There is no one best exercise for neck pain, just the best one for you at a given time.
Knowing which one is right is why you first need to test your neck strength. This finds what is weak and which exercise will remedy the weakness.
If you don’t first test, you’re just guessing. And if you’re guessing, you’re wasting time!
Once you identify the weakness, you can set the exercise.
Once you know the exercise, you need to know how much the neck can tolerate.
Simply, how many reps can you do before pain, or fatigue sets in.
If you just guess 10 reps, but you can only tolerate 4 then the other 6 could be problematic, flare up your pain or induce a level of fatigue too high for you.
The next important step is rest, how much rest do you need between sets of the same exercise or between exercises.
Again, you cant guess this! You need to be certain. If your weak, you’ll need more time between sets or even reps before you go again.
If your lacking endurance, you’ll need to work into fatigue, then allow enough rest to perform the same amount or more on the next set.
Are you confused yet?
If you are just your every day person, without an understanding of exercise physiology and science, you probably are and beginning to think “josh what are you on about!”
Exercise is not just something you do, it is like a drug.
- If you use too much you get side effects,
- If you use too little it doesn’t work
- If you use the wrong one, you don’t get better at all!
