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[Neo_ZX]

I find that doing traps doesn't necessarily thicken your neck. Are there any specific exercises or is it just a work in progress as you do the surrounding/complimentary muscles?

 

[StoOgE]

I would suggest falling on your head.. alot.

 

[Lil' Dice]

Free- squats help. Also, Anlge is/was a freestyle wrestler, and in wrestling we used to do neck excercises where you arch your back and prop yourself up using the back of your head. Then you'd lift/lower your neck, almost like a neck push-up. Do this frontways, and sideways.

 

[Future Trunks]

I find that doing traps doesn't necessarily thicken your neck. Are there any specific exercises or is it just a work in progress as you do the surrounding/complimentary muscles?

If Angle has been wrestling forever, then he's bee doing a lot of those neck rolling exercises that wrestlers do to warm up - so he probably developed his neck that way. But there are neck exercises with machines or simple headgear devices that you can do where you lift the weight from the from, back, and sides...but I wouldn't recommend it if you weren't advanced enough in lifting (you could damage your neck if you do things improperly).

The olympic style powerlifts that wrestler do (the various pulls, cleans, jerks, etc) may also develop the base of the neck because of the strain put on such areas when pulling the weight.

Edit: Eh, Dice beat me.

 

[Neo_ZX]

Are you laying on your back when you do those? How are your knees bent? I can't really visualize the position.

 

[Future Trunks]

Your pelvis is in the air. Your feet are flat. It's like that reverse crab thing except you're on your neck and not soley your hands/arms. back facing the floor.

Also, the other way is the same as the above, but your stomach faces the floor rather than your back.

And you just roll back and forth on your neck. Slowly of course.

 

[Lil' Dice]

Are you laying on your back when you do those? How are your knees bent? I can't really visualize the position.

The gol is to keep your back/stomack/sides and hands off the floor when you do it. Keep the weight on your neck by propping yourself up using your head; then do slow lifts using the neck....

 

[StoOgE]

yeah, in all seriousness you do need to be carefull.. screwing up your neck is pretty easy thing to do and is a very hard thing to fix. Wrestlers (both the real variety and the WWE type) have big necks because they work them out but they are also very prone to neck injuries... granted Kurts injuries are more from doing a few too many moonsaults than anything you would ever experience..

check your gym, there are some contraptions in the machine side of things for necks.. my gym has a couple but I cant figure out how to use the thing and dont want to look like an idiot :lol

 

[Lil' Dice]

Here's a better explanation:

Here are a couple of neck exercises that I and a couple of the guys I train do:

Basic Wrestlers Bridge-lay on your back and do a gymnastics bridge but instead of supporting yur self with your arms, support yourself with your neck. Put the top of your head on the floor and roll back on your head so that your nose touches the mat (or try to, it is hard and takes time to develop the proper flexibility).

Basic Wrestlers Front bridge-Kneel on the ground. Place you hands face down on the mat in front of you and place your forehead on the mat. Extend your legs behind you so that your body weight is supported by your neck. Roll your neck in circles.

Wall Exercise-Stand facing a wall. Using a towel to cushion your face, place your forehead against the wall. Step back a bit and let your body weight be supported by your neck. The more parallel to the floor you are the more pressure that is on your neck. You can perform a variation of the same exercise for the back and side neck muscles also.

Bench Exercise-lay on a weight bench or other flat surface like a table. Have your back supported but your head and neck off of the table. Place a weight (we started off with a 25lb'er) on your forehead, use a towel to cushion your head. Your goal is to keep your chin against your chest, to support the weight with the muscles of your neck. The goal here is to hold the weight for a full minute for three to five sets. When you can support the weight for a full minute you increase the weight. This is a really great exercise that was taught to me by the "Hooker" Tony Cecchine.

You could always buy a head/neck harness and do the standard front, back, side to side lifts

 

[jonhuz]

Easy: Drink milk whilst masturbating in a headlock.

 

[MrPing1000]

Easy: Drink milk whilst masturbating in a headlock.

It's THE AMERICAN DREAM!

 

[Lil' Dice]

Easy: Drink milk whilst masturbating in a headlock.

I can verifiy that the above does not work....

 

[Neo_ZX]

Wow these positions feel pretty dangerous. I think I'd better see someone do it properly first.

 

[scorcho]

shoulder shrugs and rear delt extensions work really well.

 

[Maxwell House]

Do tons of deadlifts for really thick traps, lats, etc. If you want a big, muscular cage behind your neck, deadlift, deadlift, deadlift. Go heavy too.

 

[pnjtony]

you don't want a neck like that...then it's a bitch to buy shirts with collars...you'll be stuck with dorky wrestling tank tops.

 

[Malakhov]

Who in hell would want a neck like that, it's awful.

 

[Maxwell House]

I didn't realize he meant actually thickening the NECK. I don't get that. Why would you want a thick neck? Thick traps look nice..girls dig em...but a THICK NECK? That guy's neck looks gross.

 

[DJ Sl4m]

Who in hell would want a neck like that, it's awful.

Exactely