Neck work...How many work their neck?

[Behemoth]

My stats are as follows...

I'm 6'2 and this morning weighed in at 275 lbs.

I am down from 302 lbs.

My body fat percentage is constantly decreasing...

I have to wear a 19 in the collar. I'm in a suit constantly. Have never worked neck because I simply have a hard enough time getting dress shirts.

How many of you work neck consistently and what are the tradeoffs....

 

[Behemoth]

Wow...19 viewers...out of 19...two of us are not doing any neck work...

 

[oso0690]

I was one of them! lol I don't work my neck but it develops along with yoke development

 

[blut wump]

I used to work neck every session at one time but haven't done it in years. I remember trying to make a wrestler's bridge a couple of months ago and was shocked to find that my neck couldn't handle it.

The downside to working neck in the gym was the occasional time when I'd put something out due to poor warmups. There are a lot of small muscles in there.

 

[Tweakle]

I do neck curls with a 25lb plate on my head, slowly.. just to keep things in alignment

 

[bignate73]

i havent in a while, i gotta get back on it. my neck always felt good with some direct work.

 

[thelion2005]

I have always worked my neck because I believed neck, arms and calves were to be equal for ideal proportions. I also reasoned that a muscular neck was a requirement for a healthy body.

As I grew older, I had the added challenge of preventing "turkey neck" and jowls, which is simply the down pull of gravity on weak muscles.

My routine is done twice a week on push day. I do 3 x 12 neck raises laying on back, rt & lft side, and back... 144 reps total. For the reps while laying on my back, I place a towel and a 50 lb plate on my forehead.

I finish the routine by doing facial isometrics using my finger tips.

Neck size changes with my body weight, but never under 18".

 

[kethnaab]

i don't work neck, ever

deadlifts, squats, heavy rowing, rack pulls, shrugs...anything that works traps and cause me to get all "big 'n' puffy-necked" seems to get my neck big

and I'm right behind the OP, 18.75", @ 5'8, 225 lbs

 

[Chambewy20]

I'm starting to want to more and more although I don't know a lot of exercises that work or how to train it. I do the shrug stuff but can't squat or dead for the time being and I miss the yoke days....

I really miss the days when I had a permanent set of scabs on the top of my traps, can't wait until they are back....

 

[blut wump]

I used to get scabs on the tops of my traps from squatting years ago. I'm using more weight now and squatting more often for more sets and reps and never get them. Maybe extra BF or extra traps mass is protecting me.

 

[Chambewy20]

Ya know I think I got them the worst on DE days when your constantly under the bar, not really setting up, just getting under it and squatting your ass off... Back when 405 was a light day

Like the Bunkers said... "those were the days!!!"

 

[cwick0]

If u were playing football or wrestling, then by all means u should work your neck.

However, with a 19.5" neck myself, dress shirts are impossible to find. If you get lucky and find one, then the body is for that of a 400lb man. Needless to say...custom shirts are the easiest method of getting dress shirts, about $85. So, i havent worked my neck in about 10 years or so.

 

[DannoMight]

I wrestled for over 13 years that was enough neck work to make it almost go away.

 

[TheOak84]

i do shrugs

but also using the head strap/harness. if i cant get a hold of one, i go on the hip machine, and put the pad behind my head and do some extensions

 

[Longhorn85]

used to have a great machine for it when I was at Fort Hood, Tx. Lots of Army guys used it because the larger the neck, the lower the bodyfat using the Army's antique method of measurement (tape).

Haven't worked it in a while. I do a lot of squats and lap swimming so hopefully it gets some work anyway.

 

[DannoMight]

heavy deads will work some of your neck.

 

[Chambewy20]

Good article on the old yoke...

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/the_yoke.htm

I aspire to not have a neck, just a yoke....

 

[c3bodybuilding]

I don't. Years of heavy deads have made my neck fairly thick.

 

[carlsuen]

pls excuse my ignorance..

fuckinunbelievable! it's like the same with working your cawk! lol!! there was a vid posted awhile ago.. this dude could actually hold his girl in penetration for like a few seconds.. freakin hilarious!! haha!!

(sorry for hijacking)