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Dr. Andrew Huberman

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2846 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

It's so critical.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

The neck is the upper spine.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And also nowadays, everyone's hunched over in the C-shaped position because we're texting all the time and we're sitting too much.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

But Jeff Cavalier has a great video on how to properly train the neck using a plate in the gym wrapped in a towel.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

How do you do this with the mouth closed, nasal breathing, tongue on the roof of the mouth?

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

There are a lot of things you can do wrong.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

So neck training, I think, has to be approached correctly.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And bridges, according to Jeff, are probably not the best thing because you can slip a disc and it happens in a moment.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

I think neck training is vital.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

I think women shy away from neck training because they don't want a larger neck.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And so I haven't quite figured out the solution yet.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

to hand off to them.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And I'm not, again, I'm not a trainer.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Yeah, you have a properly sized and shaped neck.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

It's just no one would ever do it.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

To me, what you describe for glutes and what you're describing now for essentially any body part,

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

There's a common theme here, which is that short periods of let's say four to six weeks of prioritization, training with muscle three times a week, different movements, perhaps even different rep ranges.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And this is the key thing that I'm taking away from what you said.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And then throttling back on the volume for other muscle groups, not panicking that you're going to lose all your development in these other muscle groups is really what allows you to bring everything up to the more or less same level.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And yet I also agree with the last sentence you said.