I have been doing these weekly since last spring but now that I think about it I have made very little gains. What does your neck workout look like and are there better options.
Disclaimer: I will not buy a neck harness.
Neck curls
I have been doing these weekly since last spring but now that I think about it I have made very little gains. What does your neck workout look like and are there better options.
Disclaimer: I will not buy a neck harness.
Absolute boomer bullshit. Deadlift, shrug or stop being moronic.
Post neck.
I do these way beyond failure. First on my forehead, then on my chin, then I place it under my chin and stretch the neck, then bodyweight, then when I'm completely incapable of moving my head I use my arms to pull my head up and try to control the eccentric.
>I do these way beyond failure.
OP likely doesn't, and that's why he's seeing no progress.
>t. pencil neck, limp dick manlet with no clue what's going on
Pipe down, frodo. Lol. Lmao.
Post neck.
post neck
Post neck. Now.
none of these work the sternocleidomastoid you dumb mongoloid
Walk around on all 4s
Just do neck bridges you fricking idiot
Those take you straight to snap city, bub. (Also even if I wanted to do them I don’t have anywhere I could)
>Those take you straight to snap city, bub.
Such a meme. They will make kids do that in wrestling as a warmup. Just don't be a moron and you will be fine. That said, you need more mobility and you just aren't able to take it as far compared to neck curls. They're a nice accessory, nothing more.
>Taking fitness advice from junior school wrestling coaches
Tens of thousands of people, including kids, are doing neck bridges all the time and they are fine. This meme that the neck bridge is this mythically dangerous movement that you should only do under strict supervision and only of combat sports is just nonsense. It's fine.
NTA but wiggling your spine under load is generally not a great idea if you have better options. Tens of thousands of people are deadlifting with arched back and they're fine, until one time they're not. Same thing with neck except of all three sections of the spine cervical is the one you least want to frick with.
I don't believe that at all. There is absolutely no reason to think that spinal flexion, one of the main functions of the spine, is any more inherently injurious than keeping the spine straight. The people with the strongest spines in the world are the people who jefferson curl 300lbs.
If you can deadlift 600+ conventionally no shit you can safely do 300 with a rounded back. Gaining back strength and muscle will protect the spine, but if your max deadlift is 300 and you’re doing 300 rounded like a fishing rod you’re asking to get your shit fricked up.
>one of the main functions of the spine
Lateral flexion and rotation are natural functions of the spine as well. Do you think twisting and bending sideways simultaneously under a heavy ass load is a good idea too?
You do understand that spinal disc herniation is infinitely more likely to occur during flexed intervertebral compression than unflexed intervertebral compression, right?
You do understand that under heavy loads the "structural resistance" needs to be provided by your spinal erectors and not your bones because the latter is gonna be insufficient anyway, right?
>Lateral flexion and rotation are natural functions of the spine as well. Do you think twisting and bending sideways simultaneously under a heavy ass load is a good idea too?
If you train for it, yes.
You do understand that the structural resistance of an arch is greater than that of a straight line, right ?
Now do the other three directions. There's a reason the neck machine is a four way neck machine.
Neck machine?
Neck machine is goat
i think neck curls are great and have good luck with them. i would recommend 3-4 sets 2-3 times a week though. with such a small muscle once a week is probably not enough. upright rows to my eyes and close grip OHP has made my traps explode in the last year
I do upright rows every now and then even though I hear mixed things about them. Ohp and shrugs are shoulder staples for me, but that’s for traps and not the actual neck.
You are probably not using your neck muscles properly and lifting with the equivalent of a rounded back for deadlifts.
Personally? i do a shit eating grin and as little ROM as possible and got some neck gains without weights.
My migrains went away since I started training neck and traps so I don't even care if i get bigger, I'm quite thankful for what I've got
Has anyone tried isometric hold on neck training? Laying on the bench with head unsupported and holding it for minutes.
I'm afraid of weighted curls and this seems safer but would it be effective?
>I'm afraid of weighted curls and this seems safer but would it be effective?
Don't be. Simply add weight after you can do 20 bodyweight reps if you're feeling cautious. Isometrics might work but never as effectively as getting a proper stretch.
if anything isometrics are more dangerous because you get no stretch. there's nothing dangerous about a perfectly natural movement unless you go full moron and add too much load. obviously this is an exercise for high volume, not 5x5 or stupid shit like that.
work the neck often
you could get away with doing it every single day
but if not then at least 4-5 times per week
let me guess you do it like once a week?
moron meme
Do them with shrugs and high reps.
your form is most likely shit. if you do neck curls right you don't need any weight in the beginning and only a couple pounds after several weeks. your neck muscles are tiny and their only job is to take static and dynamic forces from your head. I scream internally every time I see someone take a 20kg plate to do "neck" curls.
Nobody commenting on the fact that OP trains neck only once a week
What’s a good amount then? I train abs, obliques and neck 1 time a week each
I did these when I started lifting and they with but then realised training neck directly is moronic and quit doing them. I would prefer if my neck was a bit smaller now tbqh