Forward Head Posture Fix

You do the best that you can to get results from your workouts. You eat well and train hard but you still feel like you are not hitting your peak.

You have a problem with low energy, grogginess, shortage of breath and neck and back pain.

There is a problem that you probably see everyday and affects almost everyone regardless of your age or fitness level.

Forward head posture - texting neck. 

You've probably seen active people with a "chicken head" or "giraffe neck". Their shoulders are hunched forward, their head droops down and they almost have a hump their back is so curved. It is weak and unhealthy and undoes all of the hard work that you put in at the gym.

Your neck is designed to remain vertical, supporting the weight of your skull in a perfect line from the top of your head straight down through your body to your feet.

When you look at yourself in the mirror from the side, your ear, your shoulder and your hips should all be in a straight line down to the floor. If it is unaligned and your ear is in front of your shoulders, it's a sure sign of forward head posture.

You see, the average head weighs 10-12lbs. When your head sits perfectly upon your neck and shoulders, the body naturally adapts to holding this weight.

But if your head is constantly pulled forward, the weight of your head pulls on your neck and puts pressure on your spine.

When your head is pulled forward the additional pressure on your neck, shoulders and back rises dramatically causing serious tissue damage. In fact, every inch your head is thrust forward from its natural position adds another 10 lbs of stress on the neck, shoulders, back and spine.

It’s why you may have developed that ugly ‘hump’ below your neck; to combat the stress of holding your head up, the body’s reaction has been to build-up bone and fat tissue to compensate and protect the spine at the C7 vertebrae.

Forward head posture doesn’t just leave you looking awkward… No matter how hard you train or how well you eat, unless you start fixing your head posture right now, it may not be possible to reverse the damage already done.

Mike Westerdal is a national best-selling fitness author, sports nutrition specialist, personal trainer and Iron Man magazine contributor. He also founded Critical Bench - the longest-standing strength website.

Rick Kaselj specializes in exercise rehabilitation and fitness. He works in one-on-one and group rehabilitation settings, educating and training people who have been injured at work, in car accidents, and during sport activities. He has combined his rehabilitation experience and passion for research to develop a variety of courses and presentations for fitness professionals, Kinesiologists, and healthcare providers. Rick currently works as a lecturer, Kinesiologist, personal trainer, writer of exercise rehabilitation and exercise rehabilitation specialist in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Mike collaborated with Rick Kaselj, an injury specialist and kinesiologist to create this hip flexor program. Mike has used this program successfully to help his wife after the birth of their son and Critical Bench's Head Strength Coach.

The hip flexor program developed by these two professionals utilizes a range of stretches and exercises which are designed to target the hip flexors and unlock your hips and relieve the pain. The program teaches you how to do the exercises and the correct order in which to do the exercises. 

• Exactly how to hit every single key neck muscle with targeted, move-by-move videos of each and every exercise within Rick’s “sequential flow” (Rick has designed a program so simple,clear and effective that it’ll become second nature in no time at all).
• Why untreated forward head posture is like a ticking time bomb for your overall health and why you need to act NOW before the damage becomes irreversible (you really could be days away from causing irreparable harm to your body).
• Why you’re more likely to suffer from texting neck if you work or hang out in any of these “high risk” areas for developing back and neck pain (check this out to make sure your home or workplace isn’t one of these).
• How women can instantly make their chest look bigger and their waist slimmer through this quick head forward posture routine.
• Why some people develop the ugly “Dowager Hump” because of poor posture and what to do about it if you’re already suffering (don’t worry, it can be reversed if you catch it in time).
• How your neck curve is SUPPOSED to look and feel like and how you can start making simple changes to prevent the discs in your neck joints from degenerating further.
• Why forward head posture is probably causing your body, bones and joints to degrade faster than normal and how you can instantly stop the clock on this rapid aging process.
• Why it may be too late to fix the damage to your neck, back and shoulders and exactly what you need to do to discover whether you can turn back your body clock before the damage becomes permanent..