How to exercise cheek muscles

The cheek muscles are also very important and are related to our facial expressions. However, as we age, our cheek muscles are gradually stiffening, which has a significant impact on our lives. Although our daily emotions can also exercise our cheek muscles, it is far from enough. So how do we exercise our cheek muscles? Let’s learn more about it through the following introduction.

1. Exercise the upper eyelid levator muscles to prevent the upper eyelid from sagging. With your eyes open, lift your eyebrows as high as possible and hold for 5 seconds. Then keep your eyebrows still and let your upper eyelids move downward to squint your eyes. Stay for 5 seconds and then return to the natural state. Do this 3 times each time.

2. Exercise the muscles at both corners of the mouth. The corners of the mouth of older people often droop in an 8-shaped shape, which makes the facial expression unnatural.

1. Close your lips lightly, roll your upper and lower lips towards the center of your mouth, and then move the corners of your mouth to the left and right, lifting them up for 5 seconds each.

2. Make your lips into a U shape and pull the corners of your mouth as far to the sides as possible for 5 seconds. Do this 5 times each time.

3. Exercise of the zygomatic muscles. Open your mouth slightly vertically and lift the corners of your mouth as far upward as possible until there is space between your teeth and cheek mucosa. Stay for 5 seconds. Do this 3 times each time. Persistent zygomatic muscle training can effectively prevent depressions caused by cheek muscle stiffness and atrophy.

4. Lazy man’s exercise method. For example, blowing up balloons.

Blowing balloons is a very simple and effective exercise that can exercise facial muscles and make the face tighter and more shapely. It can also improve lung capacity, exercise the abdomen, and achieve the goal of losing weight.

Through the above introduction, we know how to exercise the cheek muscles. We can often do this kind of action in our daily life. It is very effective in preventing our cheek muscles from becoming stiff. However, we must pay attention to the method when exercising, mainly to concentrate. We can do it in front of the mirror.