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In the gym you always skip the strongest muscle in your body. Keep it like this, otherwise strange scenes will occur. Please note that you can train the cheek chewing muscle (masseter muscle), but only for the necessary relaxation.
To first feel which muscle is involved: Hold your fingertips slightly under your earlobe, make a chewing motion, and then feel it doing its work. Humans have a total of four chewing muscles. In addition to the masseter muscle, these are the lateral pterygoid muscle, the medial pterygoid muscle and the temporalis muscle. The last three are less strong.
Strongest muscle in your body: Cheek masticatory muscle
The cheek chewing muscle is therefore the strongest muscle in your body. This means that the masticatory muscle itself has the strongest muscle fibers and therefore provides the greatest strength in proportion.
The cheek masseter muscle (masseter muscle) (Image: Wikimedia)
At maximum tension, the buccal masticatory muscle creates 25 pounds of pressure between the upper and lower front teeth and up to 90 pounds between the molars Science in pictures.
Training the chewing muscle for relaxation
Since you’re chewing all day, you don’t have to strength train your body’s strongest muscle. On the other hand. You train the cheek chewing muscle to relax it. Although the muscles are essential for chewing, they sometimes cause problems. For example, if you grind your teeth, the enormous power of this muscle can cause serious damage to your tooth roots. Overactivity can also cause headaches. And then the muscle can grow unintentionally, which can lead to asymmetry in your face.
According to Tirza Bottema, head of Thai massage training Thai Dee, stress can be a cause of teeth grinding or overactivity. She developed a workout to relax the strongest muscle in your body.
The workout
Below you will find some important points from the training or massage. Watch the full training with the necessary explanation here.
- Trigger point massage to relax the trigger points.
- Gentle, relaxing vibration movements with the fingertips just below the cheekbones at the level of the mandibular nerve.
- Massage the forehead, in front of the ears, on the jaw joint, over the cheeks, lower jaw and chin. The areas of “reflected pain”.
- Stroking movements with the thumbs perpendicular to the fiber direction of the cheek masticatory muscle.
- Ask the recipient of a massage to deepen the breath in the abdomen, relax the jaw, and release the head while moving it back and forth with a towel to relax.
- Consciously let your jaw hang loosely and at the same time deepen your abdominal breathing. This exercise can be repeated throughout the day and often provides a lot of attention.
- Yawning, laughing and singing! Yawning, laughing and singing are perfect relaxation exercises for your jaw. This will automatically release the tension.
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