JonnyStead

Hey All - I've been toying with using a neck sling and I wondered what you guys have experienced with them? Good or not so good?

I'm 34 - when am I officially an old fart?

JonnyStead

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I'm 34 - when am I officially an old fart?

Yanick

I guess it could be helpful if you have certain postural imbalances that you would like to correct with resistance exercise, but it offers nothing that you can't achieve with a weight plate and a towel.

"...we have to remember that training is a complicated dance of stimuli and response. Our goal is to understand how to manipulate the stimuli in order to evoke the responses we desire." -Nathan J. Polenchek

JonnyStead

OK - do you guys do those sorts of exercises (isolating the neck) then? with a sling or with a towel etc?

I'm 34 - when am I officially an old fart?

danny81

I do, but that is because I box. it made my neck alot stronger, but so do neck bridges.

Yanick

Neck bridges as well as wrapping a plate in a towel and doing flexion/extension/lateral flexion with the plate placed on the forehead/back of your head/side of you head respectively. Doing neck flexion against resistance might actually aggravate certain muscle imbalances if not balanced out with proper stretching of the anterior neck musculature and strengthening of the posterior neck musculature. The more i get into movement/posture analysis the more i see that 9/10 people have a forward protruding head (including me). I presently do isometric holds against a wall with the back of my head for 30 sec either randomly throughout the day or deliberately after a workout to try and correct my forward leaning head, as well i stretch the anterior neck musculature.

"...we have to remember that training is a complicated dance of stimuli and response. Our goal is to understand how to manipulate the stimuli in order to evoke the responses we desire." -Nathan J. Polenchek