Overweight people who have extra rolls of fat around their neck should revitalize their neck muscles with the following movements :
Nod your head forward, bringing your chin to the chest. Hold it for three seconds; then chin up as high it will go, and hold it again. Repeat several times.
Hold your head with face facing in front. Turn your first to the left, then to the right as far as it will go. Hold it for three seconds first left, then right, repeat several times.
THE DOUBLE STRETCH FOR DOUBLE CHINS
The double stretch is excellent for helping to get rid of double chins; and a wise precaution against letting the neck sag into loose folds as you shed excess fat. For this one, lie on your bed, with the head hanging over the edge of the bed. Now slowly raise your head up, up (double stretch): Be sure not to raise your shoulders. Relax and repeat. Do this simple exercise six times at first, then after two weeks, do it twelve times, each day.
THE BREAST MUSCLES
This exercise is specially designed for the ladies to help tone up and strengthen the muscles supporting the breast. Reducers especially need to counteract the sag of overburdened, unused breast muscles and over stretched skin.
Breasts are glands, not muscles; and hence you cannot stimulate their development. What you can do to make them “appear ” larger is to strengthen the muscles underneath the glands. This can be easily done by a simple exercise :
Stand up and extend both arms to the sides, straightout at shoulder level with palms of the hands, facing forward. Then, keeping the arms straight, whirl them in rapid circles. Do the circles forward first, then go into reverse and whirl the arms in backward circles. AS you do this breathe naturally.
EXERCISE FOR ARMS
Unless a person is involved in sports or heavy physical work, the upper arms tend to become flabby and weak. To firm and tone the muscles of the arms do the following simple exercise :
Sit on the floor or stand with both feet one to one and a half feet apart; fingers resting on shoulders, elbows out to sides, shoulder level.
Rotate both elbows in a circle. Begin by lowering down to sides, touching waist point elbows forward and up. Press elbows back to shoulder level. Lower elbows to waist. Lead with both elbows. Continue to make big circles in the air. Begin with four circles forward, then four backward. Increase total circles gradually to ten in each direction.
EXERCISE FOR MIDRIFF AND WAISTLINE
In many an obese person, fat settles in the midriff region to expand and creep downward until there is a straight line from under the arms to the top of the hips. This area responds beautifully to stretching exercises along with a scientific weight loss programme, combined with proper diet.
Stand erect keeping a distance of about one to one and a half feet between your two feet. Keep both arms hanging along your sides in line with the shoulders.
Now extend your right arm downward and left arm upward as shown in the picture, and tilt your body to the right. Repeat this action in reverse order, tilt your body to the left and extend your right arm upward and left arm downward. Repeat both actions twelve times a day.