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Boomer 373737
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- Oct 9, 2022
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Your neck is important for fighting and I want to know what part of your neck does this exercise work.
3letterslong
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- Oct 9, 2022
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Boomer 373737 said:
Your neck is important for fighting and I want to know what part of your neck does this exercise work.
Once you get strong enough, you'll be able to work your entire neck by rocking forward, backward and side-to-side. But you shouldn't start there because that's a lot of weight to put on an untrained neck. Look up some neck progressions. I personally used static holds and high rep neck work to get to full wrestling bridges, but even now I prefer static holds / high rep work because I don't like the bend in the neck from wrestler bridges.
Kev
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- Oct 9, 2022
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Neck harness work is also viable. As is wearing a hat and holding a plate on your forehead while lying on a bench and simply nodding. This can be done to the side too. The guys at jailhouse strong also have an exercise that requires no equipment and merely involves nodding.
Just holding a headstand is a good start. I believe it was John Wood who said “Night train” by James Brown was a good target duration for holding a headstand.
tomstranger
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- Oct 9, 2022
- #4
@Madboi assuming u n Boomer r not the same person, here’s a thread that may be of interest.
John K
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- Oct 9, 2022
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Boomer 373737 said:
Your neck is important for fighting and I want to know what part of your neck does this exercise work.
The muscles?
ShawnM
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- Oct 9, 2022
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Thai Boxers have been know to loop a towel through a weight and bite down on the ends and do neck raises to strengthen their neck and jaw muscles to protect themselves from knock outs. I have done this in the past and it works, however your jaw hurts like hell for a few hours.
3letterslong
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- Oct 9, 2022
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ShawnM said:
Thai Boxers have been know to loop a towel through a weight and bite down on the ends and do neck raises to strengthen their neck and jaw muscles to protect themselves from knock outs. I have done this in the past and it works, however your jaw hurts like hell for a few hours.
Old timey boxers used to chew some type of tree bark to strengthen their jaws. (They also used to pickle their faces with brine so they wouldn't get cut as easily. They were pretty hardcore.)
Kev
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- Oct 10, 2022
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ShawnM said:
Thai Boxers have been know to loop a towel through a weight and bite down on the ends and do neck raises to strengthen their neck and jaw muscles to protect themselves from knock outs. I have done this in the past and it works, however your jaw hurts like hell for a few hours.
If I wasn’t a victim of west of Scotland dentistry and sugar intake as a child I would employ this method for sure.
Pavel Macek
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Sinister
- Oct 10, 2022
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From the StrongFirst RESILIENT manual:
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3letterslong
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- Oct 10, 2022
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Pavel Macek said:
From the StrongFirst RESILIENT manual:
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View attachment 19301More info: StrongFirst RESILIENT | StrongFirst
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Thanks for posting this! I didn't even know Strongfirst had an opinion on wrestler bridges, let alone gave instruction for them.
watchnerd
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- Oct 10, 2022
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John K said:
The muscles?
12 week neck hypertrophy cycle to get the neck muscles all pumped and swole.
Just don't use BFR.
Opiaswing
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- Oct 10, 2022
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It surprises me that Strongfirst endorses wrestlers bridge. Tyson was a big proponent of them in his earlier years and later needed surgery on the discs in his cervical spine. He said the exercise ruined his neck.
Stick to resistance band work for your neck.
Pavel Macek
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Sinister
- Oct 11, 2022
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Opiaswing said:
It surprises me that Strongfirst endorses wrestlers bridge. Tyson was a big proponent of them in his earlier years and later needed surgery on the discs in his cervical spine. He said the exercise ruined his neck.
Stick to resistance band work for your neck.
StrongFirst RESILIENT features many next-strengthening exercises: mobility drills, manual resistance, wall neck drills, Paul Anderson's neck roll, wall, and floor 360 degrees, neck roll, front bridge, neck bridge, cervical spine decompression - and for most folks, recommends manual resistance exercises and so-called rolling neck bridge: safe, effective. The manual also covers an extra article about neck training.
John K
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- Oct 11, 2022
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For more about neck training, Stronger By Science just put out an article on Neck Strength Training. It talks about the different neck movements, muscles involved, exercises you can do, programming, and relationship between neck strength and injury.
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