How many times have you tried visualizing your face without that annoying double chin?
Have you recently lost some weight but are struggling to tighten up the loose skin around your jawline and neck area?
Do you feel the loose and sagging skin is pulling your face down and making you look older and fuller than you really are?
If you would like to prevent or reduce your turkey neck or sagging jowls, check out these very easy, quick and effective exercises that will make sure your skin gets firmer, tauter and younger looking, as you start exercising regularly.
BEST NECK EXERCISES TO TIGHTEN (GET RID OF) TURKEY NECK
Here are a few facial exercises that can help you to significantly reduce and even prevent the appearance of turkey neck.
How will these exercises help get rid of turkey neck?
- Exercising the muscles around the neck and the shoulder will help to boost the flow of blood to these areas. As a result, it will stimulate the production of collagen in the specific areas where you are exercising the muscles.
- When your body produces more collagen, it will help to tighten up the skin and the appearance of sagging skin will gradually decrease.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #1: Jim Carrey face and neck exercise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AnoEK2wv_Y
- Tighten up the muscles around your neck area. You have to lay special emphasis on the platysma muscle, which is the long stretch of muscle that stretches upwards from your chest and the shoulder towards your collarbone and to the sides of the neck.
- Stretch your neck so that the muscle feels tight and push your face forward.
- Now without moving your neck or your face, open up your lips into a smile.
- Hold the position for about a few seconds, 20 to 30 seconds, and make sure you keep feeling a pull in your neck muscle.
- Now bring back your face to the regular position.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #2: Pout face kiss to the ceiling
- Just as the name suggests, for this particular facial exercise, you have to look up towards the ceiling and make a kissing expression, while making a pout.
- Look up towards the ceiling and stretch your neck up as much as you can.
- Now purse your lips together so that they form a pout.
- Hold your neck and your face in place by stretching the muscles. You should be able to feel the pull in these areas, and especially around your neck area.
- Make sure you are sitting straight and not in a hunched position.
- As you are making the pout face, make a kissing movement with your lips and make a kissing sound.
- When you do this, your lips should move as much as possible, so that you feel the movement around the entire neck, jaw, cheek and mouth area.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #3: The baby bird exercise
- For this particular exercise, you have to place the tip of your tongue on the roof of your mouth.
- At the same time as your tongue touches the roof of the mouth, you have to make a smiling motion and swallow.
- Also, while you are doing this, you will have to keep repeating the exercise through several different angles. You will also have to tilt your chin upwards, so that your head kind of tilts backwards.
- For instance, the first time that you do this, turn your head towards the right side, touch the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth and then make a smiling motion. For the smile, your lips should be parted so that your teeth show through.
- Now swallow.
- You should be able to feel a pull around the muscles of your neck and jaw, as well as around the mouth area.
- Do this ten times.
- Now return to the starting position and turn your head towards the left side. Repeat all the above steps.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #4: The mudra
- For this exercise, you will have to slide your lower teeth over your upper teeth.
- As you do so, you will have to stretch your mouth into a smiling position so that your lips are parted and your teeth are visible.
- While doing this exercise, you will be able to feel a pull around your neck and jaw muscles.
- Hold this position for about 20 seconds.
- Make sure to keep your neck absolutely straight and stretched, or even a little tilted back.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #5: Make the fist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KzaO7r3LE
How will this exercise help?
- When you are doing the following exercise, you will mainly be exercising the muscles that are around the front area of your neck, and directly under your chin and the jawline. The key for this particular exercise is that you should not make the movements too fast, but do it slowly and at a steady pace, so that the muscles get worked up gradually and can feel the stretch and the tension.
- Also, once you start feeling the burning sensation, it means that your muscles will now go into repair mode and start working to visibly reduce the appearance of turkey neck.
If you are looking for the best neck exercises for turkey neck, this is a very easy and effective exercise that you can easily try out at home, at work, or absolutely anywhere!
How to do it:
- For this particular exercise, as the name suggests, you will have to first make a fist with your hand. Now place this right under your chin.
- As you place your fist under the chin, you have to slightly give it a push, so that your head tilts back very lightly.
- Now immediately, and almost at the same time, start pushing down with your head, with as much pressure as you can.
- Try to hold your fist tight and apply as much resistance as you can to the head movement, so that it is difficult for you to push the head down.
- The idea is to push down so that you can force your fist down with the push from the head, but also try and not let that happen.
- Do this for about 20 to 30 times.
- You should soon be able to feel a sort of burning sensation in the muscles around this area. This sensation is described as the lactic muscle burn. Once you feel it, stop the movement and hold the fist as tightly as you can and offer as much resistant as is possible. Hold this position for about 20 seconds.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #6: The body brush massage technique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TLm_609tLU
How will these exercises help?
- The massage technique is known to improve the circulation of blood in your body, and as a result, it also triggers the production of collagen in your system. Collagen is responsible for giving your body the elasticity and tightness, and a loss of collagen is what leads to sagging skin, and the appearance of turkey neck.
- Stretching the muscles of the neck and jaw area will work up the muscles and help to tone the area. It will also improve blood circulation, which again will boost the collagen production and reduce sagging skin.
- To do this particular exercise, it is best that you use a body brush that comes with a handle, so that it is easy for you to move it around.
- Start by stretching your neck a little to the upward direction and massage with the body brush around the neck and chest area.
- Remember to start the massage from a down to up motion, moving it up with fast movements from the chest area towards the neck and chin area.
- Keep doing this till you notice a kind of redness on the skin around those areas and you will also feel those particular areas turning warmer and even feeling hot to the touch. This is because your blood circulation is really pumped up as a result of the massaging.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #7: Look up and pout
- Sit down comfortably and keep your back straight.
- Place your arms around both sides of the lower back to maintain your balance and also to maintain the right posture.
- Turn your face upwards towards the ceiling and make sure to stretch your neck as you do so, so that you can feel a pull around the muscles of your neck.
- As you are looking up, make a pouting motion with your lips and hold the position for five to ten seconds.
- Now push your head down to the front, so that your chin almost touches your chest. Release the pout motion and breathe out through your mouth. Make sure that your back is absolutely straight and is not hunching forward.
- Immediately push your head back again, so that your face is looking upwards, and make the pout motion again with your lips.
- Bring back your head forward again so that your chin almost touches your chest.
- Do this for about ten times.
BEST FACE EXERCISES FOR TURKEY NECK AND SAGGING JOWLS
Here are a few facial exercises that can help you to significantly reduce and even prevent the appearance of sagging jowls.
How will these exercises help get rid of turkey neck?
- For the following exercise, it is best recommended that you do this for about two to three weeks, and then switch over to a different set. The best way to go about this would be to try and stick to one particular exercise for about two or three weeks at a stretch, so that you get the best benefits out of it. You can then switch to a different variation of the same exercise, or give that area a rest for one or two weeks so that it can recuperate.
- The exercise shown below will mainly help to work on the muscles that are located around the cheekbones, around the sides of the face and all the way down from the neck to the chest area. The main benefit will be around the jawline, which will help to eliminate the sagging jowl especially around the Adam’s apple area. It will give you a more toned and firmer look.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #8: The pursed smile exercise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ7kydr2EA0
- Start by tightening up the muscles around your mouth area and purse your lips together to make a smiling motion.
- For this particular exercise, it is best that you place your fingers around your chin so that your smile motion stays in place.
- Put pressure on the muscles around the mouth area and start opening and closing your lips, so that it is something like a smile and then a pursed lips motion.
- As you are smiling, try to push your mouth down as well, so that you feel the strain on the muscles around the neck. You have to make a motion as if you are pushing your chin to the outer side with the pressure of your smile.
- Do this as fast as you can, preferably for about fifty times a day. As you get better at it, you can take it to as much as 150 repetitions a day.
- You should be able to feel the strain in the muscles around your cheekbones, on the sides of your face, your jawline and definitely around your mouth area.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #9: Stretch back the smile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru_qoix9YC4
How will this exercise help?
- Trying out this exercise will help to keep the skin around your jawline firm and taut. It will effectively delay the appearance of sagging jowls and even reduce the ones that you already might have.
- Doing this exercise on a regular basis will give your skin a natural lift and will make your entire face look firmer and tighter. It will also make your skin appear more youthful and healthier.
- Keep your face straight and make a smile.
- Place both your hands on the sides of your face and start pulling your face to the sides, almost to the back.
- It should look as if you are pulling your smile back.
- Open your lips in a smile and then immediately close them back, then smile again, then close. Keep doing this as you hold your face tightly back to both the sides.
- Do this for 20 times.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #10: Lymph drainage for the face step 1
How will these exercises help?
- These will help to remove any toxins that may have built up and been deposited in your face.
- It will boost the blood circulation and improve your body’s natural production of collagen, thereby improving your skin’s elasticity and preventing sagging.
- Keep your face straight and slightly bring your chin to the front.
- Purse up your lips and keep your face tightly in place.
- Now start tapping fast under your chin with the back of your hand. Do this right under the chin and to the sides under the jaw.
- Be firm so that you can feel the hits but do not hurt yourself.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #11: Lymph drainage for the face step 2
- Grasp your face behind the ears by placing your fingers behind and in front of your ears.
- With very light movements, bring your fingers all the way till your chin and go back to grasping your ears.
- Do this for 20 repetitions.
- Next, spread out your fingers, place them on your neck just below the jaw and bring them down fast till your chest. Keep doing this 20 times.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #12: Iron chin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7dUEkgf7NA
- Place your fingers on your chin to keep your mouth firmly in place.
- Make a pout using your lower lip and at the same time push the mouth upwards with your jaw.
- Repeat this ten times.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #13: Fists
- Close your hands to form fists and place them at the side of both of your cheeks right next to the ears.
- Push the fists down till the chin while squeezing down firmly on the chin and jaw.
- Keep grinding your teeth so that your fists start moving out and in.
- Do this for ten seconds and repeat the steps ten times.
- Now bring the fists under the cheekbones and repeat the same steps till the chin, but instead of the ears, your fists will be placed near the cheekbones.
- Do this for ten seconds and repeat the steps ten times.
Exercises To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck #14: Frowns
- Turn your mouth into a frown so that your lips are slanting downwards.
- Place your thumb at the corner of the lips at the lowermost point.
- Place the other fingers at the side of your head.
- Now start pulling your thumbs up till your cheekbones in a firm and strong grasp. You should be able to feel the pressure.
- Do this for ten times.
- Do this for ten seconds and repeat the steps ten times.
Can these neck exercises really get rid of turkey neck and sagging jowls?
At the moment, there is no scientific evidence that can directly point to whether or not doing certain types of facial exercises can have a positive impact on your turkey neck and sagging jowls. In fact, this is a topic that is still going through a lot of debate, where some say that doing facial exercises can help to delay the appearance of a double chin, turkey neck or sagging jowl. Some also feel that these can reduce them visibly. However, there are others who say that doing facial exercises can actually make your creases and lines deeper and more prominent, and may make your skin more saggy and loose.
Those who believe in the power of facial exercising say that, regularly exercising the muscles in your neck area can actually help to improve the condition of sagging skin around your jawline. They feel that if you already have a lot of sagging skin, it can even reduce their appearance. Your neck muscles are attached to the skin, and so, when you do any type of facial exercises that will have a direct impact on these muscles, they will contract and then shorten. As a result, your skin will get a more lifted and spread look, which will add a tauter and younger look to your face.
Additional Research:
https://www.top-health-today.com/beauty-and-skincare/what-does-the-term-turkey-neck-mean/
http://www.berkeleywellness.com/self-care/home-remedies/article/facial-exercises
https://healthyliving.azcentral.com/can-exercise-tighten-turkey-wattle-10793.html
