Every day is neck day this week.
A robust pillar improves all your movements and increases your strength.
Protocol/
- 1-2 movements
- 10 minutes
- Track your progress.
This thread presents the muscles of your neck and their functions to help you select the right exercises.
A robust pillar improves all your movements and increases your strength.
Protocol/
- 1-2 movements
- 10 minutes
- Track your progress.
This thread presents the muscles of your neck and their functions to help you select the right exercises.
My morning session with @TheIronNeck added one inch of pure pump.
The device allows me to expose several different neck muscles to a progressive increase of resistance, safely and effectively.
Now, let’s dig underneath the skin to better grasp the movements of your neck.
The device allows me to expose several different neck muscles to a progressive increase of resistance, safely and effectively.
Now, let’s dig underneath the skin to better grasp the movements of your neck.
Your Platysma is one of your most superficial muscles.
These fibres support your jawline and play a role in some of your facial expressions.
- Squeeze the front of your neck. You will see the stringy muscle tense.
- Hold this tension for 3 seconds then open your mouth wide.
These fibres support your jawline and play a role in some of your facial expressions.
- Squeeze the front of your neck. You will see the stringy muscle tense.
- Hold this tension for 3 seconds then open your mouth wide.
Your Sternocleidomastoid is another superficial muscle of your neck, the most elegant of them all.
You get stronger by merely saying its name.
Here are two exercises you can safely practice at home:
1- Lying Head Extensions
2- Diagonals
(Muscle&Motion animation)
You get stronger by merely saying its name.
Here are two exercises you can safely practice at home:
1- Lying Head Extensions
2- Diagonals
(Muscle&Motion animation)
Your scalene lays deep under the superficial muscles of your neck.
These fibers flex your head forward and bring your ear to your shoulder. They also raise your ribs when you inhale.
Safe way to target them:
Take a deep nose breath and hold at the top for 3-5 seconds. Repeat.
These fibers flex your head forward and bring your ear to your shoulder. They also raise your ribs when you inhale.
Safe way to target them:
Take a deep nose breath and hold at the top for 3-5 seconds. Repeat.
Your Upper Trapezius and Splenius Capitis extend your neck.
This motion is vital when you think of the hours spent looking down at a screen.
Train your extensors at home:
-Look up to the ceiling with a slow,controlled movement, hold for 3 seconds at the top, look down. Repeat.
This motion is vital when you think of the hours spent looking down at a screen.
Train your extensors at home:
-Look up to the ceiling with a slow,controlled movement, hold for 3 seconds at the top, look down. Repeat.
Various muscles work together to retract your neck and pull your head back.
Slide your chin back to strengthen this movement, keeping your jaw and eyes leveled throughout the rep, then push your chin forward. Repeat.
Slide your chin back to strengthen this movement, keeping your jaw and eyes leveled throughout the rep, then push your chin forward. Repeat.
The unconscious nervous system controls the underlying tension in your neck.
Your brain calculates the position of your head with the feedback sent by your jaw, teeth and tongue, along with your inner ear.
This exchange is vital.
Your brain calculates the position of your head with the feedback sent by your jaw, teeth and tongue, along with your inner ear.
This exchange is vital.
Factors affecting the muscle tension in your neck 24/7:
- Eye movements
- Tongue Posture
- Jaw position
Address them if you live with unsolvable pain or mobility restrictions.
Annette from @posture_pro showed me this link, and the results speak for themselves.
- Eye movements
- Tongue Posture
- Jaw position
Address them if you live with unsolvable pain or mobility restrictions.
Annette from @posture_pro showed me this link, and the results speak for themselves.
