Neck training?

[Scott Bolinger]

lie your your stomach with your hands to your side, then look left to right about 20 times, then turn over on you back, keeping your head off the gound and look left to right 20 times.

[Koma1]

Get Matt Fureys combat conditioning! Wrestlers bridges are my favorite neck exercise of all time.

[shirase]

definitely do neck bridges, ive been doing them for maybe 4 monthes and my neck is way stronger than it used to be. Not only does it make your neck tough but if you get to more advanced ones like the ones where you spin around and change from front bridge into back bridge then it should really benefit your agility and how comfortable you are maneuvering on the ground(great for grappling). I personally cant say much to whether its bad for your vertebrae ive read some articles that say it makes them stronger but ive read some that say it could cause lots of damage. Personally ive only had my neck hurt only the first few times i did it, but i think that was more due to a bad understanding of the movement. If you are worried though then you can start off only balancing on your head and lifting your upper back off the ground, and slowly progressing into lifting your butt off the ground.

[Jim_Kelly]

My name's Jim Kelly, and I've been OBSESSED with neck training for a long time, since first getting into wrestling and especially BJJ because of the chokes.

And I've seen way too many of my good friends, training partners and ever coaches get forced off the mats because of neck injuries related to submission grappling, wrestling and MMA.

So I did tons of neck exercises, studied everything I could about working out the neck and asked every "expert" I could (mostly wrestlers with big, strong necks) how they trained.

I built up my neck as much as I could, then something crazy happened...

The summer before my Senior year of HS, I had to get an emergency C1-C2 fusion after experiencing some numbness... I have the newspaper articles posted on my blog at Grappling With Success

But more importantly, I have a site called www.GrapplersProtectYourNeck.com and it's something I'm really excited about!

The doctors told me that if it weren't for the muscles in my neck being built up so much, I would've surely been dead, or at best, in a wheelchair. So to put it bluntly, the neck training that I did SAVED MY LIFE.

And even after my injury, after a C1-C2 fusion, I'm STILL wrestling, grappling, I'm a purple belt in BJJ and I'm currently training for my first mixed martial arts fight. I'm able to train HARD and compete with anyone.

So I'd like to share my knowledge with anyone who's willing to listen, I'll post more on here too, but check out my site at No More Neck Problems!! because I know it'll help out a lot of people who are currently having neck problems and also grapplers who want to prevent neck injuries so they can stay on the mats doing what we love to do.

Neck injuries SUCK, there are a lot of us out here who've experienced them, so I'd love to hear from people and get their stories. The positive responses I've gotten since launching www.GrapplersProtectYourNeck.com has been really overwhelming.

Respect. No Excuses. Protect Your Neck!

Jim Kelly
Team Lloyd Irvin
http://www.GrapplersProtectYourNeck.com

[jubaji]

Bridges and whathaveyou aside, wrestlers get strong (or missing) necks from wrestling.


So, for everyone's safety I recommend that you all take up wrestling immediately!

[matbla]

any videos on how to do this

[Jim_Kelly]

Neck Training, Neck Exercises and Neck Conditioning for Grappling, MMA and Wrestling

I'll be posting videos on these exercises soon on my blog, www.GrapplingInTheTrenches.com

I've been getting a TON of questions on what my opinion of neck bridging is, and I'll tell ya, that's how I initially built my neck up, bridges including lots of other direct manual neck exercises and also equipment, like the 4-way neck machine and the neck harness.

I also have every piece of neck equipment you could possibly think of, and USE them ALL.

Thing is though, you have to work up to neck bridges and other more dynamic neck exercises. I have a TON of these exercises in my arsenal, and I use them ALL. Every kind of neck exercise you can imagine, I do. I have to. I have no choice, really.

As a person who's suffered from a neck injury, it's my duty to do EVERYTHING I can to prevent any more injuries. And I want to prevent other grapplers who love this sport as much as I do to avoid these kinds of injuries as well. We're all out there, there are lots of us.

As soon as I post some videos, I'll be sending the links out through www.GrapplersProtectYourNeck.com and I'll post them here as well too.

Thanks guys,

RESPECT.

Jim Kelly
Team Lloyd Irvin
http://www.GrapplersProtectYourNeck.com

[jubaji]

........................bump

[hoov]

get a stability ball and put it on the wall push into the ball with your head sides, front, back w/e better done at home so you do not look to weird, but it does work.

[JadeDragon]

Neck bridges are great. Lay on your back and get up on your heals and the back of your head and rock back and forth. Then when you can do that with out getting sore you can spin/twist so that your on your forehead and toes and rock back and forth. Wrestlers and football players do this. My wrestling coach would say "We don't want any pencil necks on the team".

[matbla]

i find here on this board you all do not know how to stick to topic and you should know why

[JadeDragon]

i find here on this oard you all do m=not know how to stick to topic

Why is that?

[Tee Sok]

not to stray too far from the original thread here, but did you know Bruce Dickinson was, for a time, one of the top-ranked amateur fencers in the world?

Yes true, and Maiden also are into epic wars and battles (Alexander The Great, Mother Russia, The Trooper, Aces High......great songs with good lyrics).
I second George when he says to work your neck out really slowly, it really works out well. The neck muscles work much more and there is much less risk. I tried really slow push ups and abs as well and it does pay off too.