I am a firm believer in exercise but tend to follow a more sedentary pursuit of happiness.
My gym is a recliner chair that encourages naps but requires repetitive ab crunches and push-ups to maneuver up and down for bathroom runs.
Is that enough exercise? I wonder.
Probably not.
In an attempt to assuage guilt, I have added a challenging exercise routine.
Now do not laugh!
Did you know there are more than 50 muscles in the face?
I have been doing these new exercises for 2 whole days and swear I’m feeling the aches and pains of using all those unused muscles.
But the first step is to define problem areas whereby one is to put a mirror on a table and look down into it to determine what is sagging.
They didn’t say anything about the whole face sagging!
Eyes, cheeks, chin (double), wrinkles, upper face, middle face, between the eyes – all crinkly, wrinkly, sagging unused facial muscles!
Fortunately, I am lying face up in my recliner.
And fortunately, I can do the facial exercises in the privacy of the bathroom.
Anywhere else and I am afraid Bill would collapse in laughter as I perform:
Exercise # 15 – Tensing the wings of my nose downward
Or
Exercise #19 – Snarling like a dog
Note the clipped pages of photos and instructions for all the different sagging areas. Little did I know I would be clipping all the pages.
But I swear my face looks younger in just two days! And a friend just said, “You look good in white.” Surely she meant, “Did you get a face lift?”
Ahhhh! Managing a healthy lifestyle is the way to immortality.
I wonder if I can do these facial exercises in the recliner!
Note:
The book is The Five Minute Facial Workout, by Catherine Pez
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