Neck strengthening

**tephlon** · Posted On: 11/14/2005 2:48pm

I need to strengthen my neck for the clinch. My neck muscles are really weak at the moment and I am having trouble keeping my positure and position in the clinch, that and my neck cains for a few days after.

You guys know of any "safe", good exercises to do to strengthen it (other than clinching more)?

Thanks in advance

**PEtrainer** · Posted On: 11/14/2005 2:52pm

wrestlers bridge

You can also resist against a towel that you pull on and control the level of stress

**Judah Maccabee** · Posted On: 11/14/2005 2:53pm

SEARCH

FUNCTION

NOOB

G-DDAMMIT.

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/show...highlight=neck

**lawdog** · Posted On: 11/14/2005 3:10pm

Effective, yes. There are many. Safe, I'm not as sure about. I was a wrestler and have done hours and hours of neck bridging, both front and back. Probably the most effective way to strengthen the neck that I've ever tried. I'm not so sure that they're safe for your cervical spine though.

The neck harness is also effective, but also potentially harmful.

Developing your traps will help a great deal with neck strength.

PE Trainer's suggestion about the towel is a good one. That isn't as effective as neck bridges, but they do work and I don't think they are as potentially harmful as the neck bridges.

**BackFistMonkey** · Posted On: 11/14/2005 3:23pm

http://www.aafp.org/afp/990115ap/331_f3.gif

was not at all what I pictured when you said

cervical spine

**lawdog** · Posted On: 11/14/2005 3:27pm

Originally Posted by BackFistMonkey

http://www.aafp.org/afp/990115ap/331_f3.gif

was not at all what I pictured when you said

I'm almost afraid to ask, but what were you thinking of?

The reason I said cervical spine is because I think the neck bridges are great for the neck muscles, it's just the discs, and ligaments of the neck that I'm not so sure about.

**BackFistMonkey** · Posted On: 11/14/2005 3:38pm

I was thinking HPV-ish cancerous type growths that would turn a cervics into something that looks like

I figured it was a typo or something . But NO ... you werent making a funny or a typo ...

***Cassius*** · Posted On: 11/14/2005 4:19pm

As has already been said: Neck bridges, neck bridges, and more neck bridges.

For strengthening the traps, I suggest shrugs with dumbbells. I love 'em.