How To Do Side Head Tilts Video

Side head tilts are a great way to open up your neck muscles. Try these exercises and stretches for your workout routine in this fitness video.

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Seated position is best
Inhale and exhale on opposite sides
Works front and back of neck
Sit up tall

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Amy McCauley has been a certified personal fitness trainer since 1995. She specializes in pilates, combat cardio, core conditioning and overall strength training. She works with clients ranging in age from 16 - 69. She has worked at Gold's Gym in Wilmington, NC since 2006. She loves her job because it gives her the opportunity to change peoples' lives in a positive way.

AMY MCCAULEY: Hi. I'm going to show you how to do a side head tilt. Seated position is the best for this one. Hands are down by your sides and take your shoulders rolling down the spines. Open up that neck. We want to really open up that space between your ear and your neck so we can really get the exercises get deep into this neck muscles. Head is going to drop ear to shoulder. You can put pressure in your palm (that's on the ball or on the chair). Inhale up, exhale to the other side, hold for about 2 seconds, and then come back to center. So we're trying to put pressure into your palms at the same time as we're lifting the head up to center. You can either do ear to shoulder or you can rotate it and go chin to shoulder. Chin to shoulder is going to work a different section of the neck. Dropping chin to shoulder is going to get up into the upper portion of the neck more than into the back area. Lift up and lower. So, it's really a good idea to do both sides. So ear to shoulder and chin to shoulder, and that's going to help work both sections of the front of the neck and the back of the neck. So, steps to think about: Sit up nice and tall, hands down the spine; walk those hands down; press the palms into the ball. Link to the neck, sit up tall or dropping chin to shoulder, coming up, and then we're dropping ear to shoulder, and this is how we do side-to-side neck stretches and exercises.

How To Do Side Head Tilts Video

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