Home Gym: How to Avoid Neck Pain with Lifting Weights

Sunday, September 4, 2016

How to Avoid Neck Pain with Lifting Weights





It's is MONDAY! Thank God for a new week and a new workout to try!!

Your #sheLIFT's workout for today is:
Banded Chest Day

20 chest press
20 alternating punches, right leg
20 alternating punches, left leg
20 chest flyes
20 push ups 
➡️Complete 3x through.

BUT, make sure to warm-up first with some arm swings, torso twists, good mornings, foam rolling the upper back, stretch out those wrists, shoulder blade squeezes and shrugs and maybe a few jumping jacks or light jump rope skips.

Print the workout out below to keep with you for future reference.


Today's tip of the day for this workout is to keep your jaw relaxed.  As we do upper body exercises we tend to tighten our jaw, hold our breathe, and create all sorts of tension in our neck and spine.  So keep the mouth slightly open, the neck relaxed by looking ahead at the horizon, focusing on breathing throughout the movement, and keeping our traps relaxed.  One way I do this is to think shoulder roll...UP, BACK, DOWN, and lock them in there...

As soon as you feel your traps creeping up toward your ears.  Relax. Let out a big breath, and do the same shoulder roll movement again to lock them back down.  You may have to repeat this many times for awhile until it becomes muscle memory at some point.


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