After seeing a photo this morning of a movie star (who shall go unnamed) with flab under the jaw, I decided to pass along some of my favorite double chin exercises.
These exercises help firm up not only aging baby boomer chins but also those flopping around on any fat young people reading this.
And these double chin exercises are free, unlike expensive plastic surgery that could go wrong and leave you looking like one of the critters in District Nine. Whoa, yuck!
Enough babbling. Let’s get to the “how to” instructions.
To tighten a double chin, work with some of these exercises several times a day…
- Open your mouth, tilt your head backwards gently, and then slowly slide your bottom lip up and over your top lip.
- Similarly, without tilting your head, move your lower lip upwards as if you were going to try to wipe your nose with it. Oh, gross! But don’t worry, I’ve never met anyone yet who could actually get their lower lip all the way up to their nose.
- This next one is kind of fun… stick your tongue out over and over again, like a lizard on Valium, moving it slowly and leaving it out for a bit and then bringing it back in. Doing these motions with your tongue will strengthen face and mouth muscles and helps to firm up a double chin. An hour of French kissing will accomplish the same thing, or at least that’s what Babet Petit told me back in 1967 on a memorable double date that I remember to this very day.
- Finally, resisting with your neck and head, put the palm of your hand on your forehead and push until you feel your neck and chin tightening.
I hope you paused and tried these exercises while you were reading them. If you didn’t, stop and take a moment or two right now and do so.
Oh, if you have a double chin exercise you’d like to share, click on the comment button below and type away.
Another exercise for double chins that I have done (and it works if you keep it up) is making an exaggerated face as you mouth the sounds of oooooooooooooooooooo and eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Continue both (I try to continue it until I get distracted or forget to continue!)
It’s great for when you are driving!
Hi, do you have other face exercises for sagging eye lids, bags under the eyes, wrinkles and cheeks.
Also running your tongue across the roof of your mouth going from the front of your mouth to the back.
For strengthening my neck area, I tend to get some small weights, around 4kg dumbbells, hold them with each hand by my side and as you do in shrugs, life them to my shoulders and squeeze. At this point, I turn my neck left and right, thus making your double chin work, I often use this manoeuvre daily and have seen great results.