindications
- Regular face fitness exercises improve blood microcirculation, which in turn enhances the flow of nutrients to the tissues and the removal of toxins, and this helps to get rid of edema, dull complexion.
- Exercise saturates the tissues with oxygen, as a result of which cosmetics applied immediately after affect the skin much more effectively.
- Face fitness has no age restrictions. By starting gymnastics at a young age, you will strengthen your muscles, thereby preventing the early signs of aging. If you start practicing in adulthood, you will get rid of many of them.
- Among the exercises, it is especially necessary to highlight gymnastics for the frontal, circular muscles of the eye and mouth, chin muscles, for smoothing the nasolabial folds, creases in the eyebrows, anti-edema and anti-fibrotic techniques, lymphatic drainage self-massage.
Contraindications
Face fitness has practically no contraindications, the exception is diseases in the acute stage, pustular rashes on the face, fungal diseases of the facial skin, inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases of the facial and trigeminal nerves, thyroid diseases (only after consulting a doctor), rhinitis, inflammation of the tonsils, tumors , cerebrovascular accident, stage III hypertension. Be beautiful, be fit!
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