| Author | Message | ||
     Anonymous |
Hi tom Do you possible know you one can train their trian gularis muscles? you know the ones close to the mentalis muscle... Thanks!  | ||
| Thomas Hagerty Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 11 Registered: 05-2006 |
Anonymous: I wonder why you would want to isolate and then develop that small specific muscle. My thinking is that it's better to work on muscle groups in the face, like the front of the neck, the chin, the mouth. Focusing on just one tiny muscle might be frustrating and even counterproductive. Of course I could be missing the point of your question. Perhaps you have a good reason to home in on that tricky little triangular muscle. | ||
| Anonymous |
Yeah well it's to frame the face in a perticular way...of course the rest of the muscels for the Facial Exercise should be played in...but what i was wondering is if you have any idea on how to train that specefic area... | ||
| Thomas Hagerty Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 12 Registered: 05-2006 |
Anonymous: The following is from Face and Emotion. Triangularis, a name based on its shape, (also known as Depressor anguli oris) originates in the mandible and platysma and inserts in the skin and orbicular muscle at corner of the mouth. It is a muscle whose evolutionary connection to the platysma is evident, being continuous with it and extending to the mouth. This muscle causes the corners of the mouth to turn down and form the lips into an inverted U, an action stereotyped as indicating grief. It produces a frown in the mouth. Since the muscle originates in the platysma and inserts into the orbicularis oris, I think the exercises I give for the front of the neck and the mouth should tone this muscle up. |
