Being a "lion face" reflects the natural "face-lifting" effect.
In a new yoga class on the affluent Upper East Side of Manhattan, new york, Annelise Hagen, a yoga instructor, is teaching several facial exercises to stretch and strengthen facial muscles. A group of women are doing "lion" movements, sticking out their tongues and opening their eyes. This is one of the basic movements of facial yoga. If you want to keep your facial skin firm and elastic, you can try this action.
Although this expression looks funny, Annelise Hagen, the founder of facial yoga, said that facial muscles will gradually weaken and relax, and facial yoga helps to exercise facial muscles, promote blood circulation and eliminate wrinkles. Hagen encourages students to stick to one posture for 60 seconds.
In addition to Operation Lion, other exercises include Satchmo and Marilyn. "satchmo" is to bulge the cheeks like louis armstrong, and "Marilyn" is a charming kissing action, which can strengthen the mouth muscles and make the lips fuller and firmer. Hagen said: "The principle of practice is the same as other parts of the body. "Facial muscles can also become strong and beautiful, so it is a natural way to face-lift."
Exercise facial muscles, so that beauty is not hurt.
At present, Annelise's facial yoga training class has recruited several groups of students in new york. Facial yoga is a good choice for women who want to keep their young appearance and don't want to be stabbed. In order to enable people outside new york to practice facial yoga, Annelise also edited and published a guidebook "Facial Yoga: The Most Natural Secret of Wrinkle Removal". She said, because women want to show their best, but they don't know how to exercise facial muscles. So she set up a facial yoga studio.
There is no professional debate about the effect of facial yoga. Some opponents say that facial yoga is not desirable, and facial muscles cannot be exercised like biceps brachii. But many women who have practiced facial yoga say it works well. In this regard, Annelise Hagen said that in any case, in the process of practicing facial yoga, people often laugh, and this kind of psychological relaxation and emotional infection is also a good way to make people young.
"Laughing Yoga" rejuvenates the face.
In fact, there is a trick in facial yoga called "Laughing Yoga". In a yoga studio in new york, USA, all the visitors are old people. The yoga they take part in is very special, that is, laughing hard. Under the guidance of professional coaches, these old people are forming a circle, clapping their hands and laughing, and practicing a kind of yoga called "rejuvenating with a smile". The seemingly weird laughter and pronunciation practice are the soul of the whole set of laughter yoga. By adjusting breathing rhythm and cooperating with exaggerated movements of face and limbs, students can relieve muscle pressure and release emotions, so as to achieve the effect of wrinkle removal and beauty.
The coach said that practicing this kind of laughter yoga can improve hormone secretion, lower blood pressure and relieve pain and anxiety. In addition, like ordinary yoga, laughter yoga can also achieve the effect of slimming, and practitioners can consume 400 calories per hour. Today, laughter yoga has become popular in the United States, India, Vietnam and Finland.
A new perspective of fitness
Excessive exercise leads to the "decline" of young hearts.
Patients with hypertension and heart failure should exercise actively, but avoid excessive exercise. What does a lot of exercise bring to those patients with hypertension and heart failure? The scientist did an experiment, and the result was not optimistic. It shows that ultra-intense exercise is very bad for the heart of hypertensive patients and will accelerate the occurrence of heart failure. This conclusion was published in the American Journal of Hypertension.
Excessive exercise can aggravate hypertension and heart failure.
Scientists did this experiment with mice. They first selected two groups of mice with congenital hypertension and heart failure, and let one group run in the wheel every day, while the other group lay comfortably in the hut, almost motionless; Then they chose another group of healthy mice as a control, put them in the wheel and ran as fast as they could.
These little mice have great exercise intensity. They run an average of 6.8 kilometers every six hours, with a top speed of 4 kilometers per hour. 16 months later, the researchers found that high-intensity exercise had no effect on the heart function of healthy mice; Immortality makes the heart of hypertensive mice with heart failure bigger; And those mice who run wildly with diseases are the most pitiful, because all indicators show that excessive exercise makes them farther and farther away from health.
In this regard, Zeng Yujie, deputy director and chief physician of the Department of Cardiology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, explained: "If hypertension is not treated for a long time, it will make the heart bigger, and the heart structure will also change, and the heart function will also be affected. In this case, a lot of exercise is beyond its load range, which will definitely aggravate the heart damage. " "In addition, in patients with heart failure, strenuous activity is more likely to promote and aggravate heart failure." However, he also said that in the absence of related underlying diseases, high-intensity exercise will not lead to hypertension and heart failure for no reason, and healthy people need not worry.
Moderate exercise is helpful to the recovery of hypertension.
At the same time of this study, the researchers also conducted another six-month experiment. They asked hypertensive mice with heart failure to do low-intensity pedaling exercise. The results showed that these mice not only had better heart function and healthier body, but also lived longer than those mice that had been running for 16 months.
Zeng Yujie told reporters: "In fact, for patients with hypertension, doctors advocate active exercise." As long as the blood pressure is controlled within the normal range with drugs first, and then a lot of exercise, such as playing ball, swimming, running, etc., can effectively lose weight and enhance vascular elasticity, especially for patients with early hypertension. As for patients with heart failure, unless they really can't get out of bed, it is beneficial and harmless to exercise within their power.
In fact, exercise is more harmful than cardiovascular damage. Zeng Yujie said that the incidence of cardiovascular diseases in China has risen rapidly in recent years, mainly because people's lives are unrestrained and irregular, including staying up late, drinking, smoking and not exercising. Nowadays, urban residents in China generally lack exercise, especially in Beijing. Life is so fast that people generally have no time to exercise. "Regular exercise will not get sick, and irregular life is the most dangerous."