Well, I go to a lot of hardcore rock shows and like to headbang really hard. If you don’t train your neck for that kind of activity you’re likely to get whiplash. Also, all you need a nicely developed neck to fill out dress shirts properly. Maybe a pencil neck works if you’re a quant Phd, but for most guys you need a thick, bull neck.
All of this neck workout talks make me think I belong at Planet Fitness.
Jimeny Christmas.
I’ll be honest, I’m surprised more of you BSD’s don’t have home gyms. I love watching my own TV, in my own nice clean and quiet facility, without all the hassels and travel time required with going to the gym.
Zero motivation to workout at home. I used to have a bench but sold it as it was just being used as a coat rack.
Having cash leave your account each month is a little bit of a motivator, gym can also be social if you go with colleagues, meet chicks there etc.
My football coach used to refer to them as “beach exercises”.
I have a stripped down CF “gym” in my garage (i.e. pull up bar, oly bar and some weights). i was just laying out the grand plans for a full gym/poolhouse at my house. i’d like to do that with my backyard project - sunroom off the back of my house, opening to a covered patio/outdoor kitchen, inground pool, thow in a grotto and some ex-playboy bunnies (I’ll take the 28 yo has beens on the cheap) that would be some complete baller shit. some day…soon hopefully.
^ A true baller would have a retractable glass roof over the pool.
Those who wrestled or competed in martial arts know the importance of neck exercises. Shin conditioning sucks but is a must for muy thai. I still do the former but no longer partake in shin conditioning.
Do you kick a coconut tree to harden your shins?
I used to do body hardening when I was in the Marine Corps. And when I played football, I did neck strengthening exercises.
Now I’m an accountant who sits at a desk all day long. The only neck exercises I get are when I go back and forth from monitor 1 to monitor 2. And the only shin conditioning is when I accidentally run into a desk.
Believe it or not, I’m okay with this. I don’t plan on having to fire out and hit a defensive lineman, nor do I plan on getting into mortal kombat anytime soon.
^
Tekken is where it’s at.
Great, a fat guy with a skinny neck. What the hell.
take a towel and put a 25lb weight through it and bite down on the two ends of the towel. Your neck and your wife will love me for this,
^ Do you really enjoy the gym so much?
I have to drag myself there everyday, hate it. That one hour can be spent doing exercise which is far more fun.
Okay.
I took a towel, and ran it through the hole in the middle of a 25 lb weight and set the weight on my desk. Then I gnawed on the end of the towel.
Nope. Don’t feel anything. Except I now have a wet towel on the end where I slobbered on it.
LMAO
Read my previous post. I use the gym as a social club too. I meet a lot of people from different backgrounds, gender and age. I put out my idea of travelling the world for a year to a few people there and got some good input.
You’d be surprised how big biceps attract HCBs. I used to have close to 18 inch biceps and the attention I received during the summer was something else. I noticed everytime a woman would be touchy, she would grab my bicep and squeeze it. As if she felt more protected with a guy that had big guns. For some reason, my pecs and biceps grew 10 times faster than my shoulders and back.
I do. But only on the advice from some hardass old man out in the Asian jungle. When I decided to avenge the crippling of my brother many years ago in the underground kickboxing circuit, one thing I realized was that over time, kicking a hardwood tree until my shins scarred over with the hardness of a Pachycephalosaurus skull provided an extreme advantage in the ring with mean-looking, jacked Asian dudes with a bandana wrapped around their mullet. What was great and highly unexpected about it was that I didn’t actually break my tibia doing it, which was awesome.
As an aside, I enjoy hanging out on abandoned temple grounds while listening to eagles scream in the background while I meditate. Occasionally, I air-kickbox there while a 1980’s power ballad plays and I flashback to my brother getting his ass kicked. It is really motivating.