Neck Health

Your neck it pretty important, it carries all signals from your brain to everywhere in your body so you can make controlled movement and be able to discern certain things like pain and feeling good. Without your neck, you wouldn't be able to do anything but think. So that's why it's important that you keep your neck strong and safe and free of injury.

You don't need a muscle bound neck to keep it strong and safe, but you do need some strength to keep it from being push out easily or twisted the wrong way. There are many neck exercises that you can do to keep it strong.

   Behind the head military press is one way to make your neck stronger, handstand push ups, and whatever those weird floor exercises in yoga are called where you hold your body up with your neck facing upwards or towards the floor. Those help a lot and keep your neck powerful and more resistant to quick forced movements and other dangers. You really will be thankful if your neck is strong and resistant to things that would normally inure it.

   First off, keep your neck healthy by not doing things that will cause it injury. For example, unless you've been working your way slowly into things, head spins are a perfect example of what not to do for your neck health. Headstands when not having a properly strong neck and arms are not advised as well. 

   If you are strong and have trained for those kinds of things to do them properly, go right on ahead because that is great strength practice as well as balance.

   Keeping your neck strong is far more important than making sure that your biceps or calves are sizing up to your desired proportions. People do neglect neck strength, now I will say that with upper body strength comes strength in the neck.

   

Neck Cracking:

You have no idea how irritating it is to me when I see people cracking their necks in a rough forceful way. Yeah sure, a little turn every now and then to see if it goes back in is fine, you're turning your head with the muscles in your neck instead of the muscles in your arms which are a whole lot stronger!

   You have a limitation with your neck muscles as to how far you turn your head and far you go back as well as forward and how hard you can turn it. Your arms however do not. So when you twist your head to the side, you are over stretching the muscles, over stretching the ligaments, anything that is vital in there, is being over stretched. And it causes more pain to go with the pain you are currently experiencing.

   Now if it's a bad habit, stop it right now, unless you want to be some cranky old person because you're neck hurts. The issue with a messed up neck is, is that it usually goes on to other places like your back, and if your neck hurts, it's also a signal from your body that you should take a rest to let it heal.

I'll tell you about how recently I did an exercise challenge and did too much of one exercise that required the trapezius. When I had done too much of it by the end of the day, I noticed that from my trapezius flexing so much,  it happened to have pushed the vertebrae had been pushed out of place and resulted in neck irritation. I felt oddly like a shirt tag was beneath my skin, and every time I did some kind of upper body exercise, handstands, handstand push ups, break dancing, handsprings, round offs, pull ups, weight lifting, it hurt. So I stopped for six days and didn't do anything until it didn't hurt any more.

   Now if it hurts really bad, your injury that is, you might very well need to see a chiropractor. If you are one of those idiots lost in your ignorance for concern of your health and say you don't have time for a chiropractic visit and you're going around in pain, well you're still an idiot and you need to see a doctor about that injury. If you don't I'll come over there and kick your butt into doing it! Well said? I think so.

   So to all who enjoy life and are in need of keeping a healthy neck, study neck exercises, learn about them, keep that neck healthy and it will serve you well and you'll be happy and feeling good.