Neck Exercises?

[Rakki]

Hi Guys

anyone doing any exercises for their Necks?

I'm 5'9.5 and a "naturally" walk around at 155lbs Once (when cycling on creatine and using HIT) I went up to 179lbs and loved it (plateaued there though

). Although my Shoulders and chest was somewhat developed I still had a "pencil neck".

I'm New to HST and still setting up my cycle but I'm already sold (this is some sound Science&#33 however looking at some of the sample routines I don't see any neck specific exercises. Anybody got any Ideas?

PS want a Neck more like Rickson Gracie that John Basdow

 

[imported_daxie]

You must have missed the "shrugs"...

 

[Aaron_F]

deadlifts, shrugs, Olympic pulls, rack pulls, direct neck work (get a harness.) etc

or gain 100lbs...

really

 

[Bob Evans]

You can do wrestlers bridges on a mat. Work all sides of the neck --left, right, back. But go slow the neck is an easy muscle to pull.

Bob

 

[Rakki]

Quote[/b] (Bob Evans @ June 05 2005,3:04)]You can do wrestlers bridges on a mat. Work all sides of the neck --left, right, back. But go slow the neck is an easy muscle to pull.
Bob

Neck Bridges huh?
actually I've started oing them, but not sure how to relate it to HST

 

[the_dark_master]

I used to train the old neck for rugby - but it's recently being highlighted that an overly muscled neck causes snoring - as the air ways are closed-up by "heavy" neck muscle when you sleep...

 

[wrestlingmark]

To get width you have to do exercises for the Sternocleidomastoid , which is the front and sides of the neck. Shrugs are for the back of the neck. I don't have access to a 4 way neck machine, nor a harness, so i use a weight plate placed over a towel and lay on a bench and it seems to work well for me. People in my gym always ask me what im doing when they see me doing this, i love it!

http://www.exrx.net/Muscles/Sternocleidomastoid.html

 

[Rakki]

Quote[/b] (wrestlingmark @ July 07 2005,10:44)]To get width you have to do exercises for the Sternocleidomastoid , which is the front and sides of the neck. Shrugs are for the back of the neck. I don't have access to a 4 way neck machine, nor a harness, so i use a weight plate placed over a towel and lay on a bench and it seems to work well for me. People in my gym always ask me what im doing when they see me doing this, i love it!

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Sternocleidomastoid/WtNeckFlx.html

yeap I've added this exercise to my routine and am pretty excited about it, this way you can increase the weight as opposed to Neck Bridges