pump ups: Jack LaLanne

[alexr_rwx]

Jack LaLanne is the man. He's 93, and still works out every day. And he spent decades having a fitness TV show and doing ridiculous-awesome feats of strength like swimming long distances while towing boats, or doing a thousand pullups. (or, apparently 1033 push-ups. Jebus).

Here he is at 88. You never thought about working out your face, did you?

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[gtv42.livejournal.com]

When I was little, I really wanted to be able to raise just one eyebrow. So I practiced for hours in front of a mirror. Eventually I was successful, and I just kept making different faces at myself and learning what they looked and felt like. I still will take a few minutes every couple of days or so to make funny faces in a mirror somewhere. Not only is this a good way to exercise your face, it's also a good way to learn your face and the expressions you can produce.

Some studies have even suggested that one's facial expression, to an extent, determines one's mood; it doesn't entirely happen in the other direction.

[lindseykuper]

"Raise one eyebrow" is my default eyebrow-raise behavior. I have to concentrate in order to raise both of them!

I'm pretty bad at most anything that involves fine motor skills of the face. I can't whistle; I can't wiggle my ears or nose; I can't wink. (It took me until I was 20 to learn how to close one eye, and I have to do it so slowly and painstakingly that there's no way it could be considered a wink.)