Jeff Cavaliere

It's going to be easier for people to start.

And the more things you start to do with external rotation, internal rotation with the arm elevated,

the more challenging it starts to become.

So you progressively move towards movements where you're internally or externally rotating against resistance in a higher and higher arm position.

Yeah, I think that women would be less resistant to the idea of having a stronger neck.

I think as long as we weren't talking about building massive traps along with it, right?

And I think that they think neck and traps because they do feed into each other.

The reason why men who train their neck tend to have a better or much thicker look to their neck, better for men, is that...

they're also in conjunction likely training their traps either directly or indirectly through some of the other movements to do it in a heavy way women who tend to train their neck directly and not focused on building their traps at the same time they're just going to have a stronger neck because they're not necessarily the biggest muscles in here that that grow substantially and again when you look at the proportional growth in muscles from men and women

there's already a difference in how big these muscles will grow, male versus female.

But now in an area where the muscles themselves don't grow to astronomically large proportions, you really aren't going to get that much size in the neck.

And I think women are chronically under-trained when it comes to the neck.

I can't tell you how often that you'll prescribe some kind of an ab routine and

I'm not even thinking about the repercussions on the neck, because for me, it's like it's no strain at all.

But a lot of people will complain, and most often it's women, that just doing the crunch, because I don't want them holding on to their neck and cranking on their neck during a crunch.

They'll say, my neck is hurting.

I can't do that.

I can't do that routine.

It's only hurting because of fatigue, not because their neck is being held in one position and their fingers are just basically touching back there to just keep them away from cranking.

And it's also- That's how you want them, people doing crunches, not cranking, not pushing that.