Cheeks Lift
NuviCor MEWING device for pulling up
cheeks muscles - Musculus Buccinator
Cheek Lifting with NuviCor MEWING
The Cosmetic Role of the Cheek Muscles
The cheeks play a crucial role in determining the overall shape and youthful appearance of your face. Over time, the cheek muscles—primarily the musculus buccinator (illustrated in Figure 1)—lose their strength and elasticity. This weakening leads to sagging cheeks, giving the face a less firm and youthful look. Sagging cheeks are often one of the earliest visible signs of aging, creating a subconscious perception of an older appearance.
To effectively reverse this, the cheek muscles must be strengthened through targeted training. This involves repetitive and intense muscle contractions, which is the only proven method for rebuilding muscle strength, volume, and tone.
Features of Cheek Muscle Training Exercises
For effective cheek muscle training, two primary conditions must be fulfilled:
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Isometric Tension of the Muscles
Isometric tension involves contracting the muscle without changing its length. To achieve this, place a finger inside your mouth, pressing gently against the inside of your cheek (as shown in Figure 2). While maintaining this pressure, try to tense your cheek muscles against the resistance of your finger. This resistance ensures proper isometric tension for the cheek muscles.
Precise Control of Muscle Tension
In traditional face fitness, cheek muscles are usually tensed to 30% of their maximum, which is not enough to achieve good results. When you exercise with NuviCor MEWING, you can easily tense the muscles with an optimal force of 70% of their maximum, making face fitness truly effective. This is achieved because NuviCor MEWING measures the tension of your muscles and, based on this:
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Creates an individualized exercise routine tailored to your capabilities.
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Monitors the quality of your training tasks.
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Informs you constantly and in real time about your successes and errors in your exercises.
How It Works in Practice
After completing an initial test (illustrated in Figure 3), the NuviCor MEWING app will create a personalized training plan and recommend an appropriate difficulty level for the exercises.
Exercise #1: Muscle Strengthening
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Objective: Tense and relax your cheek muscles five times.
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Process: As you perform the exercise, the screen will display a blue graph (Figure 4) representing your muscle activity. When you hear a voice command, tense your muscles with enough force to raise the graph above the red line.
At first, this might be challenging, but the device will automatically adjust the difficulty to match your abilities, making the exercise progressively easier.
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After a 20-second rest period, repeat the exercise multiple times.
Exercise #2: Precision Training
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Objective: Focus on coordinating muscle tension with a visual guide on the screen.
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Process: The line representing your muscle tension must align within the squares displayed on the screen (Figure 5).
This exercise emphasizes precision rather than force. Similar to Exercise #1, it consists of multiple cycles with rest breaks. Accuracy and control are key to mastering this stage.
Exercise #3: Training to increase muscle tone.
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Objective: Develop the ability to maintain muscle tension over extended periods.
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Process: Instead of monitoring a graph, you will watch a movie or video (Figure 6A). If your muscle tension drops below a certain threshold, the playback will pause (Figure 6B). To resume, slightly increase your muscle tension.
This exercise is less demanding in terms of direct effort, but is very important for developing muscle volume and tone.
You can select any movie or slideshow for this exercise, and detailed instructions for choosing media or customizing your routine are available in the MANUAL. A comprehensive explanation of all exercises can also be found there.
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By consistently performing these exercises with the NuviCor MEWING, you can restore smartness and lift to your cheeks, which will restore your face to a youthful and attractive appearance.
