How to strengthen your neck using head harness?

Neck strength is vital to all fighting sports. Whether it’s for taking a punch, resisting a throw or ground fighting, your neck strength is essential to your fight game. You might have seen Anthony Joshua, Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather and many more lifting weight using neck or head harness. There are various workouts in which head harness is used and are a great way to strengthen neck muscles. Are you also interested in knowing how you can strengthen your neck using head harness? Keep on reading.

Listed below are some neck strengthening exercises that can be done using head harness.

• Lying face side head harness neck resistance

It is an effective exercise to strengthen all lateral muscles of the neck – scalene, splenius, clavisternomastoid and semispinal muscles. Here are the steps included in this workout:

·         Begin with lying on your side on a flat bench with shoulder on its edge. Head strap should be fixed on head with chain and weight hanging down. Look straight ahead. Your neck should be parallel to the floor.

·         Slowly incline your head to the shoulder as low as possible.

·         Lift your head up to the same angle and exhale.

·         Repeat the steps several times.

• Lying face up head harness neck resistance

This exercise will help you strengthen the muscles in the front of your neck. Have a look on the steps for this exercise.

·         Begin with lying on a flat bench with your face up and harness strap fixed on your head. The starting position of your head for this exercise is parallel to the floor.

·         Lift your head to the highest position.

·         Bring your head back to the starting position.

·         Repeat the aforementioned steps for required amount of time.

• Seated head harness neck resistance

This is perhaps the most intense neck strengthening workout. Have a look on its steps.

·         Sit at the end of the flat bench with your feet opened wider than your shoulder width and toes pointed out.

·         Slowly move your torso forward until it is almost parallel to the floor. Securely position the head harness strap around your head using your hands and place them on your knees. This is the starting position.

·         Slowly move your neck downwards until your chin touches your chest’s upper part while inhaling.

·         Bring your neck to starting position while exhaling.

·         Repeat the steps several times.

There are several neck strengthening exercises and aforementioned were the ideal ones that can be done using head harness.