00:00Many of us will experience this double
00:04chin. Part of gravity, part of aging, there's one main muscle that we're
00:08going to strengthen. It's called the platysma.
00:11It's the long sheath of muscle that goes down the neck.
00:14When you strengthen this muscle, this will really help the development of the
00:18muscles to keep it nice and toned. Helping that double chin. These
00:22exercises are really going to do a lot of good for
00:25you. I'm going to show you a multitude of different exercises.
00:28You can pick the ones that you think are best for you. You're going to do about
00:3212 repetitions, two sets of each of these
00:36exercises. That's your homework. I will show you a couple repetitions of
00:40each exercise so you can understand the basis of what
00:44you need to do on your own time. First, I'd like you to take one hand put
00:48it underneath the neck area on that platysma muscle.
00:50Where that double chin is, first thing I'd like you to do is take your tongue and
00:54push it up against your heart palette. Hold it for three seconds
00:56and feel these muscles contract. Push it up. These muscles should get nice and
01:01tight under here. Relax it. Push it up again. You'll feel these
01:04muscles get nice and contracted and tight.
01:07Push it up again. After you relax it, three seconds.
01:11Awesome. Keep your hand right here. What I'd like you to do now is take your jaw
01:15and jut it forward. As you jut forward, you'll feel these muscles contract. Hold
01:20it three seconds. Relax. Jut it forward. All the way forward.
01:26Three seconds. Relax. One more time. Three seconds. Jut it forward.
01:32All right. Feel those muscles contract. That's a great exercise. Another
01:38very powerful exercise is kissing the ceiling or kissing the sky.
01:43Keep that hand or finger on one of your hands underneath the neck as you can
01:47feel these muscles contract. But in order to kiss the sky or the
01:51ceiling, first we need to look up. As we look up,
01:56you're going to pucker your lips as if you're kissing that sky or ceiling.
02:01Really pucker your lips. Let's do it. Three seconds.
02:04Good. Relax the lips. Three seconds again. Kiss the sky. Come on.
02:11Keep kissing the sky. Feel those muscles contract. Relax.
02:15And again, kiss the sky again. As you look up,
02:18those muscles should really contract and tighten.
02:21Awesome. And for the purpose of this video, I really want you to
02:24hold on to that neck area while you're doing all the exercises so you can
02:27understand the direct correlation of these muscles
02:31that you're working and how you're doing it
02:33with what's going on in the neck, making sure it's contracting every single time.
02:37But when you do them at home, you don't have to hold your neck.
02:41Now remember when you're a young child, you would ask
02:44people to say to you or you would say to them, you do the fish look like this. You
02:48suck your cheeks in like this and bring your lips out like this.
02:53And as you suck your cheeks in and as you make that fish,
02:57that little fish thing with your lips, that's really working that platysma
03:01muscle. Let's go ahead and do it. Suck your cheeks in as you
03:06kiss forward.
03:10You're going to hold that three seconds. You're relaxed. Try it one more time.
03:14You should really feel that muscle contract. Beautiful.
03:17And in this exercise, I want you to do some cheek resistance.
03:21This is very powerful because we're not only working these muscles, but other
03:24muscles around as we are in the other exercises as well.
03:28It may be harder for you to feel your neck while you're doing it, but I think
03:31you can if you take these fingers of both hands,
03:33put it on your cheek. Okay, so what you're going to do is
03:36you're going to push up on your cheek like this.
03:39Take your thumbs, put it on your neck area so you can feel the muscle.
03:42But as you push up on your cheek, as you're pushing in, but you're pushing up,
03:46I want you to voluntarily contract your cheek muscles
03:49and bring your cheek down. And while doing so, you'll probably notice your
03:54lips may come down as well. Watch what I do.
03:59And while you're pushing down, we're really isolating all these muscles under
04:03the jaw area. Let's do it again. Put your fingers on
04:06your cheeks. Okay, take the thumbs underneath the
04:10neck so you can feel the muscles contract. Push up, and now I want you to bring it
04:15down just using your facial muscles as you pull it down with resistance of
04:19your fingers. Let's go three seconds. Good. You should really feel those muscles
04:24contract. Relax. One more time. Push up and bring it
04:28down with your contraction of the muscles, pulling it down,
04:33and feel those muscles really, really contract. And a little quick thing you
04:37can do to end up these exercises is stimulate these muscles
04:42under the jaw. Just taking your fingers and just
04:46tapping it gentle and doing that for about 20 seconds. That will bring
04:50hyperemia, more blood supply, more circulation, more nutrition
04:54that will help stimulate the area even more. But there's two things
04:58you must do to help that double chin. One is to hydrate. Drink your water
05:05because you're getting stagnated lymph toxins. You need to flush it
05:10out because when you flush these toxins out, things are going to heal. Things are
05:14going to look better. You're going to feel better.
05:16And two, you need to cut down those inflammatory
05:21sugars, refined and processed sugars. As you cut it down, you're going to start
05:25losing weight. You need to eat healthy. And as you lose
05:29this weight, you'll see a lot of this extra fat
05:32will go away as well. So here you are. You have in your toolbox
05:39some great exercises. You're only going to do about 12 to 15
05:43repetitions of these exercises of each one. Do them all if you can. You
05:49can get them all done real quick and you will see within a short period
05:54of time, within a few weeks, some great progress. These exercises are
05:59awesome. They're one of my favorites. I wish you well. I wish you good health.
06:03Please share this video with your friends and family. Leave your comments
06:07below. And most important, make it a great day.
06:11I'm Dr. Alan Mandel.
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