In honor of turkey day I thought I would share some exercises I ran across and saved earlier in the year that seem fitting for turkey necks or multiple chins! Have fun; these are easy to do and they seem to help if you are losing weight in conjunction with doing the exercise.
Press your palm to your forehead for 10 seconds while resisting with your head and neck. You should feel your neck and chin tighten. Repeat the movement with your hand on the back of your head, then on each side, with your hand cupped over your ear.
Lift your chin up and open and close your mouth as if you’re chewing. Feel the muscles under your jaw and down the front of your neck tighten.
Sit up straight in an armless chair, holding the bottom of the chair with your hands at your sides, tilt your head back and alternately close your mouth pushing your chin forward and then open your mouth as wide as you can.
Lift your chin slightly upward. With flat point of index and middle fingers, press against the indentation made by the two upper nodules of the larynx located at the curve from chin to neck. Do this two or three times a day. Do not be concerned in the beginning as to the precise location of pressure. You will discover this through practice. Regard finger pressure as the resistance against the working muscles. Now press your back teeth firmly together and while maintaining this position, press the tip of your tongue against the inside of lower front teeth (gum line) increasing pressure with the tip of tongue in 10 or more gradual and definite steps. (Count to 10.) Hold end position of pressure for 6 seconds (count slowly to six). Release muscle work for 10 gradual steps (count to 10). Remove finger resistance. Repeat 4 more times.
Slap under the chin with the back of your hand. When slapping, start gently and build up speed gradually. Do this for a couple of minutes each time, two or three times a day.
Exercise the muscle called the platysma (its function is to pull down the corners of the mouth and pull down the jawbone). Open your mouth wide, and then pull up your bottom lip over your bottom teeth. Move your jaw up and down as if you're trying to scoop something up with it (imagine the movement of the shovel on a digger scooping up earth or debris on a building site). Perform 10 repetitions of this exercise.
— Holly
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