Do small muscles build the same way as large muscles?

[fit1010]

I have had great success with doing facial exercise, but I am trying to maximize the routine and results. I use facial exercise not to loose fat on the face, but to get better definition, increase facial volume and improve the facial sag that occurs with aging.

The obvious challenge with facial exercise is that you can't use weights. You can somewhat add resistance with putting hand pressure agains the muscle but it's a little difficult.

I know in bodybuilding the key principles for building muscle volume (which is the only goal for the face, since strength obviously doesn't matter) are:

1. Increasing intensity/weight. Exercise done to failure.

2. For more volume: less reps, heavier weight and shorter rest periods between reps.

3. Rest between workout sessions so the muscles can rebuild. 5-7 days. If you do your next workout to soon you stop the muscle rebuilding from the previous workout.

My question is how can you adapt these principles to facial exercise?

Most facial exercise programs recommend lighter workouts twice a day. However, after reading a lot of bodybuilding information like that on abcbodybuilding this approach seemed wrong, so I have changed my routine and done more intense reps less frequently and I am getting better results. I have made one routine very intense and 6 days later those muscles of my face still look great and they seemed to get better over time. I 'm assuming it's because I am allowing them to rebuild.

Do the bodybuilding principles change for small muscles (like forearms, hands, possibly abs) which would be similar to face muscles?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

[bigironcross]

Jack LaLanne use to do facial exercise on his old TV show back in the day. You might want to do some web seaches to find them and his recommendations.