Neck work - durability of the neck

[tcbender]

Don't do neck bridges. The best way is to use a neck strengthener, hang your head off the side of the ring lay on each of your sides, on your belly, and on your back and do reps. I used to use an 8lb and now I use a 10lb, but you need to work up or you can strain your neck. Do a set unweighted 1 set weighted and then a set unweighted and make sure you warm your neck up when you first start out. Make sure you have your chin tucked when doing the reps to engage the correct muscles or its wasted work.

You should also work out your shoulders and traps. Lat pull downs, wide grip pull ups, power cleans, bent over rows, etc to help build your neck.

[Offic.Scorecard]

Take Golovkin for example, he's doing the neck excercies and his neck still doesn't look big. Althought I've never seen him doing the neck bridges. But you should be carefull with those, don't overtrain or do too many reps.

[ecto55]

I did a hell off a lot of neck bridges when I was young, front back and to the sides, and statically with heavy weights, and yeah they are a great way to build up your neck. True also that Mike Tyson did them, but he had the body (and neck) of the hulk before doing them also, so....

How I didn't really hurt myself with them when young was probably only idiot's luck.

There are some great articles about now online on the inherent risks of neck bridging. They're a really good reality check...you can actually kill yourself by accident (literally) from doing bridges incorrectly.

Even without serious neck injuries (I naturally had niggles, but cannot be sure of the source) - I can say they weren't worth the risk.

I was told to do them not increase the neck's size (these ideas weren't even a thing when I was young) but as a means of taking a punch better (i.e. increased neck flexibility under load type). This type of training was best left in the 70's imo.

[Outboxxed]

I did a hell off a lot of neck bridges when I was young, front back and to the sides, and statically with heavy weights, and yeah they are a great way to build up your neck. True also that Mike Tyson did them, but he had the body (and neck) of the hulk before doing them also, so....

How I didn't really hurt myself with them when young was probably only idiot's luck.

There are some great articles about now online on the inherent risks of neck bridging. They're a really good reality check...you can actually kill yourself by accident (literally) from doing bridges incorrectly.

Even without serious neck injuries (I naturally had niggles, but cannot be sure of the source) - I can say they weren't worth the risk.

I was told to do them not increase the neck's size (these ideas weren't even a thing when I was young) but as a means of taking a punch better (i.e. increased neck flexibility under load type). This type of training was best left in the 70's imo.

I only do neck curls and think bridging is pointless. Thanks for the advice

[ShoulderRoll]

Neck bridging done correctly, working the exercise slowly and gradually increasing the time/difficulty, works.

It's been proven for generations. Not just by boxers but by wrestlers as well.

It might be too much to handle for the current generation, though. So finding other alternatives is probably a good idea.