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Have you ever tried facial exercises to make your face thinner?

Asked by rockfan (14632points) August 1st, 2016 from iPhone

There’s a facial exercise where you say “X” and “O” over and over and it’s supposed to make your face thinner over the next few weeks. I’m wondering if anyone has ever tried this. Has it worked?

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jca's avatar

Sounds like a load of bullshit.

zenvelo's avatar

Exercises don’t target specific areas for thinning.

You can get a thinner face in four to eight weeks by cutting your caloric intake to 1,750 Calories per day. Will make your cheeks thinner too.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

^^ & Regular jogging or aerobics will thin your face very nicely.

lugerruger's avatar

^as they said, exercises do not actually target specific areas (unless it’s for muscle growth.)
If you want one thin area then the rest of your body will have to get thin too. So, sadly something this simple wouldn’t work.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, I often tense up my neck muscles, especially under the chin. Any exercise is simply tensing and relaxing. Why wouldn’t it work for the chin?

After my two pregnancies I started doing 80 – 100 sit ups a day. I had the flattest tummy ever, well into my late 40., I didn’t necessarily work out the rest of my body in any particular exercise, either.
I quit doing them about 8 years ago and I’m getting disgusted! So in the last week I’ve started doing lazy, funky tummy crunches while watching TV. I’ll lean forward on the couch, kind of pick my feet up off the floor, then tense my stomach muscles down tight, and hold them for a count of 20. I’ll do that 4 or 5 times an evening, just whenever. It’s easier to do than forcing yourself to sigh sit down on the floor, then count sigh…SO boring. I’d devise different ways to count just to take my mind off of the tedium.

Anyway, since I started that lazy tummy crunch a week ago, there is a difference already, a difference in my overall strength.

Go for it. Take some pics now, and again in a month.

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

^^Locally, these exercises will improve circulation at best, but will not tap into stored energy (fat) specifically in those areas. The energy is drawn systemically. Think about it. The way some people jabber on and on with all the facial expressions… their faces would be skin and bone if this worked. They’d all look like Nancy Reagan. Trump would be a talking skull.

Dutchess_III's avatar

There is a difference between someone who gets up and down out of a chair all day, using their legs, and someone who systematically and deliberately develops those muscles by pressing increasing weights with their legs. By the same token, people who speechify a lot may work their jaw muscles a lot, but not necessarily other muscles in their face (my husband would have the most chiseled face in the world if this was true!)

I just practiced the exercise I do to keep my chin tight (I have very little fat,) and at the same time thought of what kind of emotion I would have to have for that to happen in the course of a normal conversations, or speech. The first one that came to my mind was rage. I looked up a pic, and yup. That’s it. I do the exercises randomly, about 3 times a day. I am certainly not enraged and cant’ remember the last time I was, but I am working those particular muscles on purpose, and “excessively,” on a daily basis. I can only tell you my experience, but if I go a time without doing them, and pick them back up, I can feel the tension in my neck and chin afterward, for a long time. Just like if I go jogging when I’m not used to it, my legs ache and feel tight the next day. I keep it up, and after a while they don’t ache any more. They’re just tight. My shoulders hurt today from moving about 500 pounds of shit yesterday, which I’m no longer used to doing!

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