Can Body Building Help With Facial Structure?

The facial mimetic muscles have a roughly one to one nerve to muscle fiber innervation, making them highly responsive to stimulation, capable of great flexibility in motion, and allows correlation with speech and emotion.  As such, the facial mimetic musculature is amongst the most heavily used group of muscles in the body.  However, the facial mimetic muscles are not designed to be load bearing unlike the masticatory muscles (temporalis, masseter, pterygoids), which tend to enlarge with heavy use.  Body builders will frequently have more prominent temporalis and masseter muscles combined with relative loss of facial fat.  The loss of facial fat leads to a general hollowness in the mid-facial area, which is less desirable esthetically than loss of fat in other areas of the body

Thank you for your question. No, sun exposure an genetics seem t o be the biggest factors in facial maturity and change. I hope this helps.

There is a popular idea that skin can be toned with exercise, but the face is unique in that muscle attach to the skin so as to create expression. When these muscle are too active, they create problems such as "crow's feet" around the eyes, furrows in the forehead, and worry lines between the eyebrows. Botox is often used to treat these types of wrinkles because it temporarily paralyzes the muscle! Exercise everything else for good health but go with proven methods for the face.

Facial aging is a change in the elasticity, volume, and distribution of the soft tissues of the face. Using the underlying muscles will have no effect on the progression of aging in the structures.

Over the years there have been numerous devices, exercises and even Yoga practices that claimed to help tone the facial muscles so the face won't sag or age so fast. None of these work. If you look at aging bodybuilders, marathoners and Yogis, they actually look older. That has more to do with loss of facial fat. In that case fillers are the answer. For the other question, stick to exercising your body, but nothing lifts the face like surgery except Ulthera.

Hello there 

Generally speaking , body builders are more prone to prematurely age their faces than to improve them. 

Many of the attractive contours of the face are determined by the fat compartments of the face. Body builders often lose a lot of body fat and therefore also reduce these attractive contours. 

Most of the facial muscles are very fine and contribute almost nothing to the contours of the face. As such building them up won't help. The larger muscles that move the jaw can enlarge quite markedly but in the female face in particular this enlargement can give the face a square shape which is generally much less attractive than the usual oval or gentle 'V' shape of the pretty female face. 

So no , I don't think body building helps the face 

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Terrence Scamp

 

 

 

 

 

This is an interesting question.  Body building on its own won't change the underlying structure of the face.  Facial muscles are hard to build up or reduce through exercise.  Probably the only place we see this spontaneously is to the masseter muscle, at the angle of the jaw which can become larger in people who either grind their teeth when asleep, or who are multiple hour per day gum chewers.

The effect of bodybuilding on the face is much more about the metabolic changes which can occur in bodybuilding.  Building muscle mass, and deliberately altering body fat content through choice will change the appearance of the face and neck, but your choices around how much fat to carry are much more important to your facial appearance than what happens to your muscle development. The neck can thicken with the addition of a large amount of muscle bulk.

As has already been said, fillers and botox can accentuate or mododulate aspects of your features non surgically but very effectively.

Good luck,

Howard Webster

Bodybuilding will do great for your body's musculature but not for your facial muscles.  In order to add definition to your face you must have fillers or implants to sharpen the definition of your face.

Dear shamguy,

Thank you for your question.  No, bodybuilding does not help with facial structure, other than defining a facial contours as overall bodyfat composition is decrease.

Best Wishes,

Pablo Prichard, MD

Bodybuilding, per say, will not give you a different face structure.  If you are losing fat, some of the features may become more prominent; depending on the amount of you lose.  The widest part on a man's face should be his mandible (jaw) with the widest part of a woman's face being where the orbital rim of the eye socket meets the zygomatic (cheek).  It is easy to tweak and enhance facial structure with the use of fillers and a skilled and board certified plastic surgeon can inject them in way that looks natural. I suggest scheduling a consultation with a plastic surgeon to discuss what you are trying to achieve. “Dr.D”