Neck Muscles
Train Your Neck With These Warm-ups
neck warm-up Article #2 topic: Neck Training Warm-Up and On-Field Strength Training When athletes are in-season it is imperative to continue to...
Don’t Buy a Crunch Bench: Try These Exercises Instead
Some benches are designed specifically for doing crunches, but they are not necessary. Crunch benches do not allow the abdominal muscles to experience the full range of motion needed to [...]
Protect Your Brain With This Neck Workout
Do you want to stay concussion-free during the football season? To potentially reduce your risk of a head injury, start training your neck. Stronger neck muscles may reduce the concussive [...]
Build Neck and Shoulder Strength to Stay Healthy for Football
Needless to say, football is an extremely physical game. NFL players play 20 games each year (pre-season and season), plus playoff games if they're lucky. This adds up to around [...]
Stay in the Game With Off-Season Baseball Flexibility Training
Most baseball players work on their hitting, fine-tune their pitching or work out to get stronger during the off-season. (Learn how to get stronger for baseball. However, this is also [...]
Three Shoulder Exercises to Add to Your Upper-Body Training
Regardless of their sport, athletes rely on strong shoulders to throw, hit, catch, rebound, shoot or tackle, so training this powerful muscle is really important. Build up your shoulders with [...]
The Best Exercises to Build Shoulder and Neck Strength
Strong shoulder and neck muscles are essential in almost all sports, particularly those involving contact, pushing or throwing. During off-season and in-season weight training sessions, athletes should focus on strengthening [...]
Develop Neck Strength to Prevent Head and Neck Injuries
Neck muscles, although often overlooked, are important for athletes. In addition to moving the head to react to a play, they also stabilize the head during a crushing tackle or [...]
Neck Power with the Baltimore Ravens
The Baltimore Ravens have a rep as one of the fiercest hitting defenses in the league. Without regular neck strengthening and stretching, their power hitters could experience serious injury. But [...]