Week one pull up top of spine exercises day five movement. By moving the head in a circle, you can see that the joint has the ability to conduct. Think of this in comparison to the elbow, which is a hinge joint and can only move up and down. Thinking back to the next original design, you can argue that it would be happiest making a vast range of movements such as looking up, down over both shoulders, or moving in a circle. However, if you look at the average person, the head is kept in a stationary forward position. Combine this with leaning the head forward, and you have a good recipe for a tight neck.

When moving the body and its natural design state, the muscles are working in harmony, ie the agonists and antagonists, creating a continual pattern of one muscle relaxing and it's opposing muscle contracting. As mentioned on day three, it is this pattern of contracting and relax That allows movement to take place. Correct movement allows proper use of bones and joints keeping them nourished and lubricated with synovial fluid, which is a viscous fluid found in joints that keeps them nourished and movable. Think back to the arm movement we did earlier on in the week. Patient right hand down by your side, left fingertips on top of the bicep, finger one G. As you can track the bicep, feel it shorten while the opposing muscle the tricep relaxes and lengthens. Move your left fingers around to the back of the our contract the tricep feeling it shorten while the bicep lengthen.

Now contract both bicep and tricep at the same time. Notice that there is no movement. This example is designed to show how in order for movement to take place, one muscle must contract and its opposite must relax. If there is an imbalance in the system, the movement becomes inhibit And join start to become weakened stiff. The head rotation exercise looks simple, but by doing it, you're helping restore balance to the muscles and fluidity to the neck.