Neck Stretches Front to Back

Series Summary

There are many benefits to a routine of stretching exercises. Many people want to lose weight, and despite claims for quick fat burning pills and powders, the best way to lose weight is still through proper diet and exercise. Exercise does more than just maintain physical fitness though. Working out can also help build healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility. It can also reduce your general health risks, boost the immune system, and help with depression and insomnia. Whether your reason for exercising is to lose weight, or improve muscle mass, working out is always a good idea to help promote the health of your body and mind.

In this free video series, our expert will teach you how to do a full body stretching routine perfect after a workout. You will learn how to do neck stretches, shoulder stretches and bicep stretches. You will also learn how to stretch the triceps, chest, hip flexors and quad muscles. Get tips from our fitness instructor on how to do hamstring stretches, gluteal stretches and finally a full body stretch. If you are exercises regularly it's important to stretch, so learn how in this free stretching video.

Video Transcript

"Stretching: starting with cervical muscles. Stretching is a vital part of any program design. It prevents injury, you are strengthening the muscle in an elongated position and therefore enhancing the integrity of all of your stabilizers and attachments, and preventing injury. The neck is a very intricate movable joint, front to back, side to side. In order to stretch, you find your active range of motion forward, bringing the chin into your chest. You are going to feel muscles down into your traps, the base of your neck activate. Don't go any further than when you feel yourself coming out of neutral position. You want to start neutral, chin over your chest, breath throughout nice and slow. Control the momentum. Stretching back while we are flexing the neck. In the back of the neck, make sure you have got a nice line between the chin and your neck. You don't want to come so far back that you are looking at the ceiling (that's too far). You want a nice stretch from A to neutral and B to neutral. It's a good idea, the whole stretch is 10. Working your way up to 30 seconds, breathing and activating the central nervous system throughout."