Talk:Facial toning/Archive 1

Successes of Facial Exercise, Physical Therapy
This article can be improved to be more encouraging about the success that can be acheived using face exercises. While it is true that without applying resistance hypertrophy cannot occur, yet it IS possible to apply resistance to facial muscles. By resting your fingertips on your browbone or around the bone of the eye socket you can apply resistance to the orbiularis oculi and the muscles of the forehead. In another example, you can turn your head to the ceiling while exercising the masseter or the long neck muscles that attach to the face. You can hold open your mouth while pursing your lips to apply targetted resistance to different cheek muscles. There are a number of video's posted to Youtube featuring Jack Lalanne -- check these out for some ways to apply resistance to face muscles. There are some experts in facial exercising, perhaps these could be refered to.

I think the use of the word 'cosmetic' to describe facial toning is not quite right. Facial exercise is a proven therapy for bells palsy, therefore it is not 'cosmetic' since a lasting physical change is made using exercise. It has been claimed that a 30% increase in facial skin thickness can be achieved using facial exercise and I have experienced this level of success myself and in a short time also, within a month, so I feel the article can be more encouraging. You can get rid of "marionnette" lines and increase the thickness of your eyelids, raise your brow height and define your jaw using. A lost ability to whistle can be regained.

http://www.bellspalsy.ws/muscleimage.htm. Look at this map of face muscles. Resistance can be applied to RIS, ZYJ, ZYN, LAO, LLS in a few ways: hold the mouth corners open or apply pressure against the inside of cheeks. For FRO, COR, OCS, press with fingers on the browbone while pressing the muscles against the fingers or away from them (as in closing eyes for instance). I just want to make the point that you really can build up your facial muscles and its not a cosmetic change -- it lasts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.112.55.118 (talk) 17:53, 7 August 2007‎ (UTC)

hypertrophy
Further to the statement in this Talk that hypertrophy can't be induced without resistence - as the later coments imply as regards bels palsy, hypertrophy in any muscle can in fact be induced without resistence, up to a certain point. It is acknowledged that resitance training can take development beyond this.

See: Charles Atlas, isometric contractions, your own evidence, etc.

(my pc wont let my type 4 tildes; apologies) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Texluh1138 (talk • contribs) 22:07, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Application of Major Changes
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