Flabby skin around and under the chin can add years to your appearance. However, as with any area of the body, exercise may offer a toned, healthy appearance that takes years off the face. Learning a few basic chin and neck exercises can help reduce the appearance of excess skin or fat around the neck. You can also adapt the exercises work muscles in the jaw, neck and lower face to help firm and develop muscle tone, tighten excess skin and provide a leaner, younger looking profile.
Tilting and Chewing
The chewing motion can help work the muscles on the underside of your chin. Stand or sit in a comfortable position and then tilt the head back until you can see the ceiling. Close your lips but don't press them tightly together. Pretend you're chewing gum, keeping your chin pointed toward the ceiling. You'll feel the muscles and skin on the underside of the jaw tighten as you perform this exercise. Chew about 20 times and then lower the head and relax. You can do this exercise several times a day.
Lower Jaw Workout
You can feel this exercise in the entire lower jaw and at the jaw joint, toning muscles that will help reduce accumulation of fat is this area. Look up at the ceiling and open your mouth as far as you can. Stick out your tongue as far as you can, trying to curl it downward to touch your chin, below your lower lip. Hold the position for a count of three and then pull your tongue back in and close your mouth. Keeping the chin pointing toward the ceiling, repeat this move two or three times.
Frontal Neck Exercise
Exercise the front of your neck to help support your chin and smooth the chin line. Stand or sit in a comfortable position and tilt the head back, suggests Shape Your Face, a facial exercise website. As you gaze at the ceiling, move your tongue so that it's pressing against the palate, or upper surface of your mouth. Press hard and hold that position for several seconds. Keeping the tongue pressed to the roof of the mouth, lower the head until your chin is parallel to the floor, and hold that position for a count of five. Relax and release the tongue. You can repeat this exercise three to five times, several times a day, feeling the exercise all along the front of the neck.
Throat Exercise
Work the muscles along the sides and undersides of the jaw and all along the front of the neck to help the chin and neck area. Lean the head back so that your face looks up at the ceiling. Now, literally kiss the ceiling, suggests Dermaxime, a skin care line that also promotes exercise to help reduce sagging skin. Put the lips together, pucker up and kiss. Hold the kiss for a count of two, and then relax, but maintain the pucker. Kiss the ceiling about 20 times. You can do this exercise several times a day as well.
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