Dr. Bret Contreras

Some people, it's their calves.

Some people, it's this.

So can you follow this?

I'm looking at your neck is jacked, but you've trained it for how many years?

I train my neck twice a week.

How many years?

Yeah, because you have a thick neck and there's a study on that.

Because the old adage was just do, you don't need to train your neck.

If you do deadlifts, shrugs, you know, rows, it's going to grow.

No, it doesn't.

The study showed that they had one group doing that, just the deadlifts, the shrugs, the rows, and another group doing...

neck flexion extension, the group doing the deadlifts and shrugs, they grew their traps, but not their neck muscles at all.

If you want to grow the neck muscles, you have to train the neck muscles.

This is just my experience.

So I agree with you.

And it's funny, I have an identical twin brother and he's always like, man, I love your neck is big or I have this little bobble head.

But I don't do neck training, but I think what happens is a lot of people

Like, pull-downs in military press and even, like, bench can irritate people's necks because we flex it.

When I bench, I always want to be here.

When I compete in a powerlifting contest, I had to learn how to keep my head back.