More Than Facial Exercise...Facialbuilding!
How did you get started in FlexEffect?
I began teaching Facial Exercise in 1976. At that time,
Isometrics were the only form of facial training known to the
public. A year later, still teaching Facial Isometrics, I became
interested in weightlifting and soon after stepped into
competitive bodybuilding. This move called for a marked
reduction in body fat. Consequently, this loss of fat had an
aging effect on my face. As a Facial Trainer this was not an
acceptable trade-off!
I had no intention of giving up bodybuilding, but determined to
remedy my dilemma. On a hunch that resistance training could add
fullness to my face in the same way it did to my body, I decided
to convert each Isometric exercise into an exercise using
resistance. This was the beginning of 'Facial Resistance
Training' Est.1979
Knowing what it took to increase muscle density (fullness), I
knew resistance training would be far more aggressive than the
facial training I had been doing. This took a lot of nerve on my
part since I, too, had been duped into thinking any handling of
the face could prove detrimental. When I described my new
training technique, which I later dubbed