Part 2: Incorporating Advanced Techniques in your Flexeffect Routine

By Sean Cochrane

If you have not read Part 1 of this article, check it out here!

After the first 3-6 months, and for some, even a year of training, most of the muscle groups will have developed and increased in strength and then comes the opportunity to use the advanced disciplines like Pressure Reps, Jolting and Cross Stretching. There’s been some confusion over these which I’ll try to clear up for you. Most importantly you do NOT have to do them all at once. Many people think because they’re advanced that they have to be done altogether – and the truth is this is incorrect.

At the year mark (and sometimes earlier), you probably will have gotten your muscles developed to the stage where you just want to maintain them without going after growth, so you’ll be able to cut back on the routine from exercising 5 times a week to perhaps only exercising 2 or 3 times a week. I tend to advise people when they do cut back to enable extra rest days in between workouts so that they can introduce the advanced techniques slowly and in parts in very much the same way you started out learning the resistance exercises.

An Example schedule would be:

Day 1: Pressure Reps
Day 2: Resistance Exercises
Day 3: Jolting
Day 4: Resistance Exercises
Day 5: Cross Stretching
Days 6 & 7: Total Rest

The advanced techniques will (as you have noticed from the DVD">) take only a matter of a few minutes but no where near to the same degree of time you spent on your resistance exercises. Not only that, but if you wanted you could even divide up your advanced techniques, so for example doing the forehead scalp one day, the mid face 2 days later, the lower face and neck another 2 days later and so fourth. The combinations are endless.

People who attempt to do everything in one sitting are doing way more than necessary. It's impossible to keep that level of focus, concentration and effort up for everything, especially day in and day out. The the mind gets bored, your hands and fingers are working out hard and can get tired. Your face is also taking a huge workout. Its not going to get you faster results, in fact in reality you may even slow your results. Your tissues need down time to rest.

The 3rd edition of Flexeffect has been designed as a toolbox to enable you to have tools for dealing with any aging concern. Like any well-stocked tool box you will not need every single tool every time you open the box. You will assess the job at hand. And select the tools you need.

Remember to set aside time for your workout so that you do not have to rush and cut corners, because believe me when I say if you cut corners – you will cut your results too. Flexeffect is continuously refining, expanding and updating methods and techniques. And while we believe we have a pretty awesome bunch of tools already, as the years roll by you can expect more. Make sure you visit the forum for any updates

Time Management and Your Flexeffect Routine PART 1

By Sean Cochrane

Flexeffect is all about developing the face to give it an improved, healthy and younger look without surgery. It puts you in control of your face and is not a short term thing but rather a long term improvement program that you can use for the rest of your life.

When done consistently, you will continue to improve your appearance every day, week, month and year. If you are older, this means you can turn back the clock quite a bit. If you are younger, you can stall the clock even more! Every face regardless of age, shape or texture can derive anti-aging benefits from the program. With that said, no two people start off from the same place or with the same goals. So it's important to discuss a few concepts here to help you understand how you will improve with the program and how to enable you to make the most of your training. It’s a flexible and adaptable routine that can easily be merged into your life.

First, master the basics!

The basics are simply the resistance exercises and massage. There are 49 resistance training exercises done daily but in the beginning it takes time to learn the exercises and massage, so I often suggest to people to break it up into smaller sections. An example would be to start out with lessons 1-5 for the first week and mastering those, and then adding the next 5 lessons and so fourth building up to doing the resistance exercises daily.

Some exercises have variations, and this has been purposely designed to keep your muscles from second guessing you in your workout, but also to stop you from plateauing and losing interesting in your workout. You won't be doing the full 49 daily. It's more like 30 when you rotate. You simply pick one variation and work with that variation for a week, and then the following week move onto the next variation. Its very simple and it works to deliver faster results but also accelerates your results. A few short months will bring substantial changes and your face will become firmer and smoother as a result. These results, however, are far from the finished product.

Workouts can be done at any time of the day, but the preference is to have a clean face and hands and to do it at a time that’s convenient to you. A time when you're not pressured or rushed and will be able to focus. Using the advanced tools on different days will also allow each area that’s been worked to have down time without overworking or over-stressing the areas. This will also bring maximum results using both a flexible and adaptable routine that you’ll want to do and have fun doing. You are empowered to yield continual results over the coming days, weeks, months and years without the need, cost and time of a plastic surgeon, whilst you are using your own hands and taking care of the causes of aging in a holistic method of firming, smoothing and strengthening your face in as little as 15-25 minutes a day. Not only will there be an increase in muscle and bone density, but combined with the remodelling of connective tissue, your face will lift and you’ll counteract facial drape such as jowls, hollowing of cheeks and crepe like skin.

You can spend more time with your routine if you wish – its entirely up to you. However if you do as suggested (a) firstly your not going to find your head spinning with information, (b) time-wise it’s a shorter workout and it will enable you to focus on the exercises and more importantly (c) it gets the workout remembered much more easily. Interestingly enough, no two people learn at the same rate or via the same method. Some people label themselves as visual learners and so will use the DVD. Some will use a combo of the DVD and book, and some might only want to use the book. No way is right/wrong but what I’ve found most common in those who really do master the exercises is that they use all the materials. So they use the book, DVD, and CD throughout their training sometimes together, sometimes separate.

When you’ve learned your exercises its time to use the CD that comes with your package. This will really enable you to save time as it gives you two options. The first is 3 reps of each exercise which totals 12 minutes. The second is a longer and more intense workout of 5 reps of each exercise which totals some 24 minutes. Now even with these time frames, again you are in control. You do not have to do them all at once, you can split them up into sections during your day. The way I personally train is to do the first half of my workout in the morning on waking (as I personally find this to be a wonderful way of waking up, refreshing myself and starting the day) and usually I do exercises 1-15 for 5 reps (so spending 12 minutes) and then I do my last half at the end of the day, exercises 16-30 (again spending 12 minutes) as I find this helps me de-stress me and helps me to unwind and relax. Some people like to put some relaxing music on, which is equally wonderful and helps them to focus on the muscles working etc – its all about how you can gain maximum benefit from it. However, this is your training so you can make it work in any way that you wish. You could if you like split it up into 3 workouts in your day, starting with exercises 1-10 in the morning, 11-20 at lunch and 21-30 in the early evening if you so wanted.

With massage, people always want a time frame and in reality there is no way we can specify one because it really depends on whether or not you have areas for which you want to make a focused effort. I’d say that you would want to spend at least 10-15 minutes a day doing the massage and by far its always easier to multitask when you do this. So for example massage when your cleansing, applying moisturiser or sunscreen for example, or just clearing your mind before going to bed at night.

The basic routine is a complete workout that will deliver noticeable results within the first few weeks, and it will continue throughout your first year of training. Generally you will hear the year mark a lot, but its not to suggest that you won’t get results before then. It is quite common, and likely frustrating, when starting out, you have to work to identify which are your stronger muscles, which are the weaker ones and where your trouble spots are. That takes time, but when you do locate them you also have the tools to begin turning your weaknesses into your strengths too. So for the first year, its really up to you to how long to spend during your 5 day training week, but the total of say 22 minutes or 34 minutes a day isn’t that long to begin with, particularly when it comes to the benefits you’ll achieve.

Stay Tuned for Part 2:
Incorporating Advanced Techniques in your Flexeffect Routine

Facial Overbuild

By Deb Crowley

Why would anyone want to purchase a facial exercise program that is incapable of allowing a muscle to overbuild?

I continue to read how FlexEffect can overbuild areas of the face, like that is something negative about the program.

When a facial exercise program says their exercises build muscle, and at the same time claims 'you won’t have to worry about overbuild' they are actually selling Toning exercises... Certainly nothing wrong with that. But, you should know that FlexEffect not only claims the ability to overbuild but it also allows for simple tone if that is what you are looking for.

With Facialbuilding, overbuild happens when a person first reaches the size of the muscle he would normally want, yet continues to build because he has not yet reached the look he is trying to achieve. Naturally, this can be bothersome but in no time the novice catches on (studying his book / help from on-line trainers and fellow flexers.)

To get the look, the trainee needs variants.

You need as much material as you can get, and, ALL the various techniques used to address each and every muscle, and, the know how to put it all together. This you will find in FlexEffect as you should with any reputable training program.

Just like bodybuilding, it is truly a science (getting to know your muscle makeup and what it takes to get where up want to be)

Example. A bicep curl done with a certain amount of weight will either tone the bicep or, if you want, go beyond tone and build as much size as you are capable of.

How do variants play into training a bicep? Depending upon your technique You can either ‘build the center’ of the bicep and peak it, or, build a longer looking bicep by building the bicep up toward the shoulder all-the-while controlling the size of the muscle. This is true building... the means to get exactly what you want.

So yes, FlexEffect does have the ability to overbuild which is TRUE building hence the word Facialbuilding.

BTW Anyone starting out with toning exercises (small amount of resistance) and will actually stick with it, will, with out doubt, want to advance in their training.

deb ;)