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20-week Study: Facial exercises help middle-aged appear more youthful

57 points by DrScump 8y ago

mromanuk 8y ago
Is a known fact that exercise for the body improves tone, look, etc but workout for your face is a different matter? weird.
- forkLding 8y ago
  It depends and needs research, after all lots of abs exercises havent shown to significantly reduce abdominal fat in comparison with any general exercise like running
  - n4r9 8y ago
    More generally, it's impossible to target any individual area for fat reduction.
    - mromanuk 8y ago
      yep, there is a lot of misconception with exercise and fat burning.
- miranda_rights 8y ago
  I guess I was a little surprised. I make a slight effort to avoid furrowing my brows to prevent wrinkles, for example, and this study shows a benefit to making certain expressions. I still am curious if they would make certain wrinkles worse in the long term.
montalbano 8y ago
Reminds me of this slightly comical video I saw ages ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSA-1tZZTPM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSA-1tZZTPM maybe was just ahead of her time!
Hnrobert42 8y ago
I can’t imagine carving out 30 minutes each day for face-sculpting exercises. I grew bored just reading the descriptions of the exercises.
cafard 8y ago
But when my glass shows me myself indeed/Beated and chop't with tanned antiquity.... (Sonnet 62, https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/shakespeares-sonnets-sin-self-love-possesseth-all-mine-eye https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/shakespeares-sonnets-s...)
Nihilartikel 8y ago
It's not really related to the story, but training my facial muscles has been a low-commitment hobby for me. I noticed that I could do the 'Elvis Presley' lip curl naturally on the right side of my mouth, but not the left at all, which I found strangely irritating. So, for the next week or two I spent maybe 5 minutes after brushing my teeth practicing in the mirror. First scrunching up my entire lip, and spending time deliberately trying to get better isolation on my left side. It took a little while, but now I can curl my left top lip with barely a twitch of the muscles on the right side. Carrying on with this, I've gone on to train to wiggle my ears, arch eyebrows independently(still can only do it on the left side), and to deliberately control my orbicularis oculi muscles which comes in really handy to make a posed smile look warm and natural.. Or to express subtle skepticism/ disgust by flexing one in isolation of the other. I'm guessing actors and comedians probably do this a lot; haven't bothered to Google it. I don't think its so much about strengthening of the facial muscles as it is about paving the nerve pathways. Like physical therapy.
- Scaevolus 8y ago
  Flaring your nostrils is another fun trick, and seems to be linked to inhaling and throat movements.
eternalban 8y ago
Thousands-of-years study by the Chinese confirms the results.
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syspec 8y ago
Exercise descriptions are so hard to follow, i couldn't follow these. I imagine if there was a simple gif, i would immediately get it.

57 points by DrScump 8y ago

Is a known fact that exercise for the body improves tone, look, etc but workout for your face is a different matter? weird.

forkLding 8y ago
It depends and needs research, after all lots of abs exercises havent shown to significantly reduce abdominal fat in comparison with any general exercise like running
- n4r9 8y ago
  More generally, it's impossible to target any individual area for fat reduction.
  - mromanuk 8y ago
    yep, there is a lot of misconception with exercise and fat burning.
miranda_rights 8y ago
I guess I was a little surprised. I make a slight effort to avoid furrowing my brows to prevent wrinkles, for example, and this study shows a benefit to making certain expressions. I still am curious if they would make certain wrinkles worse in the long term.

montalbano 8y ago

Reminds me of this slightly comical video I saw ages ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSA-1tZZTPM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSA-1tZZTPM maybe was just ahead of her time!

Hnrobert42 8y ago

I can’t imagine carving out 30 minutes each day for face-sculpting exercises. I grew bored just reading the descriptions of the exercises.

cafard 8y ago

But when my glass shows me myself indeed/Beated and chop't with tanned antiquity.... (Sonnet 62, https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/shakespeares-sonnets-sin-self-love-possesseth-all-mine-eye https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/shakespeares-sonnets-s...)

Nihilartikel 8y ago

It's not really related to the story, but training my facial muscles has been a low-commitment hobby for me. I noticed that I could do the 'Elvis Presley' lip curl naturally on the right side of my mouth, but not the left at all, which I found strangely irritating. So, for the next week or two I spent maybe 5 minutes after brushing my teeth practicing in the mirror. First scrunching up my entire lip, and spending time deliberately trying to get better isolation on my left side. It took a little while, but now I can curl my left top lip with barely a twitch of the muscles on the right side. Carrying on with this, I've gone on to train to wiggle my ears, arch eyebrows independently(still can only do it on the left side), and to deliberately control my orbicularis oculi muscles which comes in really handy to make a posed smile look warm and natural.. Or to express subtle skepticism/ disgust by flexing one in isolation of the other. I'm guessing actors and comedians probably do this a lot; haven't bothered to Google it. I don't think its so much about strengthening of the facial muscles as it is about paving the nerve pathways. Like physical therapy.

Scaevolus 8y ago
Flaring your nostrils is another fun trick, and seems to be linked to inhaling and throat movements.

eternalban 8y ago

Thousands-of-years study by the Chinese confirms the results.

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syspec 8y ago

Exercise descriptions are so hard to follow, i couldn't follow these. I imagine if there was a simple gif, i would immediately get it.