How do football players and other non combat athletes train their neck?

[Pacmanjay]

Other than wrestlers, football players and some people who don't do anything but lift weights sometimes have necks big as or bigger than Mike Tyson. I know football players work their neck with bridges or harnesses, but how about those bodybuilders who just do shrugs. How do they have big necks also? I know shrugs work the rear lower portion of the neck muscles but they don't do **** for the rest of the neck. And what exactly do these football players do? I know they don't neck bridge as much as wrestlers and yet they have even bigger necks.

[pigdestroyer]

http://www.fitnesspillars.com/neck_exercises.html

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/ExList/NeckWt.html

During summers I used to work out with the college football students, they do a lot of things similar to this. Don't forget that playing the game builds your neck tremendously.

[Talon]

at my friend's high school they had a neck resistance machine that you would actually sit in for the football players

[F l i c k e r]

wtf? I dont think they specifically target their necks.

Squats, lat pulldowns, pull ups. they all strengthen the trapezius. therefore their neck has a strong base. Hence fat necks on linebackers and linemen. I never worked my neck or saw anyone in the weight room working their neck when I played football.

So from a football player's perspective, we dont do it.

Then again I played Corner and tackled the proper way. With the shoulder not the head.