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Level: BEGINNING
Area Worked: UNDER CHIN & JAWLINE
Type of Excercise: ISOTONIC |
Some
body parts look better in pairs, but the chin is not
one of them. If you master this exercise, you will have
no need for a surgical lift to correct your double chin.
The key here is that resistance is applied in both directions:
while you open your mouth and while you close it. This
wakes up those sleepy, little-used muscles under the
chin.
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Tip: During
this exercise, your jaw should be tense at all times,
resisting in both directions.
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Note:
Before doing this exercise, it is essential that you read "Getting
Started" and have mastered the "Soft
Face" Position.
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Hand
Alignment
With
your palms facing each other, bend your fingers at a ninety-degree
angle, overlapping them to form a "hand table." Now hold your hands
under your chin.
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Facial Alignment
Smile
wide, opening your mouth and extending your lower jaw forward.
Stretch
your tongue toward the top of your mouth. Curl it back so that
the bottom of your tongue touches the roof of your mouth.
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Resistance
Use
your hand table to resist the downward movement of your jaw as
you open your mouth. Then resist with your jaw as you push upward
with your hand table to close your mouth.
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Muscular
Contraction
Open
your mouth, forcing your jaw downward against your hand table.
Resisting
with your jaw, slowly push your hand table up to close your mouth.
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Hold
each position (open and closed) for five seconds.
Release.
Repeat
the exercise until your muscles feel the burn. |
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Muscle Diagram
These are the muscles you should feel when you are doing this excercise.
A. Lateral pytergoid
B. Medial pytergoid
C. Supra-hyoid
region:
Digastric
Stylo-hyoid
Mylo-hyoid
Genio-hyoid
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