Training Neck Muscles?

[Deathfyre]

I just noticed there's nothing in here about training neck muscles, is it worthwhile to train these? What are some good excercises for training them?

Thanks

 

[bman]

mabye shrugs. i dont do anything special that i would think would train a neck and my neck really grew. closest thing i can think of is shrugs.

 

[White Ninja]

same here, I gained weight and it grew. I didn't do any specific neck exercises

 

[DIESEL]

I personally don't train my neck muscles - because my neck is big enough as it is... for most people shrugs do plenty..

however, if you play a sport where your head takes a beating - like wrestling or if you play linebacker or fullback, then you need a thick neck..

you can either use the Hammer Strength neck machine or see if your gym has this thing called a "halo" or a leather harness that looks like a leather crown that you put on your head with a chain you attach to a lat pulldown station so you can work your neck.

Be careful on how much weight you use, tweaking your neck is no fun!

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[Vronski]

I use my hands and body weight as resistance.

Hands:

Put your hands behind your head and resist while you shift your head backwards.
Then resist going from side to side.


Body weight:

Lying on your back, raise your butt first, then raise your whole body with your neck muscles. When you did a lot of these, you can start rotating your head.

My ex freaked out at my neck when she saw me after a year. Now my neck is like I'm a WWF guy or something. Need more work on my hands though.


But be sure you stretch a lot before you do it. It's really easy to pull something.

Or you can just work your breast, back and legs and it will grow too.