Aftercare Tips After Botox: Can You Exercise?

Today, I want to answer a question that clients ask very often, which is: can you exercise after getting Botox? I’d like to address this question in two parts.

Point One:

First, no matter which area you treat — whether it’s the masseter, the shoulders, or your calf muscles — you should not exercise within the first two weeks after your injection. The goal is to prevent the Botox from diffusing into muscle groups where we don’t want it to act. Because during the first two weeks after injection, the Botox has not yet fully bound to the cell membranes; some of it still sits in the spaces between cells. When we excessively increase our metabolism, it may diffuse into muscle groups that we don’t want it to affect.

Point Two:

The second point is: after two weeks, can I exercise? This depends on the area you treated. If you had your masseter treated, try to avoid things like cracking sunflower seeds or chewing tough steak, because you would quickly train the muscle back. If you had shoulder-slimming or leg-slimming injections, you also shouldn’t deliberately work those areas. If your goal was to relieve muscle pain or a feeling of tightness and soreness, then you can exercise. But if the purpose of these leg-slimming or shoulder-slimming injections was to shrink the muscle and make your figure slimmer, then try your best not to work those areas. If you train hard, the muscle will come back; if you don’t train it, it will shrink down more durably.