Use This Old School Neck Workout To Strengthen Your Neck

Aside from cosmetic reasons, strengthening your neck with neck exercises has the added benefit of reducing injury to this area if you’re an athlete. Boxers and wrestlers especially train their necks. It also allows you to take a punch to the jaw better since your head will be more resilient, but try to block the punch instead of taking one.

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Here is a neck workout that you can use to build an impressive neck. It consists of two exercises for the neck, with an easier version for you to practice before doing the difficult version. If you’re involved in high-contact sports like MMA, boxing, wrestling, rugby, football, or just want to look like you’ve got pythons coming out of your neck, try the following neck exercises.

Preliminary Fighters Bridge

Lie on your back with the soles of your feet on the surface, with your hands on either side of your scalp with your fingers toward your feet. Drive your body away from the surface until your hips are high, with your trunk and limbs forming an arc. Place the top of the head on a rolled flat towel. This is the initial position. Now, keeping both hands and also your head touching the surface, lower your head until your neck and upper shoulder muscles rest on the surface. Now steadily lift your head up using only your neck muscles and palms.

Full Fighter’s Bridge

Lie on your back with the soles of your feet on the floor, along with your hands on either side of your skull, fingers pointing toward your legs. Push your body off the surface until your hips are high and your trunk and limbs form an arc. Relax the top of your head on a rolled up flat towel. Steadily lift both hands off the floor until only your head and feet are on the surface. Rest your arms across your chest. This will be the starting point. Now slowly lower yourself once more using only your neck muscles and lower until finally your neck and tops of your shoulders touch the floor. Gently push back with your neck muscle to complete 1 rep.

preliminary front bridge

Kneel on the floor with your knee joints wide apart. Lean forward, inserting your palms into the floor, and place the top of your skull in the middle of your hands. Rest your head on a thin cushion. Withdraw both hands, until finally all the pressure goes through the joints of the knees, shins, feet and also the head. Place both hands behind the back. Allow your head to roll back until your nose touches the ground. Go back to the beginning and then turn your head to the right, go back to the beginning and then turn your head to the left. Return to the starting position again and perform repeatedly.

full front bridge

Enter into a wide stance with your feet wider than shoulder-length apart. Lean forward at the hips, placing your hands on the surface with your skull between your hands on a narrow rolled towel. Clear both hands until finally it’s just your feet and head making contact with the ground. Here is the starting position; now roll back until your nose touches the ground. Return to the starting position and turn your head to the right. Return to the start and turn your head to the left and return to the starting position. That’s just one rep and you continue for the designated number of reps.