Protect Your Neck During Workouts

hey Dr Ryan alter your Del re Beach
chiropractor today I want to talk about
Fitness and working out and how it
affects the neck and what to be careful
of the key the key when you’re working
out when it comes to your neck is that
your neck is in a neutral position
neutral meaning the nose is straight out
the ears are Level over the shoulder so
this is neutral this is neutral from the
side here are some examples of not
neutral okay this
this so when you’re doing say a bench
press activity the neck is straight it
doesn’t start to go like this when
you’re doing say a rope pull down a
tricep extension we’re not looking over
in the mirror while we strain our neck
doing this okay always in a neutral
position even with lower body things the
neck is neutral even with a planking
type thing the neck is neutral it’s not
up in extension you have to be careful
cuz you don’t realize say in a in a bend
over row people will look up like this
you see what this neck position is this
is called extension we want it neutral
neutral so that if I took my whole body
and came up I’m in this neutral position
we’re always anchoring to neutral you’re
not doing anything and talking to
someone over there you wind up tweaking
your neck we’re building muscle we need
to be in a neutral posture and athletic
posture with the neck position straight
nose straight out I hope that helps
we’re here in Del re to help you and and
everyone you know feel your best